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Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt swore the American people will eventually come face to face with the colossal depths of President Donald Trump’s corruption and the fraud of his administration’s top lieutenants
Schmidt was a guest on Jim Acosta’s Friday “Jim Acosta Show” podcast when the conversation veered from the Supreme Court’s Friday decision to yank Trump’s illegal exploitation of an emergency order to impose tariffs at his whim.
“Seems to me a part of this is … that the Supreme Court, under John Roberts, released this Frankenstein, and now they don’t know how to reign him in. They’ve tried to cut him off at the pass [on some things] but John Roberts is responsible for this mess,” Acosta said.
“The Roberts court has destabilized our American society through partisan rulings,” said Schmidt, who’d worked on the GOP campaigns of President George W. Bush, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen, John McCain. “We have a corrupt Supreme Court with [Judge Samuel] Alito’s misconduct, Clarence Thomas’s misconduct, flying around with all these billionaire extremist doners from here to there and everywhere.”
“The court has lost its reputation for a reason,” continued Schmidt, “and now we have Trump’s visage looming down at the American people from the Department of Justice, which is a corrupt institution that can’t be trusted, filled with corrupt prosecutor who abuse their oath, abuse the Constitution, and abuse the American people in the name of power.”
“Every single detail of every despicable act is going to be known. Just not later today,” Schmidt told Acosta.
Schmidt also referenced the exorbitant jet plane that U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem uses to travel around the country. NBC News reported a brochure highlighted the plane’s “exceptional interior design by renowned New York designer Peter Marino,” complete with a sumptuous bed.
Acosta described the plane as resembling Austin Powers’ “shag jet.”
“It’s the Air F—— One,” Schmidt spat in agreement, while also demanding to know why Noem had “thousands of dollars in cash in her purse when it was stolen from a Washington restaurant.”
“Explain to me how Noem — who lives on a government salary and who’s husband is in crop insurance — is wearing a $50k Rolex while posing in front of prisoners in an El Salvadoran concentration camp,” Schmidt said. “We’re gonna find out the details of every financial transgression and every corrupt act from every one of these people. All of them.”