0:00

Rudolph Giuliani turned

0:02

out to be a Titanic fraud. That's

0:05

on him. Mark Meadows turned out to

0:07

be a fraud, and that's on him.

0:10

Boris Epstein turned out to be a

0:12

fraud, and that's on him. All of

0:14

the Trump detritus, all of them have

0:17

done damage to this country. And now

0:19

it's up to us to say enough

0:21

to end this madness, to

0:24

repudiate it. It's not

0:26

enough for President Biden to

0:28

win in November. He must

0:31

win decisively. He must win

0:33

decisively so this madness can

0:36

end permanently. It

0:38

is time to bury this

0:41

toxic poison back

0:43

under the deep ground and cork

0:45

it with concrete. It is

0:48

the 25th of April, and there are 194

0:50

days left until

0:53

the American people will decide between

0:55

President Biden and

0:58

the accused felon, Donald Trump, who

1:00

will sit behind the Resolute Desk

1:02

and command the most powerful nuclear

1:05

arsenal in world history, Joe

1:07

Biden or this

1:09

man, the Sleepy Don, an

1:12

indicted criminal who cannot stay awake

1:14

for his trial, who rages and

1:16

seeds, who intimidates, who tweets through

1:18

the night, who is losing control.

1:20

A great question is at hand.

1:23

Will the American people measure up? Soon

1:25

we'll know. This is the warning.

1:31

Another day, more indictments.

1:33

This time from the state of Arizona,

1:36

leading the docket in the dock,

1:39

once again, the disgraced

1:42

and bankrupt former America's

1:45

mayor, Rudolph W.

1:47

Giuliani. There is no

1:49

person across

1:51

American history with the possible

1:54

exception of Benedict Arnold, who

1:57

has had a greater fall. that

2:00

was once widely admired across all

2:02

of America. It is now

2:05

a laughingstock. Rudolph Julian

2:08

is a degenerate, a

2:10

liar, a hypocrite, and

2:13

a stooge. His entire life's work

2:15

was undone by his

2:18

fantastical ego, which is also a

2:20

brittle one. This man, a former

2:22

mayor of New York City, became

2:25

Donald Trump's valet, his

2:28

handmaid. He served him in every

2:30

way imaginable until it led to

2:33

his ruin, along with the former

2:35

White House Chief of Staff

2:37

Mark Meadows, another lying conniver

2:39

who was a vandal for

2:41

every single day that he

2:43

served in the United States

2:45

Congress. He got to Washington

2:48

and did everything he could

2:50

to hurt America for the

2:52

purposes of making himself famous.

2:54

He knew that if he could

2:56

be a big enough demagogue, he could get all

2:58

the way to the top, and Mark Meadows made

3:00

it to the White House into

3:03

the Oval Office. This man

3:05

with no principle, no judgment,

3:07

low intellect, had

3:09

access to the nation's most closely

3:11

guarded secrets. When you

3:14

think about our national decay and

3:16

you think about the collapse

3:19

of probity, rectitude, and morality

3:21

and decency, it

3:23

is astonishing. Mark

3:27

Meadows is the

3:29

exact polar opposite of

3:31

a man named Andy Card, who served

3:34

with honor as George

3:36

W. Bush's White House Chief of Staff.

3:39

Mark Meadows managed

3:41

even to exceed the

3:43

scum-faggery and criminality of

3:45

H.R. Haldeman, who was probably

3:48

the worst White House Chief of Staff in

3:50

history, until

3:52

Meadows. And

3:55

now Mr. Meadows will have his day

3:57

in court, along with another Trump signal.

4:00

a fan for a reception.

4:03

All of this has been

4:05

a fantastical fraud. When our progeny

4:07

looked back on this era, what

4:11

will they say about us? That

4:13

we permitted a man to

4:16

take political power who

4:20

ran a fake university

4:23

and a tangle

4:25

of fraudulent charities,

4:30

who lied over and

4:32

over again, who is

4:34

recorded on tape pretending

4:36

to be a

4:40

PR spokesperson named John

4:42

Barron talking

4:44

about the virtues of Donald

4:46

Trump. This

4:51

creature from

4:53

Queens, that

4:55

he has become the dominant

4:57

figure in American society, is

5:00

an indictment of

5:02

the nation and its character in this

5:05

moment. It can be no other way.

5:09

And the country has to

5:11

understand that all of

5:13

us have an obligation to be

5:15

involved in the renewal of

5:18

the country and a recovery

5:21

from this moment. That

5:23

we go on a voyage

5:26

together in search

5:28

of something better than

5:31

this low man and this

5:35

low crowd of

5:37

people. Look at Ted Cruz.

5:40

Look at the change in

5:42

appearance of Ted Cruz. Let's look

5:44

at some pictures. Pictures of decrepitude

5:47

and decay. A sloth.

