Raw Story: 'Things will get bad': Ex-GOP insider predicts Trump's 'mental illness' is profound threat

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - 'Things will get bad': Ex-GOP insider predicts Trump's 'mental illness' is profound threat

Jennifer Bowers Bahney
April 4, 2025 12:12PM ET

Former GOP insider Steve Schmidt, who worked for prominent Republicans like former President George W. Bush and the late Sen. John McCain, has written a damning assessment of Donald Trump and the "shame" he has brought to America.

In a new Substack article, Schmidt claimed that the "crisis" facing America is based completely on Trump's character and psychology, which precludes him from ever being told "no" or that he is "wrong."

Schmidt claimed it's the same mentality that drew Trump to billionaire Elon Musk, because like recognizes like.

"They are predators, takers and extremists, who inflict misery based on whim because they feel entitled for no reason other than their disordered personalities and inability to feel emotion or empathy," Schmidt wrote of Trump and Musk. "Their mental illness is not only America’s burden. It is now a profound threat."

Schmidt wrote that because Trump can never be wrong, "The American people will be told increasingly what is happening to their savings, security and pensions is someone’s fault — not Trump’s. Then they will be told it is their fault. It will never be Donald Trump’s fault. Ever."

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[global1]

1. And Schmidt Could Have Written Or Said This Before The November Election.....

what good does this do us now?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. He said similar stuff before the election. I think you weren't paying attention. . . . nt

[Grumpy Old Guy]

6. He has been saying this for several years.

He has been very vocal about it.

[flashman13]

8. He has been saying variations of this for years now. That's why he calls it The Warning.

Guess you missed it. Could that have been because far to many Democrats were busy insisting that Biden couldn't possibly lose while the storm clouds gathered?

[Hekate]

12. Steve Schmidt has been amazingly consistent for 10 years. Sorry you missed it.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. He did and he's not alone.

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. Dr. Bandy Lee has been screaming this into a wind tunnel for eons!

You're absolutely right. Sooooo many others have been saying exactly this for quite some time now.

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. He and many others have been saying this for almost a decade.

[Wiz Imp]

17. Um. He did. He's been saying this stuff for years.

He wrote this in October.

"Catastrophe" will strike the U.S. if Donald Trump wins in November, warns Steve Schmidt, former political strategist for ex-President George W. Bush.

Schmidt wrote in his newsletter, The Warning with Steve Schmidt, that the country could face a national crisis, depending on the results of the November 5 presidential election, due to Trump's repeated attacks on the "American way of life" and efforts to destroy it.

"There is catastrophe ahead if Trump wins," Schmidt said. "The United States faces a national emergency because a presidential candidate and former president has attacked the cornerstones of the American way of life, and is trying to topple them for the purposes of taking political power. He is a world-class liar and manipulator who sought to destroy the American government, which he betrayed by rejecting the results of the election he lost and the oath of office he took."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-steve-schmidt-catastrophe-election-lies-maga-1971408

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

2. 🤡

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Link to Steve Schmidt's original substack article:

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/trump-has-brought-shame-to-america?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=2j0en6&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Fighting back is required — just as victory over this insanity is inevitable. It’s just that it was all so unnecessary, but cynicism carries a heavy price.

It has purchased Donald Trump for America.

The price will be brutal.

The lessons will be enduring.

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Stock pundits are saying "USA is doing greatest economic self-harm in history." . . . nt

[dalton99a]

9. He's probably got what his KKK slumlord father had before he went home to Satan

[Maj. Dude]

10. And then,

We get vance and First Lady musk... fml

On edit. No, F them and all they bow down to.

[calimary]

11. Oh, THAT'LL fix everything.

[wiggs]

14. Correct. And 'disordered personality' should be a term used everyday and in every article about the

damage he's causing. I don't know why MSM isn't describing the long history of failure, smallness, incompetence, weirdness, cruelty, lack of empathy, and mental symptoms of a person with this much power. Real context is important...yet MSM is searching for imaginary rational context elsewhere (maybe this will work out? Maybe he has a plan? Maybe he really is an expert in global economics? Let's hear from our panel!)

Questions should be asked, constantly. It's an emergency.

[ellise]

19. Acknowledged Many Times..

It has been said over and over that he is mentally challenged…by hundreds of psychologists, psychiatrists and other professionals who are able to detect mental illness but nobody is listening.. so what now..his eyes tell the story.

[Hekate]

21. The media I watch has been saying this for years. DU links are great but many DUers want TV. Well, the info was there

…Years ago. The interviews with eminent psychiatrists have been on TV as well.

[democrank]

18. I just read reply #3 for the fourth time

The price will be brutal………

[keep_left]

20. What Schmidt writes reminds me of what Pete Townshend...

...(The Who) said many years ago about the countless young musicians who lost their lives in the '60s and '70s (and beyond). In this case, Townshend wasn't speaking of psychopathic politicians or industrialists, just creative people who were living sad, dissipated lives. But what he said has stuck with me over the years: these people (e.g. Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison) were insulated from a real, authentic life by yes-men, publicists, producers, and no small number of hangers-on and gold-diggers. In Townshend's words, "they had no one to go home to, and there was never anyone to say 'No!' ".

That last part is crucial with all the psychopaths we're seeing ascend the commanding heights of corporate and state power. There's never anyone to say "No!", regardless of how many get hurt or how asinine their plans become.