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This Is How Blue Wave Dems Must Humiliate Trump

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This Is How Blue Wave Dems Must Humiliate Trump

Americans living abroad can legally vote in U.S. elections and should act now through votefromabroad.org to request a ballot. The Democratic Party faces a pivotal moment in the midterms, with a growing mandate to reject corruption, especially tied to Donald Trump’s leadership. Steve Schmidt, a leading voice of moral clarity, calls for immediate action: ending ties with Chuck Schumer, launching impeachment inquiries, and enforcing constitutional checks on the executive branch. Central issues include military overreach, war profiteering, and the exploitation of allies, with evidence of Trump’s children engaging in risky, unethical behavior, including ties to Russian entities. The narrative emphasizes that voters are rejecting Trump’s lies and incompetence, not due to ignorance, but because of widespread evidence of corruption and failure. Democrats must communicate truthfully, avoid blame, and focus on restoring integrity. A significant political realignment is expected, with strong performances in states like Kansas, Ohio, and Louisiana, driven by public outrage and a surge in independent and Democratic turnout. The message is clear: the people are voting not to compromise, but to stop the erosion of democracy and restore accountability. This shift signals a historic reckoning, with long-term consequences for the military, economy, and international standing, ensuring that no one, not even the president’s allies, is above the law.

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Hey friends Americans living abroad can legally vote in the U.S. election register or get tailored support at votefromabroad.org Look state deadlines are super close so don't waste another second go to votefromabroad.org now and click "request my ballot" Ask to receive it by email all you got to do is fill it out and send it back in Don't miss this chance to shape the future don't delay votefromabroad.org Democrats need to use the full power of the Constitution that has given them the Article 1 branch of government. Every corrupt deal, every email, every correspondence between Tim Cook and someone in the West Wing go get it. Mark Zuckerberg, time for accountability, some poor Democrats to realize nobody is voting for them to go up there and work with Donald Trump and find bipartisan common ground. What we're voting for them to do is to make this stop, make it stop. Welcome to the Daily Beast podcast and Hidokite. I'm Executive Editor of the Daily Beast. I'm filling in for Joanna Coles. Don't worry she will be back on the next episode of Inside Front's Head. We have got a fantastic guest to speak to today. Steve Schmidt, he is of course a John McCain's former campaign manager but now far more significant role I think than that. He runs Save America and he is a voice of reason and of absolute moral clarity and opposition to Donald Trump. Before we get into that conversation, please join our community, hit that subscribe button, give us a like. The ability to bring you people like Steve Schmidt is because of the support of you. Our subscribers, you keep us independent and not part of that sub-time media that we see in DC all too often. Steve Schmidt, a voice of moral clarity. Thank you for joining us. There are so many topics that we could be talking about. We are in, I think the beginnings of the final race to the midterms, we're past the 50-day mark and things are moving rapidly. But I just wanted to start with a quite remarkable story that's come out about JD Vance, a man who I know that you have as part of the Save America pack have targeted before. And I suspect Mike Target again, it turns out that in 2016 he was briefing the Hillary Clinton campaign on how to defeat Trump. What does that tell us about the character of JD Vance? He has not. He's a person of the lowest and most despicable character who seeks power and will do anything to get it. His entire public service should be understood as a corrupt act that you have Peter Keel putting $40 million into this. By the way, you had one of the most exceptional Democratic candidates of a generation, Tim Ryan, who ran against JD Vance and was abandoned by Chuck Schumer. Republicans spent in excess of $60 million. National Democrats spent nothing on Ryan. But they spent tens of millions of dollars on Federman next door. Two years after Ryan loses by five points when the top of the ticket goes down by 27, when he was ahead in August, Chuck Schumer spends tens of millions of dollars losing the Sherrod Brown race, as if they're disconnected from one another. As if an investment would have not had an impact two years later. So the story of JD Vance, the beneficence of Peter Keel, his comfort with the extremism, his wife's comfort with the extremism, speaks at a brokenness of our politics. And frankly, when you watch the Sunday shows, a complete inability for most every single interviewer to cut to the core of what his derangements into formities are in his character, observe them, query them, challenge those answers and expose him for the danger he is, to this Republican, marked by words, he is a dangerous man. He is the archetype written about by Dorothy Thompson in her, who goes Nazi piece, the aggrieved, embittered striver at an Ivy League school who's never quite accepted, always the guy who, you know, with his couch, the weirdo looking from the outside in, and he's angry about it. This a dangerous, unprincipled guy should never, ever hold the position that he holds, but unfortunately for the country, he was picked by the president's corrupt son, whose wedding was just paid for by a Russian hologark, right, to bring it full soon. Well, and I wanted to talk to you about this, this incredible situation, where a Russian hologark is on the one hand in the, getting the order of friendship from Vladimir Putin. And on the other, bestowing his own order of friendship on Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson, this Umar Kremlin is a remarkable character in his own right, but here we have Donald Trump Jr. Partying with Russians, he was surrounded by his own secret service, I mean, you've, you've been around the secret service, and your time in politics, the security implications seem crazy, the moral implications seem absolutely unspeakable. I'm old enough to remember when I was a little kid, the ethical screams, my first ethical screams, right, that I can remember in American politics around Billy Beer, right, Jimmy Carter's brother's beer brand, right, we've come a long way. We have, we have Russians close into the war criminal of Vladimir Putin, paying for the war profiteer, drone contractor, bitcoin magnate, Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding, while his ex-fiancé is off desecrating the country in Greece, it is incredible. And it's intolerable. And he's running around like his name is Uday, not Donald Jr. and it's unacceptable in the United States, and this has to be investigated, there has to be oversight. And, and now we know, I mean, I think why it is that Donald didn't want to go there, it's more than just laziness and dislike for his wife there, the social climber in Palm Beach. He's like a character at a Palm Royale, Bettina, and he's like a journalist and jaddy musical number, but right, it's that you, you see somebody went to the president and said, you can't be there. He didn't want to be there, right, I mean, so he got a, got a free pass and he's like, well, if you're going to have this guy pay for the wedding, I can't go, so I can't go. Right, I'm going to play golf, I'll hang out with Natalie, I'll do whatever. It was a win-win for everybody, but what a family of scumbags, right, there's no, there's no, there's no, they are, they are scumbags without parallel across 250 years of history, it's unbelievable. 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I've written about the kidnapping of Ukrainian children by the tens of thousands, and I've written about it a couple of times over the last couple of years, and what's so sad to me is that as somebody writes every day of the thousands of things I've written among the lowest performers or the stories about the kidnapped Ukrainian children, it's important for people who appreciate the depravity and the evil of this, the Nazis did this. The kidnapped children that had the racial characteristics of the pure Aryan in their estimation, and they took them into the right and raised them as Germans. You have, this is a crime unparalleled in our lifetimes in a European country, where you have tens of thousands of children who have been stolen and have been repurposed as Russians, and this is an act of obliteration, not just of those children's lives, but of the culture of the Ukrainian people, it's an evil act, and this is the son of the President of the United States who is subordinate to behaviors that were architected within the span of living memory by men who held the names Hydrach, and Henler, and Ikeman, and Putin, the architects of this evil, and this guy is paying further wedding, the level of depravity, of corruption, it is unacceptable, and this is what Democrats have to appreciate is they have this tremendous victory that's coming, that's going to give them control of the Senate and the House, that they have not received this mandate, because the American people have confidence in them, but for any reason other than to make this stop, make it stop. We're looking at this week, the latest, you know, at times the Enipol has a 5143 generic ballot reserved number, that's a huge blue wave, what's your very specific advice to Democrats about where to start tackling this, they're clearly going to the gavel in the House, there is a lot to believe that they're going to get the gavel in the Senate, where, and when everything's a priority, nothing's a priority, so where would you start, where would you start cleaning house? Yeah, you know, it's funny, I had discussions, talks, jokes, whatever you want to call it, a lot of people, about like if you can only stop one of these Trump cabinet secretary's two years ago, who would it have been, and there's really no wrong answer, right, whether it was Christy Nome, Pam Bondy, Matt Gates, but I was always a Hague South guy, and I think that's where you have to start. So first off, what Hakeem Jeffries did with the secret meeting with Jared Kushner, who is the architect of the world in flames with his Abraham Accords, which were often celebrated, but never really understood that Jared Kushner's secret meetings with Hakeem Jeffries are unacceptable, unacceptable, you know, for the man who wishes to be the speaker of the house in the whole constitutional, constitutional office, and I hope he got the message from his, from his, from his base, and it's wrong to describe that as, as progressive outrage. There's opposition outrage to that. The first requirement for Democrats is to ditch Chuck Schumer, right, that's the first thing that has to be done. The second thing after that is to appreciate that what they have to do is to bring the checks and balances back to life, that the Congress is a co-equal branch of government, co-equal to the president, and they're going to reign in the out of control executive branch. And the first thing for the Senate Democrats underneath leadership to assert is that there will not be one Trump federal judge nominated who's approved through the two years remaining in his term, not one, and that they're going to open impeachment inquiries immediately and gather the evidence, the public record supports this on Pete Hackseth, a Robert Kennedy, on Howard Lutnik, on Janine Piro, on Emil Bove, and that they're going to stay on that. The answer to the question about impeaching Trump is that there are not enough jurors in the Senate who would take their oath seriously. There needs to be legislation passed that restrains everything by law that he will veto, which is fine, but the architecture