Top GOP Strategist Delivers Scathing Smack Down to ‘Increasingly Authoritarian’ Trump Over His ‘Abject Ignorance’
Powerful Condemnation of the President
Top Republican strategist Steve Schmidt delivered a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump Friday afternoon. Best known for having run Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, Schmidt has distanced himself from the radical aspects GOP, especially Trump and his supporters.
In the clip below Schmidt guts Trump, saying he “upends America’s strategy” and gives “North Korea the strategic gift that it has always sought: parity and equal status, and a rival party on the world stage with the United States to change the subject” from Trump’s “relationship, and payoffs, and maybe physical threats to a porn star.”
Trump is “increasingly acting out,” “increasingly emboldened,” and “increasingly getting rid of people that he views as restraints.”
Schmidt charges Trump’s firings and re-shufflings are “part of his increasing autocratic actions, where he acts alone outside a system, where he does what he feels, he does what he intuits, he does what his instinct tells him to do – no matter his almost uniform, abject ignorance on every conceivable subject on which he’s acting.”
Earlier in the clip Schmidt commiserates with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, who served with Schmidt, as senior advisor on the McCain-Palin campaign.
“Eventually it all comes out,” he reminds.
Watch this powerful condemnation of the president:
Watch: @NicolleDWallace & @SteveSchmidtSES discuss the parallels between their time with Sarah Palin & the dysfunction in the Trump White House pic.twitter.com/InVTKeWsGW
– Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) March 16, 2018

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