“Catastrophe” will strike the U.S. if Donald Trump wins in November, warns Steve Schmidt, former political strategist for ex-President George W. Bush.
Schmidt wrote in his newsletter, The Warning with Steve Schmidt, that the country could face a national crisis, depending on the results of the November 5 presidential election, due to Trump’s repeated attacks on the “American way of life” and efforts to destroy it.
“There is catastrophe ahead if Trump wins,” Schmidt said. “The United States faces a national emergency because a presidential candidate and former president has attacked the cornerstones of the American way of life, and is trying to topple them for the purposes of taking political power. He is a world-class liar and manipulator who sought to destroy the American government, which he betrayed by rejecting the results of the election he lost and the oath of office he took.”
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, left, delivers remarks during a campaign rally on October 15 in Atlanta. Political strategist Steve Schmidt, right, is pictured on September 26, 2018, in New York City. Schmidt said a second term for Trump would be a “catastrophe” for the U.S.
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Schmidt, who also worked on the Republican political campaign of late U.S. Senator John McCain, has spoken out against Trump, renouncing the Republican Party as “fully the party of Trump” in 2018. Schmidt cofounded The Lincoln Project, which campaigns against the Republican nominee. In 2020, the group raised almost $100 million in its battle against Trump.
The strategist called out Trump for surrounding himself with “weirdos, criminals, cranks, conspiracy theorists, sexual predators, and moral deviants of all persuasions.”
Trump has been confronted on his relationship with controversial activist Laura Loomer. The far-right conspiracy theorist previously posted to X, formerly Twitter, raising questions about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, just two days after accompanying Trump at ceremonies marking the day of infamy’s 23rd anniversary.
Another Trump supporter, Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, called Loomer’s comments “appalling and extremely racist.” Greene has also recently been called out for claiming that someone is “controlling” the weather to summon hurricanes.
Schmidt also said that Trump’s Make America Great Again movement is a “safe haven” for “militia members, neo-Nazis and their propagandists, who are lawless, violent, corrupt and dangerous.”
“The threat to our way of life is immense,” Schmidt said. “He is unstable, incoherent and very angry. Trump will be manipulated by our enemies, and will give his allies free rein to abuse the American people for their gain, so long as they stay politically loyal.”
In other newsletters, Schmidt suggested that Trump’s foe, Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris, must “transcend the ordinary” during her last few weeks of campaigning.
“She should attack Trump as weak, immoral and degenerate. She should mock him as a laughing stock, and then quote the inscription on Ronald Reagan’s grave,” Schmidt said before the vice president’s recent interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier.
The backdrop of the two-term 1980s Republican president’s tombstone at his grave site in Bel Air, California, reads: “I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”