of what will tragically be described as Project 2029, right, but is not that can be meted out so to speak with legislative priorities, right, that are voted in the law, because I think it's important, because this will be a fast-thorning presidential campaign to make clear exactly and precisely what the plan from day one is going to be, but the long and short of it is, Democrats need to use the full power of the Constitution that has given them the Article I branch of government. So for example, Leon Black, who is now suing the Congress, defying a subpoena should be arrested by the House Sergeant of Arms and locked up in the basement under the Congress's inherent contempt authority. Be a powerful message for the billionaire class. This is a bad man who is defying something he has no right to defy. And so the president's children, the president's thugs from Greg Bavino, investigations into the murder of Renee Good and Alex Prattie, oversight at every level. We have obliterated military bases across the Middle East that just now we're we seeing pictures of. The country has been lied to since February about this war, 66 times Donald Trump has declared victory, Pete Hagset, is a fascist puppet, a buffoon, Canada, Denmark, or countries that Trump, our allies, he's antagonized, every corrupt deal, every email, every correspondence between Tim Cook and someone in the West Wing. Go get it. Mark Zuckerberg, time for accountability. There's something slightly unsettling about how much of your personal information is floating around online, your email, your phone number, address, financial information, even details about your sexual orientation can end up in the hands of companies you've never heard of. 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On Hexith specifically, those pictures that you just mentioned, which we're showing on screen now, are they're devastating. We see, there's sites of an E3 century. It probably cost 500 million dollars to replace this. We were not told. We were told it was damaged. And that picture tells you that it clearly wasn't. But more importantly, some of the other images showed just how dangerous the conditions are in which US troops in the Middle East are being kept. How exactly did the Democrats now hold Hexith to the fire? I mean, just talk through the practicalities of impeaching. Because people followed the impeachment of Donald Trump, they probably haven't followed the power. The sheer power that that gives to the House and what they can do with it. Yeah. There's an urgent world necessity to impeach Hexith, who's a liar, who's incompetent, who's deranged, who has proselytized to the force who has politicized the force. This is very important. So the very first thing, if you're running for president, you best understand the difference between a Coast Guard and a Navy and an Air Force and a Marine Corps and an Army uniform. You ought to be able to understand the badges and aerosol badge, the airborne badge, the rank, the branch of service, artillery or infantry. Familiarity with the military is going to be important. Before the president speaks on January 20th to 2029, it's going to be a Democratic president. Cash Patel is fired. General Cain is fired. The Chief of Naval Operations is fired in full investigations. The Army Chief of Staff is fired. In full investigations into how they got their jobs. Their pilot technique, which has been documented and reported. And it may be that they retire at reduced ranks. General Donahue, one of the preeminent officers, this generation should be immediately recalled to active duty. It made the Army Chief of Staff. And there will be other officers who need to be recalled to active duty, who don't have the stain of the Trump era to begin reforming the military. The American people idiotized for many decades, it seems. Chanting USA, USA at flyovers. We got an undisciplined Kid Rock military. Doing fly-byes in his mansion, doubt discipline, Blue Angels off of the beach, a trillion plus dollars a year, and there's a very simple concept here. If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. And the Pentagon can't pass an audit. If you read the words of Eisenhower's farewell, warning about the military industrial complex, nobody should be surprised in a country where the President's corrupt son can be a war profiteer and go into the Trump business, that we lost the war to Iran. But the idea that unlimited spending and having bases in a hundred countries, all it's proven is imperial overreach. And the US military clearly cannot do the things that it was expected to do that we thought it could do. It has been mismanaged, it has been run into the ground, its credibility has been reduced to zero. And the lying that's coming out of the Pentagon now makes the Saigon five o'clock follies look like child's play. It's full Baghdad Bob 24/7. Abuse of the force, abuse of the equipment, it's a disaster. We've lost the war, a naval war, to a country whose navy we sank. It's an achievement unprecedented across 10,000 years of human history. Takes a certain level of incompetence to do that and Trump has met it. But we have lost control of freedom and navigation of the seas in the state of Hormuz against Iran, which sends a very clear message to China about the South China Sea and about their nine dash line and about their sovereignty claims to Taiwan. We can't meet our treaty obligations in the Pacific, we won't meet them in the Atlantic, we have abandoned them in Europe and the Middle East is on fire. This president has broken the military, he's broken the economy, he's broken the rule of law, he's broken the checks and balances, he's broken the peaceful transition of power and he has set the world in motion towards World War III. 80 years ago, on the edge of victory in the Second World War, the Canadian Prime Minister McKenzie King and Franklin Roosevelt was good friend, we're dining in the White House. In King recorded the conversation, he said FDR said his vision for peace. He hoped he would endure for as long as