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Steve Schmidt: Trump's 'Spygate' Conspiracy "Most Intense Disinformation Campaign This Country Has E
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Steve Schmidt: Trump's 'Spygate' Conspiracy "Most Intense Disinformation Campaign This Country Has Ever Seen"
Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date May 24, 2018
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Republican commentator and strategist Steve Schmidt, chief campaign manager for John McCain in 2008, said Thursday the way President Trump is spinning a "nefarious conspiracy" of the intel community spying on his presidential campaign is the "hallmark of autocratic leadership." Schmidt said that "this is not normal in a democratic republic" and warned the U.S. is heading toward a "very different type of country."
"What's increasingly clear, whether the target is James Comey, whether it's Director Mueller, the special counsel, the reality is that this president will burn everything to the ground to protect himself, to protect himself from this investigation moving closer to the Oval Office," he said.
"We're moving... closer and closer to the crisis, to the critical hour and the rule of law in this country must be defended," Schmidt declared. "There is a potential, absent any defense of it by leaders in this country, that we'll be living in a very different type of country."
"For 240 plus years, the rule of law has held in the United States of America. And the spinning of these conspiracy theories, the constancy of the attacks, the victimization that Trump puts upon himself, always blaming someone, this nefarious conspiracy, this is the hallmark of autocratic leadership back to the beginning of time. This is not normal in a democratic republic like the United States. And it should be opposed," he said.
"We're moving... closer and closer to the crisis, to the critical hour and the rule of law in this country must be defended," Schmidt declared. "There is a potential, absent any defense of it by leaders in this country, that we'll be living in a very different type of country."
"For 240 plus years, the rule of law has held in the United States of America. And the spinning of these conspiracy theories, the constancy of the attacks, the victimization that Trump puts upon himself, always blaming someone, this nefarious conspiracy, this is the hallmark of autocratic leadership back to the beginning of time. This is not normal in a democratic republic like the United States. And it should be opposed," he said.
Schmidt said there is a second scandal, and that is the complicity of the Republican party in Congress. Congressional Republicans not standing up to Trump "is what propaganda looks like," Schmidt said.
The MSNBC commentator also said America is seeing an "unprecedented" "attack from within" from Trump on vital institutions like a person's body would be attacked by a "flesh-eating bacteria."
"There is a second scandal, and that is the complicity of the majority party, the Republican party, in the Congress," Schmidt said. "The fact is that there is not one of them, not one who will stand up and say that we are a country of laws, that no person is above the law, that these institutions are vital and necessary and objective truth matters. This is propaganda. This is what propaganda looks like. It's what it smells like. We have never seen anything like it. What we're seeing is an attack from within on vital institutions like a person's body would be attacked by a flesh-eating bacteria. And it is unprecedented in America."
Schmidt's full comments on Thursday's broadcast of MSNBC's Deadline: White House:
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/05/24/steve_schmidt_trumps_spygate_conspiracy_most_intense_disinformation_campaign_this_country_has_ever_seen.html
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I remember about six months ago he told Stephanie Ruhle that when this all comes out (and it eventually will) that the American people will be shocked to the core at how bad this is. He said this will go down as the biggest scandal in U.S. history.
He knew it then. I wonder what else he knows?
K&R
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