STEVE SCHMIDT IS A REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT, HE HAS WORKED ON
MANY CAMPAIGNS INCLUDING JOHN MCCAIN'S, AND BOY HE IS SERIOUS
ABOUT DONALD TRUMP'S FAIL SURROUNDING THE NFL.
AS YOU ALL
KNOW KAEPERNICK TOOK A KNEE, HE WAS PROTESTING POLICE BRUTALITY
AND ALL THE UNARMED BLACK MAN IN AMERICA BEING SHOT, AND JUST
OVERALL BETTER TRAINING FOR COPS AND MORE RESPONSIVE TO THE
COMMUNITY, I FIND THAT PROTEST TO BE SO UNCONTROVERSIAL BUT A
LOT OF NFL OWNERS DID NOT AGREE, AND YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE
STORY, WHERE DONALD TRUMP ATTACKS IN ALABAMA AND SAYS
ANYONE WHO TAKES A KNEE SHOULD BE FIRED AND CALLS THEM SON OF A
BITCH, ETC.
THE ENTIRE NFL, HUNDREDS OF PLAYERS AND BY THE
WAY COACHES AND NFL OWNERS, TAKING A KNEE AND JOINING IN THE
PROTESTS IN RESPONSE, BUT NONETHELESS I WAS A LITTLE
SURPRISED BY STEVE SCHMIDT'S REACTION BECAUSE IT'S SO
VOCIFEROUS.
THIS IS A REPUBLICAN TALKING ABOUT THIS ISSUE, WATCH.
TO SEE HIM TRY TO HIJACK THIS SYMBOL, TO WRAP HIMSELF IN IT
FOR THE PURPOSES PREMEDITATEDLY, PURPOSELY DIVIDING THE COUNTRY,
IS THE MOST DISGUSTING THING I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFETIME IN MY
47 YEARS.
WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS DOING HERE IS AS TERRIBLE A
THING, AND MAYBE THE MOST TERRIBLE THING, THAT HAS EVER
BEEN DONE TO THIS COUNTRY BY A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
DESPICABLE DOESN'T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT.
I ACTUALLY THINK TRUMP HAS DONE WORSE.
AND BY THE WAY I
THINK BUSH HAS DONE WORSE IN SOME WAYS.
LOOK, THE IRAQ WAR
KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS.
BUT I LOVE
HIS ANGER AND HIS RAGE AT HIM DIVIDING US, AND THAT'S EXACTLY
WHAT HE'S TRYING TO DO.
AND HERE SCHMIDT IS GOING TO GET EVEN MORE SPECIFIC, LISTEN.
I SAW A HANDSOME YOUNG MAN ON TV, AND NFL PLAYER, HE GOT A
LITTLE BIT JAMMED UP WHEN THE REPORTER ASKED HIM A QUESTION,
IS HE A RACIST?
HE DIDN'T WANT TO SAY IT, SO LET ME SAY IT, I
WANT TO HELP HIM OUT, HE'S A RACIST.
YOU LOOK AT THAT SPEECH
IN ALABAMA TO AN ALL-WHITE CROWD -- WE NEED TO GET REAL ABOUT
THIS IN THIS COUNTRY.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
GOES DOWN THERE, HE TALKS ABOUT US AND THOSE PEOPLE.
HE CAME
PROVERBIALLY AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY COME TO SHOUTING AT A
RALLY THE "N" WORD.
THAT'S WHAT HE DID DOWN THERE.
I KNOW IT,
YOU KNOW IT, HAROLD KNOWS IT, WE ALL KNOW IT. AND FOR THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ITS LEADERS, FOR EVERY DECENT PERSON
IN AMERICA, WE ARE COMING UP ON THE LINE WHERE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
WITH THIS.
WHAT HE'S DOING TO THE COUNTRY IS TRAGIC.
VERY STRONG WORDS, WHICH I REALLY APPRECIATE.
BUT HE'S NOT
ALONE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SHAKEN BY THIS.