everyone who was alive on the day the war was won was still alive. The youngest said those people are 82 years old. So here we are. And Donald Trump, on the following year after that dinner, seems to have set it all on fire, but to what end? To what purpose? Does the corruption, there's the incompetence, you've been a master of messaging as well. What message should the Democrats take out of this? And if you are running as a Democrat in a swing district or even in what we thought was a Ruby Red State might not be, how do you parse that? How do you get that across to voters? This, it seems almost impossible to process, it's so big, there's so many things. How do you, how do you just get that so that people who are sitting, you know, see the ads between the between the breaks on jeopardy or during the local news are on their phones? What's this simple message that just encapsulates it? I think overwhelmingly they should understand a couple things. First off, I think the polling almost uniformly over states, Trump, and Republicans strengthen right now. What I see coming into shape is a collapse of a maggot turnout and a surge of independent and democratic turnout. It's going to be one of the great decisive political events ever. All right, the reckoning is coming due. A powerful mandate will be delivered, but that is a mandate that should not be understood as victory for Chuck Schumer. It is a rebuke to Donald Trump and it is an opportunity for the Democrats who lost two out of three elections to Donald Trump, the most prolific liar in the world, no joke, no exaggeration since Goebbels and Hitler, my lie count, and incredibly in two out of three American elections, he was viewed as the more honest candidate on the border, on Biden's fitness, on the economy, you have a democratic party that explicitly said during the Obama era that he didn't need white working class voters anymore because of the rising Obama coalition. There were not enough college educated voters in that coalition to discard the majority of the country. Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt understood how important it was that there be no forgotten people, that everybody needs to be seen, everyone needs to be heard, that the Democratic Party, the party of the common man, turned away from that common person. People want to be seen and they want to be heard. They are a huge swass of the country, where the Democratic Party doesn't really have a claim, a standing to say we're a national party, regional party, leadership in Congress from California and Brooklyn, but you're You're seeing a rising Democratic Party, James Teleriko, John Osloff, you're seeing candidates do very well in Kansas. You have to remember his Bob Dole, his surgeries, after his war wounds, came in the form of donations tossed into a cigar box in Russell, Kansas. The rebob Dole's farewell letter, Roger Marshall is the antithesis of Dole and Eisenhower. He's in a losing state of Kansas. He's a whack job, part of the radical tradition that's come out of the state, but that has always been put down within the state. You have a moment in time right now, where every Democrat ought to, when they hear words like being imposed on them by their Democratic pollsters, right? That sound jargony, don't say them speak English, tell the truth, be honest. This is a immense crisis we're facing in this country. Tell the truth about it. And don't blame the voters for it. They're not stupid. In a choice between two corrupt institutions, voters pick the magas because they were more honest than the eyes of the voters, incredibly, right? And so what Democrats have to have is humility. What Democrats have to have is, hey, this guy lied to you and we have to make this stop together. It's bad for your kids and we don't have to compromise with the 25% of the country that's bad shit crazy and wants to burn the Constitution to be in a version of the Jones town called. We need to, we need to run them over at the polls. Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all-day comfy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Plump, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. You mentioned also of Intala Rico, who else should we, who else should we be watching? And I should say, by the way, dailybies readers are fascinated by also, they're fascinated by Tala Rico. They obviously see that these are, they're, these are rising stars. They're, there's obviously there's more out there. You mentioned Kansas. We haven't talked about Iowa. We haven't talked about Ohio actually, because there are, there are significant candidates. I, you're going to have Democratic Senator in the state of Ohio. You're going to have any Andrews is going to be, is, is going to be, is in a win the election. I think the Iowa is going to have Democratic governor, Democratic Senate. I think that there's a real chance for a Democrat to win the Texas governor's race. I think that as you look around into the South, you have Jamie Davis and Louisiana. You have Scott column in Mississippi. Democratic Party needs to be all in, when you have black candidates running in states like Louisiana and Mississippi, when you have a black prosecutor in the state of Mississippi, the mega average is from, when, when Elvis Presley's nephew lost by three points for governor four years ago, you roll in, right? You crack the ceiling and you keep hitting it until you win a race down there. And so all over the country, you're going to, you're going to see the waters come up on these Maggie candidates. You have some independent candidates in Nebraska, in South Dakota, without Democrats, who may win also. The country's going to reject us. The economy, the fuse is lit. I can't tell you what day it's going to blow up, but I know that I've had the experience on a presidential campaign when that happened when Lehman Brothers imploded and the economy went down. And that's what you're seeing, that's what you're seeing happen right now. The country is enraged over, over this. Trump, any, any, any person who believed