This is the fifth anniversary of one of the most infamous events in American history, the worst attack against the Constitution since the firing by the Confederacy on Fort Sumter. It was a coup incited by a defeated president and enabled by a gang of sycophants who would rather tell Donald Trump yes or maintain their comfort by refusing to tell him no over the maintenance of their constitutional oaths
and their duty to the Republic. What happened on January sixth was an attack on the cornerstone of American society. Perhaps the greatest invention in all of American history, one that exceeds the invention of the airplane, the light bulb, the telephone. All of it was the peaceful transition of power, and it held from seventeen ninety seven until January sixth, twenty twenty one.
When this happened.
This is the warning.
It was the cost, It was the fruit of all of the lies. I predicted it in September of twenty twenty. I said that it would happen, that it was the inevitable consequence of a president saying that an election had been stolen, in inferring that it was his opponent who was illegitimate. It broke the back of the country. It destroyed functionally the American Republic. Donald Trump got away with the coup, and the country has never ever been the same.
The reality of this day is a five years on, we stand in a moment of national crisis that's unprecedented across our entire history.
We have a.
Lawless president, rupt Supreme Court, and a Congress filled with unus The idea that there are checks and balances is a force there are none. Let's listen to Senator Corey Booker finally tell the American people the truth about the Congress, about the Senate.
This to me is the problem with Democrats in America right now is we're willing to be complicit to Donald Trump to let this pass through when we have all the leverage right now there is to say, if you're as passionate about police as we are, then pass bills out of this body that will help the police officers in Washington. They will help the police officers in Illinois, they will help the police officers in New Jersey, they
will help the police officers. Know it, don't be complicit to the President of the United States, who we both know doesn't understand that language. Oh please, oh please, don't hurt Blue States. We are standing at a moment where our president is eviscerating the constitution of the United States of America, and we're willing.
To go along with that.
Today.
No country with checks and balances they take seriously its defense would ever allow for an adult, deranged, drunken, imbecile like Pete Hegsa to be its minister of defense.
None.
All of the things that are playing out in America are a function of a disease, and that disease is fascism. Fascism does not rise because it is strong, because it is noble, because it is virtuous, because it is worthy. It rises because democracy is weak and corrupt, and it produces the fascists.
Millions of American.
Voters chose Donald Trump because they believed on the border, on the economy, and on the question of Joe Biden's fitness, he the more honest candidate. The failure to stop this rest with who exactly should we continue to insist that no one's to blame except for the people who voted for Trump. Let me say it again, the greatest political failure in American history is the Democrats in twenty twenty four who lost an election to an insurrectionist who incited
a coup and incited violence against the Constitution. It is unbelievable and it is imponderable. After the coup, there was an opportunity for there to be accountability, but there was none thanks to Merrick Garland, the worst Attorney general in American history, the Neville Chamberlain of the Justice Department. He is the indispensable partner of Pam Bondi for the destruction
of the rule of law in the United States. And what follows the destruction of the rule of law in the United States is the abuse of the human being, the abuse of international law. What follows is invasion, war, international gangsterism.
We have entered into dangerous.
Days from a period of prosperity unknown in all the history of the world. That piece that upward advancement of human dignity has ceased. Scientific advancement has been set back, Medical technology has been set back, breakthroughs have been set back. Everything has been set back. We are drifting as a nation towards disaster, towards catastrophe, step by step, day by day. Five years ago this happened and Mitch McConnell said.
This January sixth was a disgrace. American citizens attacked their own government. They used terrorism to try to stop a specific peace of domestic business. They did not like fellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police. They stormed the center floor, they tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House. They built a gallows enchanted about murdering.
And Kevin McCarthy said this.
The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob riders.
And Lindsey Graham said this.
Georgia, they said, the Secretary of they took the law in his own hands.
He changed the election laws unlawfully.
A federal judge said, no, I accept the federal judge even though I don't agree with it. Fraud they said, there's sixty six thousand people in Georgia under eighteen voted. How many people believe that. I asked, give me ten had had one? They said, eight thousand felons in prison and Arizona voted give.
Me ten hadn't gotten one.
Does that say there's problems in every election?
I don't buy this. Enough's enough. We got to end it.
And now they say this.
You take down the source of the problem.
President Trump didn't wake up one day and say, hey, let's take Venezuela. He did what other people talked about, but didn't have the balls or the guts to do it.
This is a good thing. This is not intervegetism. This is making America safer.
We're going to be more prosperous because of the business deals. They're going to be Americans alive today because he's shut down a narco terra st state called Venezuela.
This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
So used end by your description of Trump as practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of January sixth, and potentially criminally responsible and libel.
I don't know how many times you're going to ask me the same question. I stand by everything I said on January sixth and February thirteenth of twenty one.
Well, I'm asking you the question because since the past few months have passed, in our last conversation, you've endorsed him for reelection.
You need to get better research. I was asked that question three years ago if he were the nominee, would I support it?
And you said you would support who what.
The nominee was because the voters of my party across the country have made a decision. As the Republican leader of the Senate, obviously I'm going to support the nominee of our party.
Trump is more than a president, right He's also the cabinet members, He's the speaker. I mean, well, Trump coming down and telling all the different factions the salt you're done, you got enough freedom caucus, knock it off.
They're also I'm not voting for it. They vote for it because.
Trump is literally stronger than he's ever been in the Republican Party than he is right now.
What they have done is burn the American flag. What they have done is pissed on the Constitution and turned it into a meaningless nothingness. The American people must now decide for We are the last line people who submit to tyranny and give away their freedom to authority the likes of which Donald Trump proclaims historically have had a
most difficult time reclaiming it. We may be the worst Americans that have been because we are the generations that allowed a affoon, a loon, and a corrupt con man to take our liberty and flush it down the toilet.
One year of Trump.
We have concentration camps in America, we have secret police, we have mass surveillance, we have a government focused on retribution against its critics, and we have war. And soon the caskets will start coming home covered in American flags. A young man and women will be buried, and they will have died for nothing, unless you count the balance sheet of Exxon Mobile and Chevron as something we're dying for. This is the warning. We are running out of time.
I'm Steve Schmidt.
This is the warning.
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