What Donald Trump says in this story is he will deploy the military tens of thousands of armed soldiers and tanks and humvey's all over the country. He will build massive detention in deportation camps. He will lock up political opponents. Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be monitored by the state. All of it will be scrutinized
by the state, by America's first dictator. Because Time magazine went tomorrow lago and they asked the most important question that anybody has asked in twenty twenty four and the answer they god is a repudiation of the United States. Donald Trump has laid out a blueprint. He has told us what is coming. We must stop this. It is April thirtieth, twenty twenty four, and there are one hundred and eighty nine days left until the presidential election of
November twenty twenty four. April thirtieth is an important day in American history. It is the day the Vietnam War ended April thirtieth, nineteen seventy five, forty nine years ago. Today, these scenes of chaos will long linger in the imagination of the generation of Americans who fought in the war, who protested in the war, whose generation was defined by it. In Washington, d c. The names of the fifty eight thousand dead are etched into a black marble wall. In Vietnam,
more than a million were killed. Today, Vietnam is one of the youngest nations on Earth, and for young Vietnamese born in nineteen eighty or after, they are the first generation in one thousand years who was born into peace. Vietnam is a strategically vital, an important American partner in the South China Sea. Relationship between our countries is important to understand. This is a tragic history that is important to know when you look out at American life today
and ponder the collapse of trust and institutions, cynicism. All of it is born from a lie told to the American people by the best and the brightest, who sent them to war, poor black, poor brown, poor white, to a war on the other side of the world that they knew could not be one. It is one of the most shameful chapters in American history. And if you see a Vietnam veteran, and these guys are increasingly old now, a lot of them in wheelchairs going to Washington, DC,
to look at the wall. If you're my age in American life fifty three, you don't tend to think of Vietnam veterans as the old guys because they were our parents. But the truth is, most Vietnam veterans now are pushing eighty years old, and some are even older. This was a space filled not so long ago by World War
II veterans, but they're mostly all gone now. Just a few will be alive to be present at the ceremonies in D Day commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation, But the overwhelming majority of old veterans combat veterans in the country wearing the hats that you'll see are Vietnam veterans, and they were not welcomed home in nineteen seventy five.
We're nineteen seventy we're nineteen sixty eight. So when you see a Vietnam veteran, it's appropriate to go up and to say thank you, and to say to them, no matter how old you are, welcome home. They'll appreciate it. There is a fundamental question at hand in America, and it is one that has not talked often enough about.
Part of it is the structure of politics in Washington, d c. Which, for most of the life of the country and certainly for the last fifty years in the federal capital, was built on a presumption of good faith. It's why people with disagreement could be good friends. There's a very famous illustration of this. Daniel in Away was the longtime Democratic senator from the state of Hawaii, one of the longest serving in American history, and a recipient of the Medal of Honor when in a way was
recovering after World War Two. He did so for years, and he shared a room with two men, both of whom, like him, would also become United States senators. With Daniel in Away passed away, His flag drab casket lay under the capital rotunda. It was flanked by a cordon of me military guard is befitting a recipient of the Medal of Honor. And then something remarkable happened. The crowd began to part a little bit. An old man in a wheelchair was being pushed towards Daniel Ineway's casket. It was
Bob Dole. When he got to those court on ropes, Bob Dole said, Danny wouldn't want to see me sitting in this wheelchair, and he struggled to get to his feet, and Bob Dole, the Republican nominee for President and Vice President, the Republican Senate majority leader, with his only good arm his left, saluted the casket of his brother, who he loved, his fierce political opponent, his comrade in arms, his fellow American.
We had a generation that were not able to look at each other as enemies in America because they had looked into the eyes of real enemies and knew what the stakes were. This past weekend was White House Correspondence Day weekend, and there is an annual garden brunch that attracts senior military leaders, members of Congress, diplomats, reporters, political consultants, and all of the nation's most powerful people politically in There in the crowd, of course, in Washington was Kelly
and Conway. But Kellyanne Conway isn't at that brunch as part of some respectable, disagreeing opposition. Kelly and Conway is at that lunch as a member of a fascist vanguard, and she is there in good standing. Nobody seems to mind, nobody seems to care. Eric Cordlessa is a reporter for Time magazine, and he did something unusual and long overdue. The fact of the matter is that regarding the space time continuum, the overwhelming majority of American media focuses in
the immediate present and the immediate passed. And by immediate past, I mean the last five minutes. We rarely talk about what's next, and that used to be the entirety of what a presidential election was, about what's going to happen next. There are a few questions that are ever asked of Donald Trump and Donald Trump's supporters hypothetically of course, because he's not in power yet, about what it is that he will do. Nine years ago, when it began, it
was preposterous declarations. But benign, I'm going to build a wall in Mexico will pay for it. Well, I'm going to crack an egg and a blue hippopotamus will jump out of it. Saying things does not make it so. But eight years have passed since Donald Trump came down the escalator, eight long years, and here in the ninth year, Donald Trump has a plan. This is so important to understand. There was no Republican platform at the last Republican convention.
Besides the mandate and requirement the party imposed around being loyal to Donald Trump. The party's platform had degenerated from political positions and philosophies to an oath of loyalty around a man. But it's not true that Donald Trump doesn't have anymore. It's not true that he doesn't have an agenda. It's not true that he doesn't have a vision. He does.