this, I'll withhold my, my opinion for a second, but you were conned. But by a person who history will record as a great con man, as a, as a, as the demagogue, the founders, the founders worried about, right, it, and the issue is like that my anger at those people for falling for it, that's my issue, not their issue. The bad guy in this story isn't the voters, it's Trump. And so the judgmental wing of the opposition, including the Democratic Party that's pissed off at those voters who voted for this guy, time to let it go. We need these people back in our vote. And about 80% of the country right now is opposed on an issue to issue basis on nearly everything that he's doing and at a personal level, he's under 30% now. And so there's a wipeout coming. The cost of gasoline, the implications from this war, the loss of America's standing in the world. This is going to start to weigh very heavily over these next 48 days. You just mentioned that you were in a campaign when Lehman Brothers went down, everybody around Trump must have a moment, right, where they, where this becomes clear. Explain, I mean, explain maybe for their benefit. What happens in that moment when, when something, when this trigger happens, when there's some moment that you realize the economy is against us so catastrophically that we can't win. Only the stupidest people amongst them don't understand by now that this is going down. But there was a story that was out in last week as literally reading it from Southern Bavaria at the Oberts-Sallsburg, near the bunker complex underneath the Nazis final, final readout. And it's, it's a story about how nobody will tell them now. And what's the point? And so what I've said for a long time is that MAGA hierarchically is aligned in the people in that line have two features that are unique. They all have eyes in the back of their head for the knife and the hand behind them because that's the way you advance, right, you want to get one seat closer to the fewer cable. So all these people are plotting against one another. They're rats jumping off the ship. They don't want to be seen at Dallas. So we're trying to run away from Trump. They're all tied to him. They're married to him. There is no running from Trump. Go to Dallas. Don't go to Dallas. You're all one uniform block of fucking crazy, right? They tried to light the Constitution on fire by denying an election result in setting a standard where the American people who are the recipients of a 250 year inheritance of elections and have the freest and fairest elections in the world that this is now suspect. And this insanity is spread everywhere because we were the foundation, the stability in the world for an order that not perfect was much more perfect than anything that has ever come before. And so Donald Trump began this presidency with the repudiation of the Atlantic Charter. He is meddling, for example, in fragile Irish politics out of ignorance everywhere he goes. He lights something on fire. And this era of American politics in the decades that preceded it, that produced it will long be studied. But we're in a moment of real catastrophe in the world that's getting worse, that we all have an appreciation for that enough evidence is accumulated. I think that the American people are going to put a stop to it, but that's going to cause chaos in government for two years. But I think it's important for Democrats to realize nobody is voting for them to go up there and work with Donald Trump and find bipartisan common ground. What we're voting for them to do is to make this stop. Make it stop. Dave America has had some of the most brilliant attacks on Trump and most brilliant, I think nailings of his character. What are your plans for the next six weeks? Team is at it, right? So we're involved in a vote safe initiative with Reverend Sharpton, with faith leaders all over the country, national action network. involved in that space, we are, we're going to be communicating about various campaigns and candidates and we'll be trying to frame what the choice is for the American people to help people understand they've been lied to, that we've lost the war, that there's consequences for that, right? That, you know, for a long time, we had an argument in the country about, hmm, we vote for this guy some bad things might happen, well, we voted for him and there's no evasion now of those bad things they are happening and some of those things are going to become catastrophic things. And I, it was, I spent a lot of time in Europe over the last couple of weeks and I did some mountain climbing on the, on the border of Austria and Italy and the Dolomites and you're on the frontier of fighting in the First World War and we don't really talk about the First World War, we don't write about it, right? What happened, right? If you went out and yes, an average member of Congress, hey, what happened in the First World War? People would be like, hmm, I mean, what happened was four empires fell apart, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the German Empire and the Austro-Garion Empire and it set the stage for the deadliest war in history and and and one of the great achievements in the aftermath of a Holocaust is the European Union, the 80 years that Donald Trump lit a fire to for no other reason than his ignorance and his power and his prejudices and his vanities and the weakness of the people around them who couldn't be told no, the greed of media executives who lapped up every lick of nonsense and tried to profit from it and what we got in a serious world is a version of the Abbey Philip show and and here we are, here we are. And after I've been to those Dolomites, those battlefields and Dolomites as well, they're tremendously moving because you see in these incredibly beautiful mountains that men were facing each other in trenches dug into the rock, in winter, in horrible conditions. And as you say, it's a very moving reality that you're there and realize that there is peace as far as the eye can see metaphorically from, you know, from