AGAIN I THINK
TRUMP HAS DONE WORSE, I THINK TRUMP HAS DONE WAY WORSE ON THE
ISSUE OF RACE.
THERE ARE 1000 THINGS THAT GO INTO IT,
BIRTHERISM, IS RESPONSE TO CHARLOTTESVILLE, LET ALONE WHAT
HE DID WITH THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, FIVE BLACK KIDS ACCUSED OF
RAPE, HE WANTED THEM EXECUTED, IT TURNS OUT LATER THEY DIDN'T
DO IT, EVEN AFTER HE FOUND OUT THEY DIDN'T DO WHAT HE STILL
SAID THEY SHOULD STAY IN JAIL, WHICH IS OUTRAGEOUS AND THERE'S
NO REASON FOR IT OTHER THAN RACE.
AND HERE SCHMIDT POINTS
OUT HE TALKS ABOUT US VERSUS THEM, NOT LIKE A SLIP OF THE
TONGUE BUT YOU KEEP SAYING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN, WE KNOW
WHICH DIRECTION YOU ARE GOING WITH THIS.
THIS IS NOT CODED
LANGUAGE, THIS IS OBVIOUS LANGUAGE.
LATER IN THE SHOW WE
WILL HAVE A STORY FOR YOU, THE SHOW IS LIVE EVERYDAY 6 PM TO 8
PM EASTERN, CHECK IT OUT -- ANA WILL COME LATER IN THE PROGRAM
AND TELL US ABOUT A FOCUS GROUP THAT CNN DID OF TRUMP
SUPPORTERS, AND ONE OF THEM ASKING THE QUESTION OF, WAIT,
WHY IS TRUMP CRITICIZING BLACK NFL PLAYERS WAY MORE HARSHLY
THAN HE IS CRITICIZING NEO-NAZIS?
HE WAS VERY TEPID
AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE, BUT SOMEONE TAKES A KNEE SAYING
DON'T DO POLICE BRUTALITY AND COMES AT HIM BLAZING, SON OF A
BITCH SHOULD BE FIRED, AND DOES IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
SO
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN WORSE ISSUES I THINK WHAT RESONATED
WITH STEVE SCHMIDT AND A LOT OF TRUMP VOTERS IS THE NFL IS A
GIANT PART OF AMERICA AND THEY PAY ATTENTION TO THAT.
SO WHEN
THEY SAW HIM DO IT SO PUBLICLY ABOUT SUCH A BIG ISSUE IN THEIR
LIVES, IT BECOMES A LITTLE HARDER TO TURN YOUR EYES.
AND I
THINK THAT HIS ISSUES WITH RACE BECAME MORE OBVIOUS TO AT LEAST
MORE PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY, AND STEVE SCHMIDT JUST CALLING IT
OUT.
REMEMBER HE'S A REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST, SO WHAT HE'S TRYING
TO DO THERE IS NOT TO DO DAMAGE TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, IN HIS
OWN WAY OF THINKING ABOUT IT HE'S TRYING TO RESCUE THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
LOOK, IF WE GET STUCK WITH THIS BRAND THAT
WE ARE THE GUYS WHO ARE TEPID ABOUT NEO-NAZIS, WE ARE THE GUYS
WHO ARE THE RACISTS, THAT'S GOING TO DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY IN THE LONG RUN. AND I THINK HE'S TRYING TO DO THE
RIGHT THING AND SEPARATE TRUMP FROM THE REST OF THEM, BUT LET'S
KEEP IT REAL -- THE REPUBLICANS HAD 17 CHOICES IN THE PRIMARY.
THEY CHOSE TRUMP.
AND YES, HE HADN'T MADE THE NFL COMMENTS YET
BUT HE HAD MADE PLENTY OF THOSE COMMENTS ARE EARLIER.
HE STARTED
BIRTHERISM.
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE GETTING.
SO STEVE SCHMIDT
MIGHT WANT TO LOOK AT THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS.
BUT MEANWHILE
IT IS MUCH APPRECIATED THAT HE HAD THE COURAGE TO CALL IT WHAT
IT IS.
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