5:49

Let's look at Joe Biden in 2016.

5:52

Look at him

5:55

today. Yeah, he's older, but

5:58

he looks the same. He's

6:01

more decayed, more bloated, more crazy

6:03

looking today, but he too looks

6:05

largely the same, doesn't he? Look

6:08

at Ted Cruz. If you're a Texas

6:10

voter, you appreciate why Ted Cruz looks

6:12

like this. You understand why Ted Cruz

6:15

doesn't have morning events. You

6:17

understand why this hollow man

6:20

with no character has changed

6:22

so profoundly in Washington, right?

6:25

This low man ran away from

6:27

his responsibilities to Cancun. He

6:30

won't defend his wife from

6:32

the viciousness of a bully's

6:35

attacks. He won't defend his father.

6:37

It turns out the entire

6:39

Trump enterprise is just an

6:42

incandescent fraud from top to

6:44

bottom. The

6:47

absurd allegation that Raphael

6:49

Cruz was involved in the

6:51

Kennedy assassination completely made up.

6:55

Part of the conspiracy of lies that has

6:57

gone on for nine years that

7:00

is intimidated, struck fear into

7:02

the hearts of cowards like

7:04

Cruz, like Josh Hawley, another

7:07

hollow man who incited an

7:09

insurrection and then hid

7:11

in a closet. Meadows,

7:14

Epstein, Trump,

7:17

Steve Bannon, Stephen

7:20

Miller, Sidney

7:22

Powell. Mike

7:24

Lindell, Matt

7:27

Schlapp, the

7:29

Nazi Nick Fuentes. These

7:32

are some of the lowest and

7:35

most despicable people in

7:37

the country. Yet

7:40

they somehow have managed to amass

7:43

tremendous power, tremendous

7:46

resources, and

7:48

they have an agenda. And

7:51

their agenda is fundamentally

7:54

to transform the

7:56

character of the American government

7:58

from one where people

8:01

serve imperfectly an idea,

8:07

the country under

8:10

an oath to the

8:12

Constitution. What they want to do is

8:14

replace that with an oath to Trump.

8:16

This is the core meaning of Project

8:18

2025. This

8:21

is the aspiration of people

8:24

who wish to take power by

8:26

any means necessary, and who have

8:28

already indicated that unless they win,

8:31

they will challenge the result of the

8:33

election. They will claim that it was

8:35

stolen, and they will use violence if

8:37

they must to take power. The

8:41

argument is clear. They

8:43

disdain democracy, and

8:48

they're becoming less and

8:50

less shy about saying it

8:52

out loud. Unlike

8:56

the MAGA movement, when

8:58

I talk about they and

9:01

I talk about them, I'm

9:03

specific. I'm

9:05

talking about Trump, and

9:08

I'm talking about Tucker Carlson, and

9:11

I'm talking about the Legion of

9:14

Useful Idiots, who

9:16

service Vladimir Putin by spreading

9:18

his propaganda all over the

9:21

United States, poisoning the minds

9:23

of the American people. I'm

9:28

talking about the Republican

9:31

members of Congress who were involved

9:33

in a conspiracy of lives, who

9:37

used their power as committee

9:39

chairman to defame the president of

9:41

the United States, who

9:43

used their power abusing the

9:46

process of government over

9:48

and over again. This

9:52

moment in time in America, 194 days, is perfectly clear.

9:56

There is a manifest threat

9:58

at hand. And

10:01

that threat is sitting in a Manhattan

10:04

courtroom surrounded by a

10:06

phalanx of unprincipled men like

10:08

Josh Hawley and Ted

10:10

Cruz and many more.

10:13

And there's another type of jury. There's

10:17

a political jury, if you will. And

10:20

our trial is an election.

10:22

And it is time to

10:25

make a judgment in the country. About

10:28

a whole horde of

10:31

people, of cohort, that

10:34

lacks principle and conviction

10:36

in any integrity whatsoever

10:38

that does not care

10:40

about ordinary people. Remove

10:44

them from power. We

10:47

can do this. It is

10:49

our birthright. The

10:52

failure to do so will

10:54

have profound consequences. Our

10:57

politics will grow more violent. It

10:59

will grow more extreme. And

11:03

the global security situation will

11:06

continue to deteriorate. I

11:10

spent a Passover Seder with

11:12

a young couple who had

11:14

just immigrated to Canada. She

11:18

was from Belarus. He was from Ukraine. They

11:20

came from Israel. It's

11:23

their second war. They're

11:26

no different than Americans,

11:29

except for the fact that

11:33

they have not had the

11:35

opportunities to live in

11:37

peace and freedom that we take for

11:39

granted. There

11:43

is a simple truth. There

11:46

are two major wars underway in the world,

11:48

one in the Middle East and one in

11:50

Europe. And

11:52

they will draw an extra-ably closer

11:55

to American shores if

11:57

this MAGA movement regains political.

