Trump's Cabinet Nominees Are An Embarrassment To Americans
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is January 16th, 2025. |
| 0:03.0 | There are four days left until Donald Trump swears the oath that makes him, |
| 0:09.0 | Commander-in-Chief, head of state, president of the United States. |
| 0:13.0 | This is the warning. |
| 0:16.0 | His henchmen are gathering. |
| 0:18.0 | They're being questioned, and every one of them will make it through because of the |
| 0:22.9 | impotence of this man, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader who is not up to this task in any way, |
| 0:30.9 | shape, or form. In fact, his services, the Democratic minority leader, is preposterous. He is the worst political strategist, |
| 0:40.1 | the worst political tactician, and the worst communicator in the modern age to hold the job. |
| 0:46.8 | He is as overmatched and as in over his head as Pete Hegeseth will be at the Pentagon. |
| 0:54.0 | No Democratic leader should allow this |
| 0:57.1 | nomination to go forward without going to the mattresses. Pete Hegeseth is a moral abomination. |
| 1:04.8 | The petulence, the sneering, and the contempt by these nominees for the United States Senate is staggering. There was this |
| 1:14.1 | extraordinary moment in the hearing when Senator Elizabeth Warren makes the point Pete Hegseth |
| 1:20.7 | refused to meet with her. You and I agree on the corrosive effects of the revolving door |
| 1:27.0 | between the Pentagon and defense contractors. |
| 1:30.1 | It's something I would have liked to talk to with you about if you'd come and been willing to |
| 1:34.1 | visit with me. |
| 1:35.6 | She is the elected representative of the people of Massachusetts. |
| 1:41.1 | And lest anybody forget, history 101, no Massachusetts, no America. Elizabeth Warren is a United |
| 1:49.8 | State Senator. And here is how this is supposed to work. It's how it worked when John McCain |
| 1:55.4 | was the chairman. Roger Wicker, and let's be clear, is as big a joke as is Pete Hegsa. |
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