Steve Schmidt thread: I wish Trump and Melania an expeditious recovery...

[Nevilledog]

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I wish Trump and Melania an expeditious recovery and hope very much that they will be in good health as they face electoral humiliation, repudiation and the harsh judgement of the American people on Election Day. Trump’s lying has become one of the most lethal events in our 1/
5:55 PM · Oct 2, 2020

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I wish Trump and Melania an expeditious recovery and hope very much that they will be in good health as they face electoral humiliation, repudiation and the harsh judgement of the American people on Election Day. Trump’s lying has become one of the most lethal events in our 1/

nation’s history. If US mortality rates were what they are in Germany, more than 150,000 Americans would still be alive. Trump’s cruel disregard for the American people has ravaged our economy, our kid’s educations and fundamental elements of the American way of life. 2/

There is no person in America that has done more to spread Covid than @realDonaldTrump and no one has tried harder to catch it. Trump couldn’t have been more personally reckless than if he went to Sturgess and licked the doorknobs on the porta-john’s. He politicized mask wearing
And thus sentenced tens of thousands to cruel and lonely deaths. He has let loose a national insanity that manifests itself in the lunacy of antimask protesters storming Walmart’s and supermarkets in spasms of idiocy and craziness. His political rallies are dangerously 3/

Delusional events where the advice of public health experts and MD’s is stupidly ignored. Each gathering spreads a disease that kills. It kills here more than anywhere else. This week has stripped bare the rotting and vile roots of Trumpism. It began with the revelation that 4/

The great conman and tax cheat paid $750 in Federal taxes and owes more than 400 million to undisclosed lenders, much of it personally guaranteed against no discernible income. The debate was a moment of national humiliation that disgraced the Presidency, 5/

the United States and the American people. At the end of the debate Trump incited extremist militia groups by delivering what they interpreted as a weapons ready order from the Commander in Chief. Heavily armed fascist Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and dozens of white supremacist 6/

Groups heard a lock and load order. Ask them. Believe them. Take them seriously. Trump has threatened the peaceful transition of power and intimated violence should he lose. He has made clear that his loss would be THE evidence of a stolen election. He has made up false 7/

and wild stories about corrupted ballots for the purposes of underming faith in our election’s integrity. These are unpardonable actions for an American President and they desecrate the sacrifice of every patriot from the fields at Lexington and Concord to 8/

Gettysburg, Normandy and the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Trump has lied to the country on more than 25,000 occasions, assaulted the rule of law, assailed our institutions, stoked racial animus and been spectacularly corrupt. He is singularly responsible for one of the great tragedies 9

In American history. His campaign is imploding. Paracale, Miller, Guilfoye, Melania, all of them have disgraced themselves and stained the Presidency. They are a wretched, corrupt and self interested gang of incompetents and maliced people who have done profound damage to this 10

Country in four short years. There should be no political mercy shown towards Trump and Trumpism in this moment. Mr. Vice President, your duty requires you to order your campaign to put its’ ads back on the air. @JoeBiden Trump is out of money. Spend him into the ground.

Georgia is close. @MikeEspyMS is close in Mississippi. The Kansas Senate race is close. Trumpism is an authoritarian and UNAMERICAN ideology that teens with menace and intimations of violence. It is a cult of personality led by a lethal liar who lacks intelligence, grace 12/

Empathy and competence. Trumpism is a scourge. It is a metastic cancer. We need to crush it. Should Trump be disadvantaged in this moment then we should rejoice. Pour it on. Vote him out. No let up. The pace and intensity of attacks should be increasing and should not stop

Until he is humiliated and sent home to face the judgement of history and in hopefully a good long time, his maker.
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[hibbing]

1. Required reading n/t

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. K&R

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. stop beating around the bush, Steve, and tell us how you really feel!

Great stuff, well said, things that NEED to be said. Bravo!

