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Team Trump's Post-Debate Free Fall

Sep 12, 202413 minEp. 325
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After being dominated by Kamala Harris in Tuesday's debate, Donald Trump and his cohorts are doing everything they can to recover from the fallout. Steve Schmidt looks at the post-debate spin from the Trump campaign and what happens from now until November.

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Speaker 1

Fifty four days to go until somewhere out there the last American will cast their vote in the choice for the forty seventh President of the United States of America. Between this stark, raving mad man and the vice President of the United States.

Speaker 2

This is the warning. Now.

Speaker 1

I've prepped a lot of political candidates over the years, presidents, vice presidents, prime ministers, governors, senators, and I always begin by making this point. There are no bad questions, only bad answers. I'm about to show you an epically bad answer from maybe the worst politician to ever get on to a national ticket, even worse than Sarah Pale. He's weird, he has no judgment in the moment whatsoever, and he's

completely disconnected from reality. And not to mention, he wants to be with every woman in the obstetricians office, in the gynecological examining room, in the delivery room, from cradle to grave. But we'll talk more about that in a minute. Let's listen to J d Vance dismiss the most meaningful endorsement of the twenty twenty four cycle, Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2

It's incredible.

Speaker 3

We admire Taylor Swift's music, but I don't think most Americans, whether they like her music or fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of those Americans.

Speaker 1

It seems to me and to most normal people, that he might be talking about someone else, maybe this.

Speaker 4

Guy in Springfield. They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, They're eating the cats, they're eating they're eating the pets of the people that live there.

Speaker 1

Honest to goodness, I don't even know if Trump is a real billionaire or not. It's been debated for twenty five years. Let's say that he is. What's indisputable is that somebody that ran a fake university, sold bad steaks and cheap wine, somebody who's a fraudster, an adjunicated rapist, somebody who tried to overthrow the government to wreck the American civilization. He's not on your side, but he's definitely gonna make sure that your pets are safe from imaginary

Haitians eating them. Let's just watch it again. It never gets old.

Speaker 4

In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating. They're eating the pets of the people that live there.

Speaker 1

The debate, let's just say, has triggered the right wing media. At Fox News, things have come unhinged. A preview, no doubt to the election season ahead and the night when Trump loses.

Speaker 3

I do think that Donald Trump did far better because you know what I think as you look at it, he answered the actual questions.

Speaker 2

It was a disaster for her last night.

Speaker 4

The signature moments that you see on the internet after this, she didn't have any.

Speaker 3

I do think the President had a very good night congratulating Kamala for the debate is stolen valor.

Speaker 1

Sean Davis's reaction to the debate was to arrest the commentators and the staff at ABC News, maybe to execute them, to pull the broadcast licenses. This is why I call these people fascists, because they are. Sean Davis is a fascist. He's a cret.

Speaker 2

Look at him.

Speaker 1

Sean Davis is a loser over at the Federalist So who cares?

Speaker 2

All over America?

Speaker 1

The right wing smear merchants like Megan Kelly and dozens of others went completely batshit crazy after the debate. They've spent the last twenty four hours, insisting that red is blue, that down is up, that up is down, Yelling, screaming, complaining, cries of grievance that could be heard on the space station. It's incredible. And it's all because Donald Trump showed who he is. Deranged, erratic, raging, easily baited, completely out of control.

The Vice President played with him like a catwould a deranged mouse. It was astonishing. He has no discipline whatsoever. Whether it's his crowds.

Speaker 2

People don't leave my rallies.

Speaker 4

We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics.

Speaker 2

Whether it's warted.

Speaker 4

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, and many of those professors, the top professors, think.

Speaker 2

My plan is a brilliant plan. It's a great plan. Whether it's Nancy Pelosi, it.

Speaker 4

Would have never happened if Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington did the jobs. I wasn't responsible for security. Nancy Pelosi was responsible. She didn't do her job.

Speaker 1

He is the fish that cannot stop biting the hook, no matter how many times he's been caught. An extraordinary, extraordinary psychological unraveling.

Speaker 2

Now, if this was a movie sequence.

Speaker 1

Say, starring Humphrey Bogart as Captain Quig. Trump, if he was acting might have gotten an Academy Award. But he's not acting. He's a man who wishes to troll America's nuclear arsenal.

