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Trump's Qatari "Gift" Is Proof Of Bribes From Foreign Governments
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May 14, 2025
While the American public screams for accountability in the White House, Trump is off in the Middle East behaving like a supplicant to Arab leaders. Steve Schmidt looks at the reaction to Trump's luxury plane "gift" and explains the cost of being bribed by foreign governments. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Store: https://thewarningwithsteveschmidt.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES
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It is Tuesday, May the 13th
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This is the warning. The corruption the American people are witnessing, that they are being told is constitutional
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that they are being told is legal, that they are being told is proper, is anything but
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What we are witnessing are acts of obscenity, indecency, acts of corruption and taking, entitlement fueled by arrogance that is without any precedent in the
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entire 250-year history of the United States. There is no comparable period of corruption
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There is no similar era of taking of government gangsterism, government banditry
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On the wildest of Wild West Main Streets, has there been anything approaching the rampant
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illegality and unconstitutional arrogance of this crooked administration? There are no words
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Britt Baer, traveling with America's gangster president to the oil-rich sheikdoms, where they will ply him, those Arab sheiks, with diamonds and gold and watches
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and all manner of tokens that are meaningless to the people that control the world's oil supplies
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What they want, what they'll buy at any cost, are America's weapons
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So Donald Trump has come hat in hand like a beggar. On his knees, an American president, a supplicant, detached from the dignity of his office
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A in a brothel, servicing his Arab masters. And so Trump on his knees is fetid
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Now, the key to negotiating with Trump, to taking from him, taking from us, taking from the country, is very simple
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Just make the Donald feel important. Give him and his presidential limo a horse-drawn escort
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Never mind that 15 of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia that attacked the United States on 9-11
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Never mind the Washington Post reporter dismembered on the orders of the crown prince
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Never mind all that because there is business to be done There is gold in that desert sand And so Donald Trump is accompanied by his oligarchs the men who wish to be kings or at least to have their
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own duchies for now. Men like Sam Altman, who want to collect optical scans of everybody's irises
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And incredibly, people can't sign up fast enough to deliver it. Does anybody in the Democratic leadership have any handle on the data that Elon Musk took
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that he has on every American taxpayer, on every American citizen in a free country who
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is entitled to privacy when it comes to their relationship with the state
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The United States government has no right to keep files on each and every one of us
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coordinated, coagulated together by Elon Musk and a coterie of 18, 19, 20
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mid-20s-year-old henchmen and women? No. Is that for sale in Saudi Arabia? Is that for sale
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to the Emiratis, to the Qataris? And what a loathsome country that is
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Now, the Qataris have gone for it. And what they should ponder is the reassessment in American
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relations that is likely to come. Four years may seem like an eternity in the hot and blazing sun
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of the Arabian desert, but it's not so long when you think about it. When you think about time
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like grains of sand in that desert accumulating over billions of years, four years in the story
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of time is very short. In four years, in the story of this period of corruption that will be dealt
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with, that will be repudiated, that will be burned to the ground with the righteous might and anger of
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the American people, it will not seem like it lasted so long in retrospect. It will prove the
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proposition that the days are long, but the years are short. And so the Qataris who have bribed
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Donald Trump with a $400 million that looks like it was decorated by a pimp to fly the president
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of the United States, their supplicant, around as he delivers weapons to them, as he approves
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their natural gas projects in the state of Texas. Well, maybe there's a different future for the
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primary hosts and financiers of Hamas who play a double game better than anybody in
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the Middle East. These people who have decided to trifle through their bribery through their excess through their arrogance the President of the United States and thus in doing so assault the American Constitution and assault the American people
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How dare they? And so, what I see is a future where there is no longer a military presence in Qatar
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where military officers are banned from giving assistance to the Qatari military, when the
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leadership of the Qatari nation is unable to bank in the United States, unable to travel
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to the United States and faces sanctioned by the government of the United States
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What I see is a future where an American president looks at these countries and understands that
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we need nothing from them. Let them lie in bed with the Chinese
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Who cares? I could be a stupid person and say, oh, no, we don't want a free plane
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We give free things. We'll take one, too. And it helps us out
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In the end, the United States is a nation that is distinguished from these countries by our values, by our ideas, by our ideals
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And what Donald Trump sees is a commonality of corruption and greed and excess and a disregard for human rights
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What he sees is transactions. What he sees is a philosophy where the king may treat his subjects
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like an insect and demand gratitude from them. What he sees is power, the power of the state
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to declare what God would do, what God says is right in the form of political decisions
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inflicted on the people by the lash or the cane, or in the case of Saudi Arabia
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the stoning or the beheading. This is a repressive, regressive regime, antithetical to America's
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values, complicit in the 9-11 attack that Donald Trump would never, ever dare to declassify the
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materials around because of whom it would implicate at the highest levels of the Saudi regime
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But make no mistake, for every firefighter who died, for every cop who died, just one more assault by Donald Trump
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What we are seeing is unprecedented in the history of the United States
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What we are seeing is grotesque. What we're seeing is gaslighting. And so when Donald Trump says this to an ABC News reporter, it confirms what Brett Baier said up front
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I just don't think that this president, just listening to his answers today Jillian, cares
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that much. He doesn't care. Mr President what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you Why not leave it behind You ABC fake news right Why not Only ABC Well a few of you would Let me tell you you should be embarrassed asking that
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question. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us. I want to pay you
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a billion or 400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say, thank you very much
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But the question doesn't matter if he cares or not. The question is for the American people
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Do you care? Do you care about the arrogance of these people threatening to seize Americans off
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the street, to punish people who would dare to come to the United States because they don't wish
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to kneel in front of Donald Trump or stand up and salute him? This shameful period will yield
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and it will yield under the crushing weight and the righteous anger of the American people who
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are slow to anger but will not stand for this insanity, this corruption, this excess, this
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assault on the plain meaning and words of the Constitution declared null and void by a woman
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who is being paid $115,000 a month as a registered agent of the Arab thagocracy until she decides
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that their bribes are legal and that up is down and down is up and right is left and left is right
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No. This is a moment that requires faithfulness to higher ideas than the one that says Trump can
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do whatever he wants because he won an election with 49.9% of the vote. No. What is at stake
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is fundamental. It's beyond the price. It's ephemeral. It's holy. It's our liberty. And Donald
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Trump may think he is unrestrained, surrounded by sycophants and yes-men who are sneering at us
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laughing at us, filled with the type of dangerous arrogance that is seen once or twice a century
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In less than two years' time, the American people have it within their power
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And it isn't just within their power. It's deeply part of their obligation and responsibility to wipe the smirk off of these people's faces
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