Trump Using Fear Tactics to Take Over D.C.
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the warning. |
| 0:02.0 | The American people and the whole world witnessed a titanic lie. |
| 0:07.0 | I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was, |
| 0:15.0 | with graffiti all over the walls. It's another part of it, by the way. |
| 0:20.0 | Because we're talking about safety, |
| 0:21.4 | but we're also talking about beautification. We're the most beautiful potentially capital in the world. |
| 0:25.8 | We always had. But people come from Iowa, they come from Indiana, they come and then they |
| 0:31.4 | get mugged. Not going to happen. Keep coming because within, by the time you get your trip |
| 0:36.2 | set, it's going to be safe again, and it's going to be clean very quickly. |
| 0:40.3 | President of the United States stood flank by the Attorney General and the Defense Secretary and said that the capital city of the United States was a dystopian hellscape. |
| 0:50.3 | It was besieged by roving youth gangs. And what was required was the calling out of the |
| 0:57.5 | army. And so Donald Trump made the announcement, flanked on the one side by his attorney general |
| 1:03.1 | and on the other side by his defense secretary. And that was deliberate because what he was saying |
| 1:09.2 | was that in America, the military doesn't serve the nation or the Constitution or the people, but the whims of a man. |
| 1:18.1 | And it is an instrument of his personal power. |
| 1:20.8 | And on the other side was the woman deeply implicated in the cover up of Jeffrey Epstein, |
| 1:26.8 | co-playing in a new role as head of the DC Homicide Task Force. |
| 1:32.0 | Let me be crystal clear. Crime in DC is ending and ending today. |
| 1:36.1 | We are going to use every power we have to fight criminals here. |
| 1:40.5 | President, thank you for caring about our capital. |
| 1:43.7 | Families come here every summer. |
| 1:46.4 | Our museums are free. We have the National Zoo. We have the National Gallery. D.C. should |
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