Speaker 2

Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1

It's amazing we survived the first four years, who in their right mind could conceivably vote for someone who is not of their right mind? And melted down completely for ninety minutes on national television. His body language said it all. Trump always dresses like a schlepper. The tie too long, the pants four sizes too big, the ill fitting jacket, but he can usually somehow wear it like his Trump uniform.

But he was an old, slumped man at the debate night, punched over Vice President, looking him dead in the eye in saying, the senior military officers of this country think you are a disgrace, that you are a laughingstock to every foreign leader.

Speaker 2

Let's watch it again.

Speaker 4

In Springfield, they're eating the dogs the people that came in. They're eating the cats, they're eating they're eating the pets of the people that live there.

Speaker 2

They're eating the dogs. I'll say this.

Speaker 1

Some people say that Darwin's theory of evolution is unimpeachable. Honestly, I don't know, because I really can't explain the devolution from John Kennedy and Ronald Dragon to dishlow. Can you We went from I won't exploit my opponent's youth and inexperience to the clever there you go again, to Lloyd Benson saying to Dan QUAYO I knew Jack Kennedy to Donald Trump angrily crazily screaming, they're eating dogs. They're eating dogs. It is ludicrous beyond description. But the one thing it

will never be is unpredictable because Trumps. It has been one consistent then for ten years, unfit, mentally unfit.

Speaker 2

He has been.

Speaker 1

Incoherent, He has been nonsensical, blustering for a decade. And even as bad as he was, this race isn't over. And it's not over because of the absurdity and dishonesty and the collapse of journalism.

Speaker 2

I'm about to show you.

Speaker 1

Let's watch Marco Rubio smear the vice president with Jake Tapper looking like a baby seal who just got stunned by the Electric Club.

Speaker 2

That doesn't mean fraud.

Speaker 5

That means they didn't follow the law, and that undermines public confidence and opens the door in a close election for a losing side to point to those things and undermine public confidence and the elections. That's why it's so important that election has been done in a way in which the laws are followed transparently and clearly.

Speaker 1

Still, thank you so much, Senator Marco Rubio really appreciated, truly does he not understand at any level his job here as a journalist is to challenge the assault on reality. Marco Rubio discarded every single principle and conviction.

Speaker 2

He ever had to get.

Speaker 1

In line and on his knees to support the man who mocked his wife, debased him, degraded him, and stuck him with the nickname for all time that.

Speaker 2

He'll never lose Little Marco.

Speaker 1

It is idiocy, and it never stops, and it only ever helps one person, the imbecile in the race, who would be the guy who, in a presidential debate between himself and the Democratic nominee for the most powerful office in the world, completely melted down and started screaming, they're eating daw in Springfield.

Speaker 4

They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating they're eating the pets of the people that live there.

Speaker 1

No doubt, in a few weeks this race will be crazier than it is today. Donald Trump will become increasingly unhinged. We saw his mental decomposition during the debate. He will call for violence and it will be abetted by the media. He will call for mayhem and it will be abetted by some of the leading politicians of the fascist Maga Republican Party. He will deny the election result. It will be a lie, but it will be suborned by thousands of Republicans yearning for power at the expense of their

fidelity and duty to the American Constitution. Understand, like John Lewis pointed out, then, no matter what ship our ancestors came on, we're all on the same boat. Now, what the American people saw in a debate for president of the United States of America was a deranged old fascist melting down, being easily manipulated, yoked to his own stupidity and ego. The most predictable man in any realm, Donald Trump. We stand at a great American fork in the road.

Down one route led by Donald Trump is national and global catastrophe, and down the other Road is an extraordinary woman who's risen. She has risen to become the most powerful woman in American history. She's the Vice President of the United States, on the edge of becoming the forty seventh president and leading us beyond this age. Maybe Kamala Harris will turn out to be what this country truly needs,

a great, unifying president. There's hope of that, but there's none with the other Man, because he's a bad man.

Speaker 2

He's the head of an evil cause.

Speaker 1

Fascism can never be mitigated, it can never be downplayed. It can never be molded into something benign, because it is always something deadly.

Speaker 2

This is the morning.

Speaker 1

I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us.

Speaker 2

Welcome to the community.

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