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Steve Schmidt REACTS to Trump's Plans for Russia & Ukraine: "Edge of World War 3"

Steve Schmidt REACTS to Trump's Plans for Russia & Ukraine: "Edge of World War 3"

Released Tuesday, 9th April 2024
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Steve Schmidt REACTS to Trump's Plans for Russia & Ukraine: "Edge of World War 3"

Steve Schmidt REACTS to Trump's Plans for Russia & Ukraine: "Edge of World War 3"

Steve Schmidt REACTS to Trump's Plans for Russia & Ukraine: "Edge of World War 3"

Steve Schmidt REACTS to Trump's Plans for Russia & Ukraine: "Edge of World War 3"

Tuesday, 9th April 2024
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The delicious ice cold taste of Dr. Pepper

0:02

has a lasting effect on people. Lindsay from

0:04

Sacramento said... Pro tip, 40 degrees is the

0:06

perfect temperature for an ice cold Dr. Pepper. Why

0:08

is 40 degrees the perfect temperature for Dr.

0:11

Pepper? We brought in Sue from Duluth, Minnesota to

0:13

tell us. Oh yeah, I know a thing or two

0:15

about cold. Oh, that right there is the

0:17

perfect kind of ice cold for Dr. Pepper. Mmm,

0:20

I'd share that with my friend Nancy. She likes

0:22

Dr. Pepper too, you know. My coldest... Alright, that'll

0:24

be all, Sue. Having a perfect temperature for

0:26

your Dr. Pepper? It's a Pepper thing. Inspired

0:28

by Real Fan posts. who

0:34

idolizes foreign fascists like Vladimir

0:36

Putin. He wants the power

0:38

to execute his opponents. He

0:40

wants the power to kill

0:42

his opponents. This is what

0:45

he admires. His specific fetish

0:48

is for the type of

0:50

power that can do harm,

0:52

that can kill, that can

0:54

do damage. That's why he

0:56

venerates Vladimir Putin. And no

0:58

American president should venerate a

1:00

strong man. A dime store

1:03

Mussolini like Putin who threatens

1:05

the world with nuclear destruction,

1:07

invades his neighbors, and kidnaps

1:09

their children. It

1:11

is disgraceful. This

1:14

is the morning. Donald Trump said

1:16

again this weekend that

1:18

immigration is

1:20

plaguing America because we are

1:23

receiving people from quote-unquote as

1:25

he calls them, shithole

1:27

countries. Of course

1:29

these countries have something in

1:31

common. They are majority minority

1:34

countries. They are countries where

1:36

people have brown eyes,

1:38

black skin, brown skin.

1:41

They are not white, Norwegian,

1:44

blonde, blue eyed.

1:47

And this is not accidental when

1:49

Trump says that why can't

1:51

we have immigration from nice countries. What

1:54

he might as well be saying is why

1:56

can't we have immigration from countries where the

1:58

master race lives? That's what

2:01

he means. So when he

2:03

talks about, to his

2:05

chief of staff, John Kelly, while

2:07

he's supposed to be at a

2:10

World War I battlefield about, well,

2:12

this is all of the good

2:14

stuff that Hitler believed in and

2:16

accomplished and did. This stuff has

2:18

meaning because

2:20

he is a racist of

2:23

the most sinister and

2:25

despicable type. He

2:27

means something very specifically when he means

2:30

the nice countries. What

2:33

he means is pale skinned

2:35

white blue eye. What

2:37

he means is the Aryan

2:39

ideal. No

2:42

joke. He says

2:44

it out loud and we're all numb to

2:46

it. Simple fact of the matter is that

2:48

the country of

2:50

birth that

2:53

has achieved more valor awards

2:57

amongst American soldiers fighting under the

2:59

American flag is Mexico. So

3:04

the contributions to

3:06

the United States of brown

3:09

and black skin people from all

3:11

over the world are monumental. And

3:13

when Trump says what he says

3:16

he degrades that he dehumanizes the

3:19

people that help build the country. The

3:23

Chinese workers, for example, that

3:25

built the transcontinental railroad. It's

3:30

deliberate. It's purposeful. It's nasty.

