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Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt had a sharp message for outgoing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday.

Schmidt, a co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, argued that Leavitt would leave behind a legacy that would someday haunt her children — and that she would have to face her role in President Donald Trump's regime.

"This is the face the whole world knew was lying," Schmidt said. "It is a face of degeneracy, an ugly, twisted face that spewed poison nobody ever thought possible that could ever leak from this White House or any White House."...

Former Republican insider Steve Schmidt argued on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's biggest fear is someone who tries to hold him accountable — like CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

In his podcast and video series "The Warning," the co-founder of the anti-Trump organization, The Lincoln Project, compared Trump's "Trojan horse" move in Turkey, where he left journalists and his own aides as "bait on the chum plane" under a credible threat, to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. He juxtaposed this with the moment FDR learned that a torpedo was fired at the USS Iowa, where he rushed to the rail to see it coming towards the ship.

"When he was aboard a presidential aircraft flying with Dwight Eisenhower sitting next to him shortly after giving him command of the D-Day operation with the hydraulics out on the airplane, FDR lit a cigarette, threw his head back and laughed at all of it," Schmidt said, citing a book from Rick Atkinson that describes the incident....

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt argued on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's physical decline and incoherence have been mounting.

In a new video, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project discussed how Trump's executive order this week to overhaul the childhood vaccine recommendations was a serious blow to American health as the president's health decline has been on full display.

"It's a real danger for America's children and their families because nobody knows what's up or down or right or left," Schmidt said. "We can all tell, however, there's something wrong with him. Donald Trump is turning into Jabba the Hutt right before our eyes. He can't sit up, stay awake. He can neither walk upstairs nor downstairs. He's incoherent."...

A former Republican operative slammed a GOP leader's planned tell-all and the idea that it would do anything by targeting Trump.

During an episode of The Jim Acosta Show, Steve Schmidt discussed the GOP's failure to stand up to President Donald Trump as they moved to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Schmidt brought up that Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is planning to write a book that goes after the Trump administration, and said it would be meaningless as long as Republicans like Tillis fall in line behind Trump's Justice Department.

"When there are people like Thom Tillis, who says he's going to write a book, exposing the degeneracy of the MAGA insiders, MAGATs he calls them. He's a maggot," Schmidt said. "He's on their team. He showers with Stephen Miller. What doesn't Thom Tillis understand about that? He scratches his back. They share a towel."...

A former Republican operative on Thursday disclosed how the growing scandal around Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) and the abuse allegations has revealed a harsh reality MAGA has tried to conceal.

Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project, explained that inside MAGA, Trump allies have pledged their loyalty to the president — no matter what.

Schmidt referred to Miller as a growing problem for the GOP with "a nuclear distemper problem," referring to the accusations that Miller poured boiling hot water on his ex-wife, Emily Moreno — the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) — and allegedly broke his 2-year-old daughter's collarbone....

A former Republican strategist warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's Iran conflict is the beginning of a "larger war."

Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, outlined how Trump's ongoing military "quagmire," the "corrupt charade" of his attacks on American citizen David Hearn — which failed in court — and Trump's rage "at the Westchester wino" Jeanine Pirro have all revealed what could come next.

"She'll be gone soon, just like the Secretary of War, so-called, who's lost the war to Iran," Schmidt said, suggesting both Pirro and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could be replaced....