All of this unpleasantness could have been dealt with. Joe Biden could be leading the country, uniting the country as a one term president. He would have been beloved. He could have ushered in generational change. But no, he made a different choice. If Donald Trump becomes the president of the United States, we will have a crisis in this country that is acute, that is real, and is as deep as the one this country faced on the edge of civil war, which Donald Trump talks about and stokes
all the time. It is Friday, June twenty eighth, the morning after the historic CNN debate between the two presidents, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. One hundred and thirty days remained until the election, until the last polls close. Fifty two days remain until the opening of the Democratic National Convention, and there Democrats must make a decision, followed by a decision that President Biden must make. This is the warning. President Biden's entire legacy is on the line. He should
understand this. If he loses to Donald Trump, the only thing he will be remembered for is his ego, the brittle ego of an elderly man who couldn't get enough. That is all there will be, and incredibly, there will be two presidents Trump and Biden back to back, who
never have a library. The legacy is singular. Trump is the man who desecrated his oath, who attacked the country, and Joe Biden will be remembered as the man who let him do it, the man who could not make an argument about American democracy on the edge of the country celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth year of its independence. Let's understand something from the debate. A president
swears an oath. It's the only one written in the Constitution to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Let's look at Donald Trump's answer to the question he finally got. Note the time mark about how deep into the debate it was before this question was asked.
Can Trump? The question was, will you accept the results of the election regardless of who wins? Yes or no? Please, if it's a fair and legal and good election, absolutely I would have much rather accepted these But the fraud and everything else was ridiculous. That if you want, we'll have a news conference on it in a week, or we'll have another one of these in a week. But I will absolutely, There's nothing I'd rather do. It would be much easier for me to do that, then I'm running again.
Trump's answer is insanity. It's incoherent, and like all of his answers, it's built on a foundation of Donald Trump lied with a bandon last night. He lied more than any presidential candidate has ever lied in any debate. And he held all the previous records from his three debates against Secretary Clinton and from his three debates against President Biden.
But this debate, the seventh debate, the debate that he lied the most in, was the debate where finally he was able to steam roll his opponent.
But when he talks about a convicted fella and his son is a convicted heelen at a very high level. His son is convicted, going to be convicted, probably numerous other times, should have been convicted before, but his Justice apartment let the statue limitations laps on the most important things. But he could be a convicted fella as soon as he gets out of office. Joe could be a convicted fellow with all of the things that he's done. He's done horrible things.
There's a simple truth. Joe Biden does not have the capacity to speak coherently, to form arguments, to push back against the worst cause and the worst set of ideas since the Confederacy, since fascism. Donald Trump and his agents have a nine hundred page, detailed playbook to disassemble the workings of the American civil service and to tear apart
the infrastructure that supports and sustains our democracy. It is a blueprint for the seizure of power, and then, according to Trump, it will be the mechanism by which political retribution is delivered. President Biden was unable to make a single effective argument. Joe Biden and the Democrats say they intend to win the election on abortion. They don't have a prayer of winning the election on abortion because the
President can't speak coherently about it. It was his chance to score point, like the January sixth issue, like a lot of issues that were brought up, but he cannot do it. The decline of Joe Biden between his debates four years ago with Trump and this debate tonight is shocking.
And the truth is the White House staff and a great deal of media has gas lit the country telling the American people over and over and over again that Joe Biden, despite the cuts that they saw on the news clips, despite the social media clips, was up for the job. Last night, in one of the largest television audiences in history, President Biden ended the debate. He demonstrated he's not up for the job. There will be no second debate, audience that convenes, no opportunity for recovery. This
is it. When Barack Obama had a bad debate, people didn't think it was because Barack Obama wasn't capable. People thought it was because Barack Obama didn't prepare. George Bush had a bad first debate. Ronald Reagan had a bad first debate. But no president has ever had a debate so definitional as the one we just witnessed. And so what happens now, Well, the Democratic Party and its leadership
has foisted this on the country. A small group of White House advisors did everything they could and successfully shut down primary competitions. There was no primary, there was no test for Biden. So when he faced his first tests, like many of us predicted, hoped, prayed would have happened, it happened. He collapsed and what was seen cannot be unseen. Gavin Newsom went on television and immolated his credibility last night when he talked about that Joe Biden was fine.
Was your reaction to what we saw on screen? Well, on a substance, he won the debate.
I'm old school.
I'm old fashioned. That's what matters to me.