3:32

It's cruel. And

3:34

it is unbecoming at a

3:36

profound level for any

3:38

person who seeks high political office

3:41

in the United States of America,

3:43

let alone a former president, let

3:45

alone somebody who aspires to sit

3:47

behind the Resolute desk in the

3:49

Oval Office. It is outrageous and

3:52

it must be opposed. It

3:54

must be condemned because it

3:56

is clear what it is. It is the most... obvious

4:00

and odious example of direct

4:03

racism out of the

4:05

mouth of someone in proximity to

4:07

the office of the presidency in

4:10

a hundred years. It

4:14

is a statement that turns the

4:17

clock back literally

4:19

a century. It

4:22

eradicates progress, the idea of

4:24

racial justice. This notion that

4:26

we should all be measured

4:28

on the basis of the

4:30

content of our character. Trump

4:34

is decimating that with these statements.

4:38

It's wrong. It's disgusting.

4:41

It's ugly. American should not tolerate it. It

4:46

debases the

4:49

70 million immigrants who

4:52

were born in other lands that

4:54

came to this country of which they have

4:56

hundreds of millions of descendants of which I

4:59

am one. And most likely that

5:01

you are one. Donald

5:04

Trump's America First Foreign Policy is a

5:06

replica of what the original America First

5:09

Foreign Policy was. It is a policy

5:11

of appeasement. And

5:14

specifically, it is an appeasement of fascism. The

5:19

original American First Foreign

5:21

Policy appeased German

5:24

Nazis, German fascists,

5:26

Italian fascists, Japanese

5:28

fascists, Japanese nationalists,

5:30

Japanese militarists. This

5:35

new America First, this new

5:37

American fascism, appeases Russian fascists.

5:41

Nothing is new. It

5:43

is the same theory. It

5:46

just has a new brand. It's

5:49

just shined up. It's

5:53

now the golden key

5:56

that is the symbol of American fascism. The delicious

5:58

ice Cold. The taste

6:00

of Dr. Pepper has a lasting effect on

6:02

people. Lindsey from Sacramento said protip: Forty degrees

6:05

in the perfect temperature for an icicle? Dr.

6:07

Pepper, Why is Forty Degrees a perfect temperature

6:09

for Dr. Pepper? We brought in Sioux from

6:11

Duluth, Minnesota to Dallas. Yeah, I know

6:13

a thing or two about colds or thats there

6:16

is a perfect said I school for Dr. Pepper.

6:19

Share that with a friend Nancy She likes

6:21

Dr. Pepper to, you know, Michael. Or I

6:23

double the also having a perfect temperature

6:25

for your Doctor Pepper. It's of everything

6:27

inspired by real fan posts. America.

6:31

First. Is.

6:33

It easy American philosophy.

6:36

It. Is the philosophy that looked

6:38

at at off Hitler with

6:40

admiration. It. Is the philosophy

6:43

that said, we should not

6:45

stand with England. It is

6:47

the philosophy of surrender of

6:49

appeasement. It is the philosophy

6:51

that said of Fascism that

6:53

said of human slavery that

6:56

this is something to be

6:58

admired. It is

7:00

the most wrong in the

7:02

air and political philosophy in

7:04

the most immoral in all

7:06

of American history. The

7:09

America First movement was

7:11

the. Committee. Of the

7:13

boomed. Nazi

7:16

sympathizers. To.

7:18

Despicable Movements. Any idea

7:21

that it's been rehabilitated

7:23

Ended twenty twenties. In.

7:26

The Twenty First Century. As if none

7:28

of the lessons of the Second World

7:30

War apply. That. None of the

7:32

dangers of appeasement. None of those

7:34

lessons were learned. It is in

7:36

astonishment of the eight. But.

7:38

The original America First

7:40

Movement was on American.

7:42

This America First Movement

7:45

is on American. That

7:47

America First Movement coddled

7:49

a foreign dictator who

7:51

hated humanity. This

7:53

America First movement cobbles a

7:55

foreign dictator who hates humanity.

7:58

That America. first movement,

8:00

appeased a foreign dictator who

8:02

invaded a neighboring country

8:05

and said

8:07

that the aggression was necessary because

8:11

the peaceful neighbor was in fact

8:13

the aggressor. Today's America

8:15

First has an

8:18

identical enthrallment to the

8:20

Russian dictator who's doing the

8:22

exact same thing. So

8:25

the philosophy is dangerous. It is ugly

8:27

and it is clear what it is.

