Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

21st Century America. Black markets are created when products are scarce, prohibited or excessively taxed. All drive organized crime activity. When government takes actions that will drive smuggling and black market activity it is worth a minute to think about the Eric Garners — PolitiTweet.org

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was selling loose cigarettes, out of packs without Tax Stamps. NYPD officers approached Garner and enforced the law. Garner was suffocated to death. What is the reality of the events that brought police officers into enforcement contact with a man selling loose cigarettes in — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m all for cigarette taxes and believe as a general proposition that the more you tax something, the less you get of it. Yet, cigarette taxes aren’t a panacea and can have terrible consequences as laws are enforced on the streets of America. Eric Garner was killed because he — PolitiTweet.org

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wretched moment and the security of the country requires an apolitical military. He became ensnared in a type of tribal war that even Green Beret’s aren’t trained for. He is the highest ranking officer in the most esteemed institution in the country. I suspect he will step up. — PolitiTweet.org

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He will remain under a relentless, ruthless and dishonest partisan siege from deep within a box canyon. There is no way out for him. A politicized Chairman is a disaster for the prestige, integrity and readiness of the US Military. He can’t conceivably do his duty in this — PolitiTweet.org

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I think that is both good news and more information than we had yesterday. Bi-lateral contact and exchanges are an important part of America’s diplomatic strategy in which the US Military plays a giant role. The issue for Milley is the total politicization of his Chairmanship. — PolitiTweet.org

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Read it 👇. It is a great book by a great writer — PolitiTweet.org

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be an election. The choice will be decisive and the weapons in a war against liars and misinformation will be the truth and facts. That will be Milley’s final battle. It’s the one he will be remembered by. — PolitiTweet.org

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live in a free country. I had the Privilege of standing in the American Cemetery in Normandy with my son and explaining to him that the 22 year old lying in the grave in front of him died so that he could be free. It isn’t combat that will determine our progenies fate. It will — PolitiTweet.org

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Anti-American insanity that transpired in the WH between election night and Inauguration Day. We cannot look away from this and Milley cannot tell the whole truth while wearing a uniform. Trump will soon be a candidate again. That election will decide if our grandchildren — PolitiTweet.org

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in this particular startling moment. First, Congress should issue no more waivers for recently retired four star officers to become SecDef. The absolute primacy of civilian control should be reasserted. Second, there is no detail too small to be discussed around the — PolitiTweet.org

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weapon to fight back against the multitude of disgraces he witnessed while proximate to Trump. Trump badly damaged the US Military with his toxic incompetence and constant politicization. This must be rectified. There are many issues that should be faced head on and addressed — PolitiTweet.org

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General Milley should resign and explain his actions, worries, concerns and fears to the country in his resignation statement. He should talk about the role of the US Military in our society and he should example the virtues that he has championed all his life as a type of — PolitiTweet.org

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is no excuse why no action has been taken by the Democratic Majority to fix this issue and thousands more to harden the Democracy infrastructure of the Federal Government so that it could better restrain a lawless President, his corrupt family, cronies and loathsome factotum. — PolitiTweet.org

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an “Acting” capacity. Orders under that reality would flow from the unbalanced and unhinged Trump through his stooge, directly to the combatant commanders. This is what @mccaffreyr3 was talking about during his frightening comments on @DeadlineWH with @NicolleDWallace. There — PolitiTweet.org

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The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has no command authority. He/She is the Senior Ranking Officer in the US Military and the Senior military advisor to the President. During the weeks of chaos described in “Peril” the Pentagon was being led by a Trump stooge serving in — PolitiTweet.org

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wrong but remaining in a post that will weaken the institution he has spent his life serving would be the wrong thing to do and there is little evidence in the record of General Milley doing the wrong thing. There are specific issues that must be understood around the reporting. — PolitiTweet.org

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recognize-able. Civilian control of the US Military must remain sacrosanct. The US Military must remain not just above politics, but beyond it. It must be apolitical as a first virtue and that virtue must be exampled by the Senior Uniformed Officer. Milley has done nothing — PolitiTweet.org

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1. More information and detail is required around the reporting in the book. The necessity for oversight hearings around these issues cannot be overstated. 2. Milley, through little fault of his own, has been politicized beyond repair. It is not fixable, though it is immediately — PolitiTweet.org

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for doing the right thing. Sometimes the right thing to do involves breaking procedures, processes and rules. Sometimes the circumstances are so exigent that bad choices become the best option in a menu of worse alternatives. Two, things are crystal clear at this moment. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a moment where we face a reality that is particularly grim given the advance of extremism, fascism, misinformation and lunacy into every crevice of our culture. Though, he committed no misconduct or dishonorable act, Milley must resign. Sometimes, there are consequences — PolitiTweet.org

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@costareports it appears that Milley did what he was trained to do, he improvised, adapted and adjusted. He did what the young Officers, NCO’s and soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and allied forces did for a generation, he tried to solve problems and make things better. — PolitiTweet.org

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unlike a young Army Captain trying to navigate a millennia of blood enmities in a mountainous Afghan village where she doesn’t understand the culture, language, motives, history, or people she is facing. It is an utterly alien world. According to “Peril” by @realBobWoodward and — PolitiTweet.org

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the toxic politics of Washington where lesser men like Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and dozens more can slander him at will on @rupertmurdoch’s lie machine and watch that lie travel at the speed of light through a network of interconnected disinformation hubs. He is not 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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impossible situation, surrounded by a phalanx of liars, hypocrites, grandstanders and sunshine Patriots who have betrayed their oaths, abandoned their commitment to democracy and desecrated the blood sacrifices of 14 generations of American Patriots. He has become entangled in 4 — PolitiTweet.org

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in combat with valor and has never done one thing in 41 years of uniformed service that would lead any person of good faith and good will to question his honor, commitment to duty, probity, rectitude and loyalty to the United States. Yet, the General finds himself in an 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Americans into impossible, treacherous and lethal circumstances. Mark Milley, a Princeton graduate who volunteered to serve his country in uniform has risen to the highest possible position in his chosen profession. He has commanded soldiers at every conceivable level, served 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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During the last 20 years, starting with CIA Officer, Johnny Micheal Spann, the first American killed in combat in Afghanistan and including General Mark Milley’s fellow Green Berets who charged the Taliban on horseback, the United States has placed hundreds of thousands of young — PolitiTweet.org

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him it should definitely scare all the rest of us. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@mccaffreyr3 received three awards of the Purple Heart, two awards of the Silver Star and two awards of the nations second highest valor medal, the Distinguished Service Cross during a distinguished military career where he rose to four star rank. When he says something scares — PolitiTweet.org