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We don't negotiate with terrorists. End stop.

Traitorous bastards like Graham have lived off the largesse of taxpayers like me, only to wipe their feet on the rule of law. Well, enforcing the rule of law IS how I want my tax dollars spent. There is no alternative.

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Fervently hoping that Merrick Garland will be the savior of Democracy. Perhaps it was meant to be that he was denied the Supreme Court only to become the most decisive AG in our history. He is a man of everything that DT is not. For this I pray.

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Aug 30, 2022Liked by Steve Schmidt

Steve! Steve! Steve! I want to stand in “the town square” and read this post from a scroll so everyone can hear it. This mistake masquerading as a human must be arrested and brought to justice. Like chattel slavery, he is a stain on American history. Americans can right this wrong with the power of a vote. I pray to God we have the strength to do so.

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Aug 30, 2022Liked by Steve Schmidt

I seriously love your writing. I look forward to reading everything you write. Thank you for doing what you are doing, speaking the truth, calling it out the hard way, and saying the things people are too shy to say out loud. Thank you.

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Aug 30, 2022·edited Aug 30, 2022

Ridiculous that Lindsey is lying prostrate on his fainting couch fanning his face with his hankie, full of fear and consternation at the horrifying thought that Donald the Great and Powerful would be held to account like a common criminal. Give me a f*cking break. If there are violent right wing fascists rioting in the streets of American cities, so be it. Fears of Trumpist violence must not be the deciding factor of the Department of Justice.

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The kompromat that Trump (via Putin) has on Graham is existential. I suspect Trump is threatening Graham with exposure, hence the lap dog BS we saw over the weekend. There will be more of it. The best part is that Trump will eventually turn on Graham and we'll all find out anyway.

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Aug 30, 2022Liked by Steve Schmidt

Agree 100% and I am not afraid. It is beyond time to stand up to this bully and his minions, and end this sordid chapter of our history with justice.

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Taking no prisoners as usual, Mr Schmidt - my fellow NJ rooted amigo. Especially appreciate the well deserved swipes to Mattis, Kelly and Haberman. So so many enablers.

And what of the next generation of candidates with malice? Ron DeSantis smarter than Trump by a mile with full fascist tendencies. So dangerous.

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Senator Graham's words had all the markings of those mob boss words from the movies of the past (and I'm paraphrasing here); "You know, it would be a shame if something happened............"

The weird thing is, I don't know that he's wrong. I fully expect violence IF the Orange Asscactus is indicted. I fully expect his cultish supporters to try and dox the members of any grand jury that issues the indictment, and to then begin threatening their lives and the lives of their family members. That's what brainwashed people in a cult do. This country is in deep, deep trouble.

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Aug 30, 2022Liked by Steve Schmidt

It is soooooo refreshing to read your work and all the intelligent comments as well. It is not an understatement that democracy is at stake if Garland does not prosecute DT. If not for the crimes at Mar-a-Lago, then the next time it will be for murder and as a traitor!

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All are equal under the law. Bedrock of our Constitution . If there is sufficient cause for charges and arrests, then the law is followed . No more, no less. We honor our oaths and our history, the defend the Constitution.

Violence, however it occurs, and I believe the possibility is there, will be short lived. ( no, not 1914 short war, just size and belief in a localized insurgency). Violence does not deflect us from the path. Resolve keeps us on the path. Will some people be angry, yes. It will be , for some, the 21 st C “lost cause”.

Our role , and that of DOJ, and the third branch of government, is to ensure it is a lost cause. Whatever the cost, it is worth the final outcome. At the end, We will be a stronger nation

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from one traitor to another: "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." - Robert E. Lee

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Amen Steve:

Why is there even any discussion that a criminal who incited an armed rebellion against the US Government, stole US national security secrets and left them lying around his gauche hotel complex should not be indicted for all his crimes? Any person (politician, pundit etc) suggesting that Trump be given a free pass from his crimes for the Good of the Country) should be shamed and excoriated. We can perhaps start with the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal, once an esteemed newspaper).The phrase "Liberty and Justice For All" in the Pledge of Allegiance states emphatically that NO!! individual is denied justice (both positive and harsh in consequence). To excuse the former president's actions due to his position and the size and potential lawlessness of his so called base is antithetical to the American system of justice. Look back no further than the 1920s and early 1930's Germany to see the potential catastrophic consequences of not disposing of violent and criminal behaviour. Such action will not result in any Good to the Country!!

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Well the recent news about DJT’s “Truth Social “ platform just supports the real “truth” about DJT. He is at it again. Stiffing platform vendor for $1,600,000 so far. He has little or no money invested. Truth Social is failing and DJT is not helping. What is new here? Nothing. Same leopard same spots. His red hat brigade is either oblivious or just don’t care. My bet is both.

So Lindsey Graham is warning or threatening violence if DJT is held accountable? Well folks here is our chance to actually be the troops we all support from the comfort of our homes Who will step forward?

The only interest the red hat brigade has in preserving the American way of life is to turn back the clock while eliminating democratic practices such as fair elections and honoring and building on our diversity.

It is insane for the RHB. To think their pitiful militias can stand against the force of the American law enforcement plus our military. What they are counting on is the arm chair troop supporters will opt for appeasement of the RHB bullies.

DJT cynically tried to send a message to AG Garland that he knows there is serious unrest in his RHB minions and wants to know “how he can help”. What a joke and pathetic attempt to intimidate America.

DJT has mislead his followers with lies, time for him to employ truth… good luck with that folks.

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Aug 30, 2022·edited Aug 30, 2022

Steve - I would love for you to write more about why good people like Mattis, Kelly, Milley, etc., watched it all happening but said nothing in the moment - when it potentially would have resonated more loudly. I don’t think it was about future book deals. I think it is a more fundamental element of “human behavior in groups” that suppresses dissent. I will agree that some of them were motivated by future book deals. But it is (and was) too prevalent of a behavior. Would love your thoughts on it.

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As usual, excellent piece. I tried to write something noteworthy, but as I tried these words came to me which are so profound, and fitting for our time. I truly hope we don't have a Gettysbugh moment, but Lincolns words are nonetheless prescient to what our collective response should be.

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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863"

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