Posted on 10/21/2019 10:28:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Steve Schmidt, an ex-Republican strategist who worked for President George W. Bush and the late Senator John McCain, has slammed President Donald Trump and his administration for its "corruption."
"The corruption is just unbelievable. And if you look back to the Republican convention, Joe, when we talked about it at the time, the chants of lock them upwhat I said about it at the time was it was banana republicanism," Schmidt told MSNBC host Joe Scarborough during his Morning Joe show on Monday.
"And the descent from the American republican into banana republic territory with all of this stuff has just been so stunningly fast, and the lack of outrage by elected members of Congress properly exercising their constitutional oversight responsibilities is just alarming," said Schmidt, who now identifies as an independent.
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Remember when Rove was the Magnificent Bastard? Now I’m realizing Rove was a magnificent conman and hack, as are his top students of Schmidt and Wallace.
Did he name a specific corrupt act? (crickets)
They sure know which shows are going to welcome their baloney, don’t they?
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By late 2000, Schmidt was communications director of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.[19][20]
In 2001, he was the spokesman of the National Republican Congressional Committee,[21] becoming the Communications Director by 2002.
Schmidt joined the Bush administration as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2004, he was a member of the senior strategic planning group, led by White House adviser Karl Rove, that ran President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign; Schmidt oversaw the reelection “war room”.[16] In 2005 and 2006, he was the White House strategist responsible for the U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Samuel Alito[22] and Chief Justice John Roberts.[16]
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In April 2012, Gillespie became a senior advisor to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.[32]
WASHINGTON, July 23 - Ed Gillespie, the White House commando in charge of the selling of Judge John G. Roberts for a seat on the highest court in the land, was settled into his temporary West Wing office on Friday with a ready army and almost no enemy to fight.
Some war room: the telephones were silent, Fox News was unwatched in a corner, no aides bustled in and out. With Congress gone for another sultry weekend, it was just Mr. Gillespie and his sidekick, Steve Schmidt, a top adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney who is moonlighting as the communications director in the Roberts sales campaign.
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In 1999, Gillespie worked as the Press Secretary for the Presidential campaign of John Kasich until his withdrawal from the race and endorsement of George W. Bush.[13]
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