12:00

political power and begins

12:02

what will become the age and

12:04

era of the dictator. Only this

12:06

time, the person in

12:08

the White House won't be Franklin Roosevelt. It

12:10

will be a person on the side of

12:12

the dictator. And

12:15

in four years' time, his capacity

12:17

to do real chaos should

12:20

be indisputable. Donald

12:23

Trump is promising us

12:25

a police state where millions

12:28

will be locked up, put

12:30

into camps awaiting deportation.

12:33

Think this through. What

12:35

does that look like? Does

12:37

it mean checkpoints on your block, on your

12:39

street, at your corner? Papers,

12:42

please. On the train,

12:44

at the grocery store. Is

12:47

this what we want? Do

12:49

we want big government like that?

12:51

Do we want government peering in

12:53

the window, sitting in the confessional,

12:55

with us in the delivery room,

12:57

with us from cradle to grave?

13:01

This is not what free people want. This

13:04

is not what Americans have ever

13:06

wanted. And yet

13:09

it is the proposition at hand offered

13:11

by the MAGA extremists under

13:13

the banner of the oldest

13:16

lie there is, which is

13:18

trust us. Give

13:20

us power, and we'll

13:22

fix all the problems. We'll

13:25

take away all the complexity and make

13:27

things simple again. We'll

13:30

make everything great and good and

13:32

pure again. You

13:36

see, all of the

13:38

problems can be fixed if

13:41

we just point out who's to blame. And

13:43

the thing that the people to

13:46

blame always have in common is how

13:48

few in number they actually are. And

13:53

yet history teaches

13:55

us over and over again the

13:57

demagogue will use they in

13:59

the Them. To.

14:02

Rally a community of.

14:04

Us is. Against.

14:09

The. Days and name's. Against

14:11

a threat. In

14:14

History teaches us. When. Somebody

14:16

promising punishment, a persecution takes

14:18

office and political power. There

14:20

has never been an instance

14:22

where they have not followed

14:24

through on it. Ever.

14:30

And so. How

14:32

is it. That

14:35

we have arrived at the edge of

14:37

an abyss. With. A

14:39

lie in the truth stands

14:41

people in the public square

14:44

where presidential candidate is promising

14:46

a police state promising to

14:48

harass and punish descent, promising

14:51

to arrest political opponents, promising

14:53

mass deportation camps. How have

14:55

we gotten year. We

15:00

know become tower and. Of

15:03

what is intolerable. And.

15:06

It is time. To. Say up

15:08

to the danger. Before. It

15:10

is too late. Rudolph Giuliani.

15:13

Turned out to be a Titanic

15:15

fraud that's on him. Mark Meadows

15:17

turned out to be a fraud.

15:20

And. That's on him. Worse. I've

15:22

seen turned out to be a fraud

15:24

and that's on him. All of the

15:26

trump detritus, all of them. Have

15:29

done damage to this country A now

15:32

it's up to us to say enough

15:34

to end this madness to repudiate it.

15:37

It's not enough for President

15:40

Biden to win in November.

15:42

He must win decisively. He

15:45

must win decisively So this

15:47

madness can and. Permanently.

15:51

It is time to bury.

15:54

This toxic. Waste.

15:56

and back under the deep

15:58

grounds eight to quirk it

16:01

with concrete, to hate, to

16:03

division, to demagoguery, to

16:06

nationalism, to jingoism, the

16:08

venom. Nine

16:11

years of time has been wasted

16:13

when America could have been building,

16:16

unifying, making progress in so

16:18

many areas. Instead, we have

16:20

become the captives and hostages

16:22

of the lowest man to

16:25

ever walk amongst us, who

16:27

was given the highest honor

16:29

that could be given and

16:31

desecrated it as if

16:33

he pissed on it like the

16:36

protesters did, the floor of the

16:38

House of Representatives and U.S. Senate,

16:41

except they weren't protesters, were they?

16:45

They were insurrectionists and

16:48

criminals and traitors who

16:51

carried the Confederate flag through

16:53

the rotunda of the Capitol

16:55

160 years after the Battle

16:57

of Gettysburg. Finally,

17:01

penetrating the citadel of democracy,

17:05

wrecking the peaceful transfer of

17:08

power, desecrating

17:12

the high ideas and ideals of the

17:14

country through criminal

17:16

acts of violence

17:18

and mayhem and murder, all

17:21

of it incited by a selfish

17:23

old man who can't stay awake

17:26

in a quirk. It

17:28

is an incredible hour in this country, but

17:30

it's time to end it. This

17:32

is The Warning. I'm

17:36

Steve Schmidt. This is The Warning, and

17:38

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