MADISON, Wis. — In a recently uncovered video raising questions about far-right Brad Schimel’s temperament, Schimel admitted to having “psychologically beat the daylights out” of his 8-year-old daughter and emotionally shutting his family out of his life.

The deeply bizarre anecdote was shared during a speech in 2018 to a group of police chaplains. For some reason, Schimel admitted to interrogating his daughter like a suspect when she was caught in a white lie, causing her to start “crying miserably.”

Meidas Touch News: Brad Schimel Admitted to Having “Psychologically Beat the Daylights Out” Of His 8-Year-Old Daughter

• Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel once admitted to emotionally shutting out his wife and children, interrogating his daughter like a criminal suspect, and treating his home life like an extension of the courtroom. In a revealing story to a police chaplain group in 2018, Schimel recalled asking his wife, Sandi, for permission to run for attorney general—expecting her to say no.
   
• She called him out for putting up walls, saying their daughters wanted to tell him about their day, but “they couldn’t, and it was not fair” to them. Schimel admitted, “I blocked it out, but that wasn’t fair to her that I shut out what was such a big part of my life. I shut her completely out.”
   
• Worse, Sandi told him, “You don’t talk to your kids. You interrogate your kids.” Schimel then recounted a disturbing moment where he treated his 8-year-old daughter like a hostile witness. Adjusting his rearview mirror so she couldn’t look away, he forced her into a confession. Schimel stated:
   
• “And then she said, the one she really zinged me. She said you don’t talk to your kids. You interrogate your kids.
   
• “And she reminded me of a story that I cannot deny. We had picked up our oldest, McKenzie, at a friend’s house, and there’d been a fib.
   
• “I don’t know what the fib was anymore, but she told a fib about something and she was denying that she had fibbed. So this car ride home, I’m going to get her on the witness stand.
   
• “So she’s in the backseat. I adjusted the mirror so I’m looking right at her and she’s looking right at me. And any time she looks away I say look at me.
   
• “And I don’t think I looked at the road the whole way. And I got her back there and I’m grilling her about this and I’m rebutting every fib she piles on the fib.
   
• “And I got a Perry Mason moment right there in my car. She broke down: I did it. I did it. I did it.
   
• “And, I won my trial. She is, next witness, you know. Rest my case. Well, she’s in the back seat. She is just crying miserably.
   
• “My wife’s looking at me like I’m a monster, and I was proud of myself. I just beat up on a, she’s probably 8. I just beat. I just psychologically beat the daylights out of an 8-year-old in the back seat.
   
• “That was great. Um, so that’s why she said she gave me permission to run which changed my plan because I wasn’t planning to run.” 
   
• Schimel was “proud” of having “psychologically beat the daylights out” of his 8-year-old daughter. Sandi made a request that Brad change his awful behavior toward his wife and two daughters.