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How Meeting ‘Fascist’ Trump Will Shame King Charles: Political Strategist
April 26, 2026
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Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesKing Charles III’s royal visit to the White House is a concerning sign of where his true allegiance lies, one political strategist has claimed.Steve Schmidt, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and the Save America Movement, warned that the British monarch’s state visit to the U.S.—which kicks off in Washington on Monday and includes time spent with Donald Trump—will be seen as hypocritical amid his brother’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.“Charles is putting the crown into a position of: Hey, when I’m on English soil, I condemn my brother,” Schmidt told the Daily Beast’s Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty.
“But when I am on American soil, I make clear that really what Andrew did in the issue at hand is that he got caught.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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