The Warning with Steve Schmidt Steve Schmidt: Donald Trump Is Getting Desperate
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Mar 26, 2026 A fierce take on ICE agents being deployed to airports and the DHS shutdown's fallout. A call for legal accountability over recent police shootings is raised. Discussion of congressional efforts to condition funding to rein in ICE tactics. Critique of political messaging around law-and-order moves and broader patterns of manufactured crises.
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ICE Acting Like A Secret Police
- ICE has been operating like a secret police with masked, unmarked agents deployed domestically during the shutdown.
- Steve Schmidt points to masked agents, non-identification, and unmarked cars as novel, totalitarian tactics introduced under Donald Trump that threaten civil liberties.
Require Judicial Warrants For ICE Operations
- Condition homeland security funding on judicial oversight like requiring ICE to get warrants from judges.
- Schmidt explicitly supports legislative constraints: judicial warrants and limits on masks and non-identification for ICE operations.
Judicial Warrants Safeguard Accountability
- Judicial warrants differ fundamentally from administrative warrants because a judge finds probable cause before approval.
- Schmidt stresses judges, prosecutors, and courts do not wear masks; judicial oversight protects democratic norms and accountability.