[Drum]

5. Boom!

[msongs]

6. such a kind man lol nt

[malaise]

7. That is how you respond to this monster

Nicely done

[ailsagirl]

25. Altho' much of it would probably be over his head

Just sayin'

[soothsayer]

8. Wowza!

[MaryMagdaline]

9. I love this man

[ailsagirl]

26. Me too-- did you see "Game Change?"

Woody Harrelson played Schmidt and he did a damn fine job

[MaryMagdaline]

28. Yes saw it twice and read the book

[ailsagirl]

40. I read the book, too

But I must have seen it half a dozen times--

[torius]

10. He should write get well cards!

[Cha]

13. Oy.. lol

[Cha]

11. "Lethal LIES" Sully said that in his Powerful Ad.

Thank you for this, Nd.. I too wish them a speedy recovery to face the music.

[ecstatic]

12. I love love LOVE Steve's trump rants! nt

[spanone]

14. ⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R⭐️⭐️⭐️

[tulipsandroses]

15. Finally, a voice of got damn reason! I was getting sick of all the well wishes .

He should be scorned. If you want to pity anyone, pity all the people he put in danger that had no choice in the matter. The secret service personnel that have to be close to him. Their families that they have to go home to. The lifelong White House staff and their families. This piece of shit didn't give one damn about their lives.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. +1

[Hekate]

16. This should be savored like a fine whiskey

Thank you, Steve Schmidt.

[AwakeAtLast]

56. Absolutely!

[Faux pas]

17. Kickin'

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. K and R

[dchill]

19. K & R.

[SunSeeker]

20. "Trump couldn't have been more reckless than if he went to Sturgess and licked the doorknobs."

[Illage Vidiot]

21. Melania? Sure.

But ZERO good wishes for Traitor Trump!

[niyad]

46. Malaria is just as bad as he is. No sympathy for her. She is either his handler, or a gold-digging

birther and illegal alien.

[Illage Vidiot]

49. She's a Hostage

[BComplex]

54. No, she's not a hostage. She's as much of a narcissist as he is. She's in it for the $$

and that's all. You sell your soul for money, it's nasty.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

22. Steve Schmidt says it so well, no other words needed.

[ailsagirl]

41. Among other things, a damn fine writer

[liberalmuse]

23. Wow, that was very succinct.

He almost hates Trump more than I do. Almost. That's only because he loves the American experiment more than money and corrupt power.

[LakeArenal]

24. However, all he has to do on his Christian death bed is repent....

Then it’s all good.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. I am betting 50-50 he's not even sick. Will believe IF and only IF

Real, independent Walter Reed doctors come to mics tomorrow. The man has lied 30,000 times per NYT.

[LakeArenal]

50. I agree totally. He's more of an 80-20 man. But....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

69. 80-20, lol! I was waiting to see if it was REAL doctors at presser.today.

Hell no. I mean like real expert doctors. They never involve the expert epidemiologists like Fauci...Sanjay thought that was very strange.

He's probably not faking...but LA, it just all feels very fishy. I bet Malaria does not have it. She JUST got caught on tape using Christmas and the F word together. Prime time for sympathy.

[LakeArenal]

71. Yes it's quite a pig pile.

Trump may still rise from the ashes in two weeks as a covid “hero”.

None of will work if fake.

Yea. Melanias war on Christmas.

[abakan]

57. I've said from the beginning

This is just another con to generate sympathy and give him a miraculous recovery where he comes out of it
right before the election.

The conman plays another con. Just look at his walk to the helicopter yesterday. He look as healthy as he has in months.

[Lock him up.]

60. Given the SpRead-Fest paRty they all gatheRed on Sunday...

We should not spread a CT they're all fake. Christie, K. A. CONway, sen. Johnson, Tillis, hope hicks, who's next (barR?)?

You cannot fake all these nutjobs' positive tests (and those yet to come).

[abakan]

64. There is nothing too devious for them to claim..

I believe my skepticism and abject distrust is well earned by anybody with an R by their name.
I will say I was wrong if they die.

[BootinUp]

27. Righteous. Nt

[smirkymonkey]

31. K&R

[Mersky]

32. I know where to put this:

In my signature.

No way could I have said any better how it is I feel right now.