those Dolomites for hundreds and hundreds of miles and one of the things that I think captures, captures you when you're there is what progress we have made and yet here we are, we are talking about the possibility of that, not even the possibility, the reality of that progress having been halted. We've got not a lot of days to the election. People are already beginning to vote among those people around Trump because, you know, you know some of these people, you know them by character. What are they going to do when they lose? I mean, we also saw that the downfall movie about Adolf Hitler and that scene that's become a meme of him going crazy and, you know, that you're stuck in this world around Trump. You might get impeached if you beat Hegseth. You want to run as president, how do you, what are they going to do? It's going to be a catastrophic compulsion, isn't it? I think, I think that you should look forward to disgrace and misery and it will only ever get worse. You made a choice, you raised your hand against your country. You tried to light the constitution of the United States of America on fire. You're an American fascist and you're going to lose. What you did was an obscenity and a sin and no coming back from it and so you're going to have careers wiped out, reputations wiped out and misery. People will go bankrupt with the lawyer, some will go to prison. What I would say is, I think Christy knows a great example of this, right? So she got to bang Cory on AirFuck1, right, six or seven times flying around the land on the taxpayer dime and according to reports allegedly, of course. Yes, he does deny that they have a relationship. Was it worth it? He doesn't seem to me to be enjoying life very much right now. Right, how about Cory Lewandowski? He went for it, right, trying to pretend to be Mr. Kingpin, right, had Pimp at the HHS Department. I think he's going to go to prison. In Bondy, Todd Blanche, I'm 55 by the time I'm 65, Todd Blanche will be disborded. These ICE agents, every one of you sons of bitches, they're 47 days of training, right, set the countdown clock, right, it's up to the Democrats to lay the track, deposit your badge in the box, hit a left and your weapon in the one to the right. You drew your weapon on someone, you might go to prison. The Justice Department in two years time will be cooperating in the murder or investigations of Alex Prety and Renee Good, and there's no statute of limitations on murder. The assault on the uniform could a military justice, the boat strikes, the war crimes, the sinking of an unarmed, Iranian frigate, maybe, maybe, a naval, me lie. The United States did not go to the aid of those sailors in the sea, pressing for that out of Nuremberg, famous war crimes trials. So the people who stole, the people who lied, the people who tried to profit from the war, we're going to find out. And I don't think that anyone running for president is going to be in a position to appoint America, Ireland as Attorney General. This isn't revenge, this is justice, let's fund a mental American concept, is we get to pick our leaders, one, and two, no one is above or below the law. Grant talked about this, whether I agree with the law or whether I disagree with the law, my job as president is to faithfully execute the laws. The law must be executed faithfully. Steve Schmidt, you could not end in a better note than an appealed justice. It's 48 days, we are going to be checking in with you on the run up. We are looking forward to exactly what save America gets up to because I'm assuming that you are plotting an October surprise, I'd be disappointed if you're not, there should be a surprise about what you're predicting but quite how, quite what a scale this blue wave is going to be. It's coming. We will be with you to check in on its progress, Steve Schmidt, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you here. We are going to be covering the race to the election in depth every day on the Daily Beast, you can find us at www.TheDailyBeast.com. We're also in Substack and on the subject of Substack and we put up a link during the show to those extraordinarily moving Substack pieces that Steve Schmidt wrote about the kidnapped Canadian children. I could not recommend more highly, we've got the link up again on the screen and one small note on black has denied allegations of sex abuse and involvement with Epstein and thank you to everybody who's joined us, who've been part of our community. As I said, Joanna is back with Michael Wolfe on the next episode of Inside Trump's Head and a big thank you to our production team, Ryan Murray, John Romero, Heather Pizarro, Rachel Passer and Neil Rosenhausen. So the good news is we have so many Bee Beast tier members now, there are too many names to read out and we really appreciate your support.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Americans living abroad can legally vote in U.S. elections and should act immediately by requesting a ballot through votefromabroad.org.
  2. Democrats must reject Chuck Schumer, dismantle corrupt ties to Trump, and assert the constitutional power of Congress to hold the executive branch accountable.
  3. Immediate impeachment inquiries and legal action are needed against Trump-related misconduct, including improper military actions, war profiteering, and political corruption.
  4. The Democratic Party must prioritize transparency, truth, and moral clarity, rejecting voter blame and emphasizing that voters are rejecting corruption, not stupidity.
  5. A sweeping political shift is expected, with strong Democratic gains in swing states and underrepresented regions, driven by public outrage over Trump’s policies and leadership.
  6. The military’s mismanagement and broken credibility under Trump are central to the crisis, requiring deep reforms and accountability.
  7. Campaigns should focus on a clear message
  8. Key figures like Jared Kushner, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and Trump’s children must be investigated for unethical or illegal behavior.