And Time Magazine went tomorrow a lago, Time Magazine sat down with Donald Trump and asked him the questions that no one else asks, what will you do if you get elected again? And there is an important corollary, my friends, to this vital question, because really that question is what are your plans for us to do to us, the American people, to the United States. I'm going to read a couple of paragraphs. Now, think about this, contemplate this deeply.
This is what the election is about. It's not about Joe Biden's age, It's not about anything other than this plan that I'm going to read to you. Because this is a plan that will subvert liberty and freedom in the United States. I want you to think about living in a country where there are hundreds of thousands of armed soldiers on the streets, in tanks, in humbies, in
armored personnel carriers. Let's be clear about something when we talk about Trump's use of the National Guard in the context of what I'm about to read you, the National Guard is frequently deployed in disasters. That's often how we think about the National Guard. But the National Guard is a vital component of the US Army. Its members are trained American soldiers, and they are lethal. National Guard units served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are military units.
They are not police units, and they are trained to kill. And they have no place, no business in the United States of America enforcing law, whether it be immigration law, whether it be city code, whether it be criminal code in Chicago or Detroit, or New York or wherever else Donald Trump plans to deploy them. This is a free nation, and free nations do not have an armed legion on the street kitted up for urban combat. No, not in
the United States of America. And when I read these next words to you, pay attention from Time magazine written by Eric cordlessa dateline Palm Beach, Florida. I bring up the many former cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump this time. Some of public warrant that he poses a danger to the republic. Why should voters trust you, I asked, when some of the people who observed you most closely do not. As always, Trump punches back, denigrating his former
top advisors. But beneath the typical torrent of invective, there is a larger lesson he has taken away. Quote I let them quit because I have a heart. I don't want to embarrass anybody. End quote, Trump says, quote I don't think I'll do that again from now on. A fire. I wanted to know what Trump would do if he wins a second term, to hear his vision for the
nation in his own words. What emerged in two interviews with Trump and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisors and confidants were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than eleven million people from the country, Trump told me he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the US military both at the border
and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bands. He would, at his personal discretion withhold funds appropriated by Congress. According to top advisors, he would be willing to fire a US attorney who doesn't carry out his orders to prosecute someone breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates
from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the US capital on January sixth, twenty twenty one, more than eight hundred of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn't paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the US Civil Service, deploy the National Guard to American cities.
He's fit clothes the White House Pandemic Preparedness Office, and staff his administration with acolytes who believe his false assertion that the twenty twenty election was stolen. Helly and Conway says, I don't think it's a big mystery what his agenda would be, but I think people will be surprised at the alacrity with which he will take action. I think it's very important for the American people to understand something. What I just read is a recipe of blueprint for
dictatorship in the United States of America. That is what Donald Trump will attempt to be. And he is surrounded by a gaggle, a coterie of sickophants, disordered personalities, psychopaths, conspiracy theorists, petty criminals, sexual abusers, and the list goes on. What Donald Trump says in this story is he will deploy the military tens of thousands of armed soldiers and tanks and humvy's all over the country. He will build
massive detention in deportation camps. He will lock up political opponents. Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be monitored by the state. And I have news for women who watch this. If your pregnancies are going to be monitored by the government, then so too will your birth control, your iud's, your birth control pills, all of it will
be scrutinized by the state, by America's first dictator. Because Time magazine went tomorrow a lago and they ask the most important question that anybody has asked in twenty twenty, and the answer they got is a repudiation of the United States, of the founding fathers, of Abraham Lincoln, of the Gettysburg Address, of Franklin Roosevelt, of John Kennedy, of Ronald Reagan. What they got is a promise to tear down America, tear down the Constitution, burn the Declaration of Independence,
and make Donald Trump America's first caesar. This is one of the most important editions of Time magazine that has ever been published, and that's saying a great deal. Donald Trump has laid out a blueprint. He has told us what is coming. We must stop this. These are the critical mass of people necessary to create not just a
national disaster, but a global one. Vladimir Putin will continue his war that has already breached half a million casualties, and it will spread into Europe, and with each step that it takes moving west, it will come closer to the United States. And then one day the first young American will be planted into the grounds, one more addition to the gardens of stone in American cemeteries all over
the world. His casket will be lowered, draped under an American flag dead, killed in action, a war that we should never have been involved in, but will come because of Trump. Do you like the idea of somebody who dares to speak in the United States of America, who asserts a position of conscious or opinion about anything, should be locked up by Trump if he doesn't like how you look, how you think that you dare to pose him? What about the millions of Americans out there who spoke
against Trump, who sent out a tweet about Trump? Will they be harassed, will they be targeted, will they be audited? Will the reporters be arrested? I documented carefully and thoroughly yesterday the attack on a Politico reporter by a US Catholic bishop. Most of the media is fixated on the
fight between the New York Times and Politico. What the media in America should be focused on is the power of Leonard Leo to orchestrate state attorney generals and a Catholic bishop to attack a reporter reporting on the public interest, scrutinizing some of the most powerful people in the country. Because, understand this, in the next Trump era, according to his promises, those reporters, those activists, everybody who opposes Trump is at risk to be prosecuted, have their lives destroyed to get
in line behind Trump. Who will stand up to the intimidation, Who will defy it, Who will lay in front of the tanks at the gates, Who will oppose a plan which is laid out, which is ready to take power in America and destroy the checks and balances. All of this is on paper, it is real, it is happening, and the simple fact of the matter is this. If the election were tomorrow, Donald Trump would win. That's today's warning. The country's at stake, and we all better wake up
to that fact before it's too late. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our sub stack on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.