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The Next Level

1016: Trump CRIES Over Crab Legs! RICO Against PROTESTERS?! Free Speech Is DEAD!

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Tim, Sarah and JVL are BACK! Trump’s allies want to charge protesters with RICO, Kash Patel stonewalls, Trump plays the victim, and MAGA world spins truly nuts new conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:25.8

and then Trump's allies get all the money.

0:31.6

Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friends, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark.

0:39.3

Guys, we are...

0:40.9

Settle in, baby.

0:42.1

Settle in.

0:42.5

We got a show.

0:44.3

We got a show for you.

0:46.1

It can't be two hours.

0:48.8

We are going to start with Todd Blanche, the man who sat down with Gila Maxwell and really heard everything

0:57.9

she had to say and then possibly facilitated her transfer to Club Fed.

1:03.8

Who could say? I don't know if they really did that, but he was there in the room where it happened.

1:07.5

And he went on CNN to talk with Caitlin Collins about the possibility

1:12.7

of filing a RICO case against the four women at Joe Stonecrab, who yelled at the president.

1:20.3

Guys, let's roll the tape. RICO is available to all kinds of organizations committing crimes and

1:26.0

committing wrongful acts, not just organized crime

1:28.7

or ISIS or terrorist organizations. And so it depends. So is it, again, sheer happenstance

1:34.5

that individuals show up at a restaurant where the president is trying to enjoy dinner in Washington,

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