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While the world celebrates Easter, Trump took the holiday as an opportunity to insult his opposition. Steve Schmidt looks at Trump's Easter message as well as J.D. Vance's disastrous meeting with Pope Francis.
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It is Monday, April 21st, and the American crisis rages on
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This is the warning. These are the words from America's sick and demented commander-in-chief
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on the day the world's Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ
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a messenger of peace that they believe is the Son of God
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Even during his 12-year reign, Adolf Hitler never once released anything so sick as this on Easter Sunday
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It is a harbinger of catastrophe. It should surprise nobody that Pete Hegseth is a moral disaster, a policy disaster
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and a pile of incompetent dog shit piled higher than the fallen World Trade Center
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His reign at the Pentagon is a national disgrace, and it's a danger to every private, every corporal, every enlisted sergeant in the Marine Corps, in the Army, across all of our uniformed services
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There has never been a defense chief appointed by a disgraceful commander in chief as unfit as Pete Hegseth, who once again has shared military operational plans, combat actions on unclassified emails with family members, including his third wife, the former Fox News producer
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Truly, there are no words, except for the Republican MAGA senators will go on television and say, we trust Trump
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If Trump trusts Pete Hegseth, hail Trump, hail Musk. If it's raining outside and Donald says it's sunny, it's sunny
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It doesn't matter what's real anymore. It doesn't matter what's up or down or red or blue or left or right
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None of that matters. For these sheep, all that matters is being told what to obey, and they will
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They care nothing for their country. They care nothing for its ideas, nothing for its ideals
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They are assaulting it. The desecrations raged this weekend. What a sick moment in the Vatican when the 87 year old pontiff makes a hostage video
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with the American fascist J.D. Vance. I know you not been feeling great but it good to see you and you better health Grazie padre Grazie grazie
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The fascists have come to the Vatican before. It was most surprising to see the Holy Father greet one
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At least he sent his number two to deliver a lecture on compassion
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Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office and showed the American people a doctor photograph of a Maryland father who's in an El Salvadoran gulag
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While the El Salvadoran dictator taunted the American people, taunted the American Constitution
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All of this happening while, of course, Donald Trump's peace plans in Ukraine are a joke
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His negotiations with Iran making the world more dangerous. All of his promises falling apart, America growing weaker, and the economy crashing
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90 days of Donald Trump has transformed America. We now have a daily Reichstag fire
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And within that fire, within that flames, comes the argument that some of us are coming for a very long time
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Which is this, the emergency is so great, we must abandon the Constitution
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We must abandon the idea of a jury trial or due process or the notion that somebody gets to stand in front of a judge and the government must lay out evidence
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No, the emergency is too great and King Donald needs the power to fix it
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in this, the 250th anniversary year of the birth of the United States
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The saddest thing about all of this is reading the stories about the abused people who voted for this monster
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People in West Virginia, sitting in some of the poorest places in the country
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being abused by Robert Kennedy, being abused by the lies, being abused by Trump's insanity
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and what little they have will all be gone by the time this ends
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And they will suffer the most, like always. The people closest to Trump, the ones that trusted him
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are always the ones that are screwed first in all dealings with this silly, vain, toxic, narcissistic man
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that 49.9% of the American voters yoked this nation to. And what Donald Trump is doing is poisoning the cornerstones of our society
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He attacking the universities because fascists attack the places where independent thinkers and writers gather He attacking the artists because fascists attack art they don like
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They call it degenerate. That was the name the Nazis used. And make no mistake, Donald Trump is a Nazi
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And if you don't understand that, well, you just need to read more about the Nazis
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because his Easter message is a message from a Nazi. Donald Trump is attacking dissent
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Donald Trump is attacking his opponents. He's threatening to jail them. He claims the right
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to open concentration camps in foreign countries and to send Americans there. And he is backed up
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by a snarling, sneering, menacing cabinet of idiots and fools. Christy Noem is a mental patient
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And so is Pam Bondi. And so is Kash Pateau. And so are all of these people. And their miseries
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together will compound and will come for all of us. Have no doubt about that. The Democratic Party
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is the second biggest political party in the country. The opposition party. We don't have a
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third party in America, not yet. But we may well need one before all of this is through to stand up
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and fight. We have governors who hide behind folders. We have incoherent former VP nominees
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We have gadfly governors in California, and we have few straight talkers in leadership anywhere
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But all hope is not lost. I interviewed Congressman Jake Auchincloss. He has it together
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Somebody should explain to me why the person who gave this answer isn't a top-tier presidential
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candidate on the list of mostly celebrities and mostly people who got in line with the great
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gaslighting of 2024. Freedom in the United States means that if your feet are on American soil
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you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state
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and put forward the facts of the matter and trust in the impartial application of the law
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That is freedom. And President Trump is attacking the freedom of this man. And now he is promising
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to do it for American citizens. He calls it homegrown. Another word for that is citizen
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He is threatening to do that for American citizens next. This is all of our problem. This next month of May is going to be a brutally and excruciatingly difficult one in America
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It will preface the first summer of Trump second term which will be a summer of chaos and protest as he stokes and incites violence all across the country What going to happen is terrible because the American people let the wolf through the gate And now that wolf
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is at the door and he's claiming things that he has no right to claim. And he's set to use power
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that he has no right to use. And when he does, one of the greatest challenges, greatest contests
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and greatest crises in the history of the United States will be fully underway
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It will be the result of an act of attempted suicide by the lot of us
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80 years after our grandparents saved the world. Within living memory of the death camps, the United States has become unmoored
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The United States elected a demagogue, a liar, a conman, a fraud
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They elected an evil man. And soon I will be coming back to the United States
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And I want Donald Trump to know directly from me, I want his regime to know
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that when I cross the border of my country, I will cross it with the deepest contempt in my heart for him
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And the ideas that I hold in my head and in my conscience will be those of liberty
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They will be those that hold that all of us are created equal and endowed by a creator with inalienable rights
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Among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that we bow to no king and that Donald Trump is certainly not one
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and that his cabinet of fools and criminals and self-interested whack jobs
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is the greatest desecration to descend on the United States in its entire history
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He has assembled a team of scumbags without compare. And I dare you to impede my crossing back into the United States
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and question me about my antipathy for the scumbag, every one of you sons of es would get down on your knees and lick his boots if he told you so
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which is about as un-American a thing as a person can do
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You are weak. You are disgraceful. And history will hold you in ignominy
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This is The Warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is The Warning. I invite you to join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt, and direct about what is happening in this country
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