Summary:

S. org to request a ballot. The Democratic Party faces a pivotal moment in the midterms, with a growing mandate to reject corruption, especially tied to Donald Trump’s leadership.

Steve Schmidt, a leading voice of moral clarity, calls for immediate action: ending ties with Chuck Schumer, launching impeachment inquiries, and enforcing constitutional checks on the executive branch. Central issues include military overreach, war profiteering, and the exploitation of allies, with evidence of Trump’s children engaging in risky, unethical behavior, including ties to Russian entities. The narrative emphasizes that voters are rejecting Trump’s lies and incompetence, not due to ignorance, but because of widespread evidence of corruption and failure.

Democrats must communicate truthfully, avoid blame, and focus on restoring integrity. A significant political realignment is expected, with strong performances in states like Kansas, Ohio, and Louisiana, driven by public outrage and a surge in independent and Democratic turnout. The message is clear: the people are voting not to compromise, but to stop the erosion of democracy and restore accountability.

This shift signals a historic reckoning, with long-term consequences for the military, economy, and international standing, ensuring that no one, not even the president’s allies, is above the law.

FAQs

Yes, Americans living abroad can legally vote in U.S. elections by requesting a ballot through votefromabroad.org.

Visit votefromabroad.org, click 'request my ballot,' and ask for it by email. Then fill out the ballot and mail it back.

Steve Schmidt believes the country is facing a deep crisis of corruption, incompetence, and moral failure, especially under Donald Trump's leadership.

He urges Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer, rein in the executive branch, stop Trump-appointed federal judges, and launch impeachment inquiries into Trump and his allies.

Yes, the transcript references allegations that Donald Trump Jr. attended a wedding paid for by a Russian-connected individual and that his wife was involved in activities linked to Russian influence.

Democrats should emphasize honesty, transparency, and the need to stop Trump’s corruption and misconduct, rather than blaming voters for their choices.

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