He's not, and Gavin Newsom should understand if he has higher political ambitions to stop it. Stop gaslighting, Stop lying to the American people about the conditions they can clearly see. I'm a Gavin Newsom fan. And the fact that Joe Biden has put him in the position to act as his personal Sean Spicer telling the American people that A is bigger than B when in fact it's a lot smaller.
It's reprehensible and it won't work. All that it will do is destroy the credibility of the next generation of Democrats. The Democratic Party is one of the most important institutions for the preservation of human freedom and dignity in world history. Joe Biden is unable to perform at a moment of crisis the duties that are required to lead the party. He can't make an argument about the great issues of the day. He did not talk for a second about
the future. Every answer when Trump attacked him, ends with Biden declaring, this moment is the best that it's ever been and he has a thirty eight percent approval rate. If Donald Trump wins this election, it will be a catastrophe for America and the world, and it must not happen. Something must be said. This country is bigger than Joe Biden. This country is bigger than doctor Jill Biden's ambitions to
live in the White House for four more years. This country is a project through the centuries, not the months, not the decades, not the years. The White House staff that has foisted this on the country should be hanging
their heads in shame today. The MSNBC hosts that have foisted this on the country, who looked away, who gas lit their audience, who told them that everything was fine, who knew that in the green room all of the Democratic Congressmen say one thing, but on the camera something else. The split screen that played throughout this debate will become poisonous over these next days as it's cut up, as
it's distributed. And there's one takeaway from the debate, and it's that the president is feeble, unwell, unable to lead because That's the takeaway. Nobody saw the real danger, the lying, the menace, the go yourself look on Trump's face, the purse lips, the sense that he knows that he's winning, that he's coming back, and he's going to get even the worst part of this tragedy is the irresponsibility of the Biden team in cheerleading Donald Trump for four years.
Do you know what the Biden legacy is? It's simple. Extremism is worse today than it has ever been in America. And it got worse on Joe Biden's watch because he didn't assault it from day one. He stoked it. Because Trump's comeback was the rationale for his ability to break his promise and run for re election. And now here we are, the panic we are seeing is just beginning. It is epic and it is like an avalanche. It will roll downhill and it will take out everything in
its path. It cannot be stopped. What is it that the White House staff intends to tell the Democratic members of Congress who will lose their seat, the state legislatures that will flip to Maggi extremists, all because Joe Biden won't let go. Well, if those members of Congress treasure. They're elected positions. They're going to urge their leadership to go on down to the White House. Hakeem Jefferies is going to have to do with Howard Baker once did
all of this unpleasantness have been dealt with. Joe Biden could be leading the country, uniting the country as a one term president, he would have been beloved. He could have ushered in generational change. But no, he made a different choice. And now all the bullshit, all the talk, all of it has faded away to nothingness. And all that is left is what the American people saw for ninety minutes, And what they saw was an American tragedy, a catastrophe. Two old men lying about their golf scores,
two old men with their personal animus spewing forth. I've been involved in American politics for a long time. I can't think of a night that was more pathetic. Remember this, when you hear people lying to you that it's going to be okay, it's not. If Donald Trump becomes the president of the United States, we will have a crisis in this country that is acute, that is real, and is as deep as the one this country faced on the edge of civil war, which Donald Trump talks about
and stokes all the time. Donald Trump is a tomato can. There's never been an easier candidate to laugh out, to mock, to humiliate, any steamrolled Joe Biden. Joe Biden didn't land a single punch on Trump, not one, not even close. He couldn't make a single argument against the biggest easiest target ever. But do you know who could? Gretchen Whitmer could, Joshapiro, could, Wes Moore could? The Democratic Party faces an emergency, but
it can get out of it. What it requires is humility, reality, and understanding from the Biden clan that their time is up. It's time right now to pass the torch. And if they don't on election night, when Donald Trump is announced on CNN and on Fox and ON and ABC and NBC and CBS is the president elector of the United States, it will not be Donald Trump's achievement. It will be
Joe Biden's failure, his neglect. Fascism rose in the nineteen thirties not because it was strong, not because it was popular, but because democracy was weak. And what everyone saw last night was an enfeebled, weak American president. Chaos is good for Trump. He feeds off of it. Last night was Donald Trump's best night politically ever, including the night he
surprised the world and beat Secretary Clinton. He has never wanted a debate, he has never had a commanding victory until he got on the stage for ninety minutes with President Biden, who just can't do it anymore. He now faild. This is a choice his ego or the country, and if he needs help with that choice, then the leaders of the Democratic Party need to march on up to the White House and help him with it. This is the warning, and we are out of time. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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