[Nevilledog]

43. Looks good!

[roamer65]

33. Steve is right.

God bless him for speaking truth to power.

[Wawannabe]

34. I keep asking Siri ONE question...

Is he .... yet?

[democrank]

35. Poison dart words

meet deserving bullseye.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

36. + about a million.

There is no person in America that has done more to spread Covid than @realDonaldTrump and no one has tried harder to catch it. Trump couldn’t have been more personally reckless than if he went to Sturgess and licked the doorknobs on the porta-john’s. He politicized mask wearing. And thus sentenced tens of thousands to cruel and lonely deaths. He has let loose a national insanity that manifests itself in the lunacy of antimask protesters storming Walmart’s and supermarkets in spasms of idiocy and craziness.

Rachel Maddow made a point to say Trump deserves to suffer political consequences for his lethal negligence in handling this pandemic. I believe he also deserves any other suffering catching this hoax brings him.

[Danascot]

37. The time to press your attack

is when your enemy is weak.

[3catwoman3]

38. While the gracious words from the Bidens, Obamas, and Clintons are...

...admirable, Mr. Schmidt's words say what I think all 3 couples are probably really feeling. He certainly speaks for me.

[PatSeg]

39. K&R to read later

[dchill]

42. K&R.

[hot2na]

44. Go for the jugular.

(Figure of speech of course)

[intheflow]

45. Wait. Biden suspended his advertising over this?

That's a really, really stupid move on the Democrats' part. It's giving power to Trump and his followers, implicitly signaling that Trump is in control and should be respected. Neither of which has been true of the 45th administration since Day 1.

[Lochloosa]

67. Just the negative ads. Not all advertising.

[intheflow]

68. Phew!

Missed that! It's hard to keep up, with so much "winning" going down.

[dalton99a]

47. Kick

[niyad]

48. KNR

[warmfeet]

51. I disagree with Steve.

With every breath he continues to take, the orange menace is a threat to this nation. Joe Biden will be our next president. Nonetheless, I would like to see a peaceful transition of power and I am not at all certain this can happen with the orange menace still in the picture. I do not wish for an expeditious recovery, I wish for a peaceful transition to a sane administration.

[ooky]

52. He's a poet. K&R

[musclecar6]

53. Steve Schmidt

Speaks for me too. If the would be totalitarian dictator survives covid, I know his adoring sycophants will delighted. Those of us voting for Joe will not lose any sleep if he doesn’t. The world has endured one Hitler. We don’t need another.

[onetexan]

58. +1 K&R

[Vinca]

55. I'm afraid I wish them only misery, but I'm good with everything else.

There is no way to properly atone for what he has done to this country. If he had one cell of decency both he and Pence would resign today.

[cp]

59. K&R

[Toorich]

61. Thanks.............

...............many thanks.

you're absolutely right.

I only wish Hunter S. Thompson was here to write the Tangerine Turd's obit.

[Lock him up.]

62. There is no person in America that has done more to spread Covid than @realDonaldTrump

... and sean in$-hannity and limbaugh and sinclair and oann and mostly the execs-fux at fux neeee-yuzzzz as they ALL have their gReedy hand$ SOAKED in an OCEAN of INNOCENT AMERICAN BLOOD.

LOCK.THEM.UP!

[Lock him up.]

63. Oh, I forgot... JACK DORSEY... nt

[napi21]

65. Steve is the best orator we've got. I know he was a Pub, but before he returns to them, I HOPE

he trains someone to think & put wotds together like he does..

[Pepsidog]

66. I hope Biden's people reading this. No let up.

[Blue Owl]

70. I actually don't want tRump to recover

I want him to die before the election, so there can be no chance of him stealing 4 more years from us. I wanna see him suffer, haunted by demons, delirious from pain, and confronted by the horror he has wreaked upon every other Covid victim, every child separated from their parents, and every fallen soldier he's called a sucker or loser. I wanna see that motherfucker DESTROYED.

[marble falls]

72. Another Steve Schmidt homerun.

[Progressive Jones]

73. DAYUM !!! He let loose !!! nt