Looking back on Jan. 4th - Steve Schmidt knew something was up

[FakeNoose]

DU link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214798847 Jan. 4, 2021

This MSNBC clip was posted on the morning of January 4th. Steve Schmidt himself is a never-Trumper and he could see that the Senate GOP members were splitting into 2 camps. He predicted that Liz Cheney would lead the "democracy" Republicans and Kevin McCarthy is probably leading the "Trump autocratic" Republicans. He predicts that the Cheney-led group will lose to the Trump-autocratic group.

(at about 6:00 on clip) Steve says that America has many great inventions, but our greatest American invention is the peaceful transition of power that we have shown the rest of the world since 1797. It's our greatest American export, the fact that our people are freely electing their leaders. That is what is being attacked here. There is no sin that Trump and his people have committed that is more grievous than the poisoning of America's faith in their free election system.

I am extrapolating his script here and I hope I'm hitting the main ideas. But WOW! You have to listen to this yourself to realize that Steve Schmidt had the gist of the WHOLE thing before it happened!

I salute you Steve Schmidt! This is it, before it happened.

[Casady1]

1. Put him back on the air

his commentary was great.

[Deuxcents]

5. I agree

Don’t know why we don’t see him anymore.

[Beaverhausen]

7. He's on the Lincoln Project podcast from time to time

It’s a really good podcast.

[uponit7771]

2. Folk who lurk winger boards knew shit was going down

[David__77]

8. Correct, I would have guessed the body count would be much higher.

It was not so different from pre-coup agitation elsewhere. Some people just cannot believe it’s possible here.

[dweller]

3. Anyone have access

To his Twitter feed from that day ?
Ari mentions his posts from that day as important

✌🏻

[FakeNoose]

4. I do not, but I suspect he was talking to high-up Repukes

Steve was getting insider-info, that's for sure.

[Hamlette]

6. I wonder if he started it all

The Lincoln project did an ad that aired a week or two before 1/6 whispering to Trump that Pence was going to betray Trump by certifying the votes on January 6. I'm not sure Trump had any idea what happens on January 6th until the ad came out. He flipped out and started planning the coup for that day.

IMHO

(PS, I'm not sure the Lincoln Project starting it all was a bad thing. It may well be that the backlash from Jan 6 put another dent in Trump's image.)

[FakeNoose]

9. I'm currently reading "I Alone Can Fix It"

... by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, two investigative reporters who trace Chump's major moves throughout the last year of his term. So Leonnig and Rucker have interviewed hundreds of staffers, campaign people and "friends" who interacted with Chump during this time.

Chump didn't suddenly become paranoid over Mike Pence after he lost the election. Chump knew he was going to lose even back last July and he was already planning the coup since then. It wasn't really him, it was people around him: Stephen Miller, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Flynn, and I'm sure others were involved. Pretty much all those who met on the night of Jan. 5th at the Trump Hotel in DC. They had frozen Pence out of their "Stop the Steal" plans a long time before, because they knew he wasn't going along with it. Same with Bill Barr, I guess.

Steve Schmidt knows a lot of insider Repukes, and he somehow got wind of what was about to happen, but there's no way he could have started anything.

[Hamlette]

18. Did the book say anything about Jan 6 being "the day" BEFORE the lincoln project ad?

I was wrong to imply he started it but I wonder if he planted the seed.

[FakeNoose]

23. I'm not there yet - still reading the book

I did read something interesting that the Lincoln Project brought about: Chump saw their ad on Faux Noise, the one about Brad Parscale getting very wealthy while working for Chump. Parscale owns mansions, expensive cars, yachts, etc. and Chump saw that ad and got really angry. Parscale was immediately demoted - but he wasn't fired because they still needed him working on the campaign. It changed him though because pretty soon after that, Parscale got arrested for beating his wife and other stuff. He really went downhill.

That was something that The Lincoln Project directly caused last year.

[Escurumbele]

10. Very good, but I disagree that "the will of the people" prevail, not while the Electoral College

remains. Until laws are put in place to stop the Gerrymandering the will of the people will not prevail, until accountability against the usurpers and the rule of law pounds the criminals the will of the people will not prevail.

There are too many loopholes in our political system that allow corruption, the system was designed for people with dignity, with strong principles, but that is not the case with the current republican party and they have known that for some time. trump was not an accident, he was placed there to do what he did, to create anxiety, division to allow those who know to do the dirty work behind the scenes. I doubt trump understood anything of what he was signing, he is too stupid to understand any of it, he only knows how to be a gangster, which doesn't take too much imagination, all you have to be is a piece of crap, a criminal. And lets be clear, a criminal doesn't have to physically kill anyone, all he has to do is order it.

[soldierant]

11. True that "the will of the people" cannot be depeneded on

from the Electorl College. But, in 2020, they were in agreement.

[Hestia]

12. He's back at his day job as GQP Strategist - why would we as DU applaud that?

Enemy of my enemy and all that was great last year in getting rid of TFG - but as soon as the election was over, all strategists went back to their regular jobs, the same one's that labeled all Democrats as libtards, etc. Sure, they were fantastic in their messaging, now we need to get our own and not have to use them again.

[Hekate]

16. He's still working at The Lincoln Project, is he not? What GOP strategist job is he in? What GOP ...

…candidate is he working for?

I think he is among those Never Trumpers who believe that the only way the Republican Party can ever cleanse itself is to lose and lose and lose elections.

If he’s changed, let me know.

[Hamlette]

19. He has hinted he will run against Mike Lee for Senate from Utah in 2022.

I hope he does and I hope he wins.

[OnDoutside]

22. Yes he is, and is a registered Democrat. Plus, Joe Trippi has joined TLP.

[Tom Rinaldo]

17. He not only left the Republican Party, he became a Democrat

Are you just assuming that he "went back to his old job", or do you have specific information?

[OnDoutside]

21. You're either badly misinformed or deliberately misleading. Which is it ?

[FakeNoose]

25. I don't think so, he seems to be consulting for Dems and libs

He resigned the Lincoln Project board in February, he admitted to management problems and perhaps a few errors in judgment, and his "mea culpa" seems to be sincere.

(link) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-schmidt-resigns-lincoln-project-board-scandals/

These days Schmidt seems to be posting opinions of his own on Twitter, and commentary clips on news channels such as Faux Noise and others, under his own name not part of The Lincoln Project. He's speaking up for Chris Cuomo on his recent avoidance of news stories concerning the Governor.

(link) https://www.foxnews.com/media/lincoln-projects-steve-schmidt-chris-cuomo-acted-ethically

I don't see Steve Schmidt doing any shilling for the GQP anywhere. I doubt that he'd be hired by any of them anyway.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. K&R

[usaf-vet]

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[Hekate]

15. Steve Schmidt...

[CentralMass]

20. Well he was Karl Rove's protege once upon a time. It's not surprising that he would know

some republican goons.

[Greybnk48]

24. Karl Rove is evil, not smart. Steve Schmidt is brilliant

and can be ruthless when it's necessary. With his intellect, and political intuition, he lapped his "teacher,"Karl Rove, YEARS ago.

Rove flunked out of college year one. All he had going for him was his penchant for dirty tricks (cut from the same cloth as Scott Walker). Steve Schmidt, among other things, has encyclopedic knowledge of history. I'm deliriously happy he's working for us.

[Grasswire2]

26. Didn't he bring Sarah Palin to the ticket, though? nt