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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Who Is Donald Trump?

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of his speech at the Republican National Convention, Steve Schmidt examines exactly who and what Donald Trump stands for and how that will impact the country if he gets elected. To become a The Warning Premium Member and listen to the show 48 hours early with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/ Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0

It is July the 18th, 2024, and the number of the day is 32. There are 32 short days left for the

0:09.4

Democratic Party and the President of the United States to avert a national catastrophe.

0:15.2

This is the warning. We have come as a nation to a fork in the road, but at the head of the column is the leadership

0:26.8

of the Democratic Party. Soon we will know something with perfect clarity. There is a question

0:34.2

in the air, and the question is what is Trump?

0:38.9

Is he who the Democrats have maintained he is?

0:43.4

Or is he just an effective villain, a Freddie Kruger comical character that has been effective

0:51.0

at raising money from and mobilizing the base. Is he someone who is a perfect foil?

0:58.0

Who is Trump? Is he a danger or is he a prop? The hour at hand to decide is now, and soon we will know.

1:10.0

Joe Biden should be taken at his word. He has long

1:14.8

maintained that Donald Trump is an existential threat. But something else must be said. It was Joe Biden

1:22.0

and his team of Custers that wanted the debate that imploded his campaign. It was also their idea to so

1:31.2

rig and throttle the democratic primary process that there could be no conceivable competition.

1:37.8

Let's be clear about something. Donald Trump will not have a lonely victory. He will have with him a MAGA United States Senate and a MAGA

1:48.4

House of Representatives. And they will have two unfettered years to change America, to recast and to

1:57.3

remake it. J.D. Vance offered a sweetener, an aphrodisiac, if you will, like a cult leader,

2:06.4

offering a sample of love to the lonely and distressed. He kept the hideous parts quiet.

2:13.2

When he talked about the graves of seven generations, part of a nation, what he's talking about

2:20.5

is blood and soil nationalism, and it's an evil. And it's antithetical to the ideals and ideas of the

2:31.4

United States. What J.D. Vance talked about last night sounds reasonable,

2:38.0

sounds appealing, but it is a mask for the darkest and most dangerous of all ideologies,

2:46.7

us versus them, the ideology and dogma of nationalism. J.D. Vance put his toe into the water,

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