8:29

It is clear what it

8:32

was then. It is clear what

8:34

it is today. It is a

8:36

philosophy of appeasement. And

8:39

Donald Trump is an American

8:41

fascist who idolizes foreign

8:43

fascists like Vladimir Putin. He wants

8:46

the power to execute his opponents.

8:48

He wants the power to kill

8:51

his opponents. This is what he

8:53

admires. He doesn't look at the

8:55

French president, the British president, the

8:58

Estonian prime minister, and look at

9:00

people and say I share their

9:03

values. I have a commitment to

9:05

human freedom, dignity, and liberty. The

9:08

only thing he cares about

9:10

is the idea of power,

9:12

of strength, and his specific

9:16

fetish is for the type

9:18

of power that can do

9:20

harm, that can kill, that

9:22

can do damage. That's why

9:24

he venerates Vladimir Putin and

9:26

no American president should venerate

9:28

a strong man, a dime

9:31

store Mussolini like Putin who

9:33

threatens the world with nuclear

9:35

destruction, invades his neighbors, and

9:37

kidnaps their children. It

9:40

is disgraceful. The Russian

9:42

war has been costly for the Russian people.

9:44

There are more than 500,000 casualties and there

9:46

are nearly 50,000 Ukrainian casualties. It

9:52

is not the job of the former

9:54

president of the United States to suggest

9:56

what the Ukrainian people are supposed to

9:59

give away. of their

10:01

land, of their history, of

10:03

their territory to appease the

10:06

invader after so much sacrifice.

10:08

It's not the job of the

10:10

American president to say, you must,

10:14

as if Ukraine is a

10:16

latter-day Czechoslovakia sold out, where

10:19

the Czechoslovakians were not even allowed

10:21

into the room with Delade, with

10:23

Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, when

10:26

the future of a nation was

10:28

decided without anyone from that country

10:30

in the room. It

10:33

remains one of the most dishonorable

10:35

and despicable chapters in all of

10:37

human history. It is

10:39

the great betrayal of the democracies

10:41

to any small country, and it

10:44

can never be repeated again. And

10:46

it must never be

10:48

something that an American participates in.

10:52

The United States of America

10:54

must arm the Ukrainian people

10:56

and help them fight with

10:59

the weapons they need for

11:01

as long as they are

11:03

able and willing to fight

11:05

against the Russian aggression. Because

11:07

for as long as they

11:09

fight, and as successfully as

11:11

they hold the Russians back,

11:15

it means Russia will not be

11:17

able to swallow Europe, and that World

11:19

War III will be postponed. We

11:22

live at the edge of a

11:24

dangerous hour, a dangerous new epoch.

11:28

We live at the edge of

11:30

a new world war, and

11:32

it's time that we start talking about it. It's

11:35

time to start seeing it, because

11:38

what's coming is clear. The

11:41

winds are blowing.

11:44

A great violence has

11:47

been unleashed in Ukraine, and no

11:49

American president should say to the

11:51

Ukrainian people that it's

11:53

time for you to surrender, because

11:58

we don't have the right. It's

12:02

shameful. We

12:04

must stand with these people. We

12:06

must stand with them and arm

12:08

them until the end. And

12:11

if we don't, and if

12:13

they fail, this war will spread.

12:16

And it will endanger millions

12:19

of American lives. Thank

12:21

you for listening to my political

12:23

commentary. If you like what

12:25

you heard today, please also

12:27

consider subscribing to the warning.

12:30

Daily The

12:33

delicious ice cold taste of Dr. Pepper has

12:35

a lasting effect on people. Lindsay from Sacramento

12:37

said... Pro tip, 40 degrees is the perfect

12:39

temperature for an ice cold Dr. Pepper. Why

12:41

is 40 degrees the perfect temperature for Dr.

12:43

Pepper? We brought in Sue from Duluth, Minnesota to

12:46

tell us. Oh yeah, I know a thing or two

12:48

about cold. Oh, that right there is the

12:50

perfect kind of ice cold for Dr. Pepper. Mmm,

12:52

I'd share that with my friend Nancy. She likes

12:55

Dr. Pepper too, you know. My coldest... Alright, that'll

12:57

be all, Sue. Having a perfect temperature for

12:59

your Dr. Pepper? It's a Pepper thing. Inspired

13:01

by Real Fan posts.

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