Adam Kinzinger: The First Family's Corruption Is Mind-Blowing
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Fox News wouldn't shut up about Hunter and Burisma, but its viewers aren't likely to hear any criticism of Eric and Don Jr. raking it in through government contracts approved by the Trump administration. Unlike in Hunter's case, the U.S. government is paying millions of dollars to the president's sons. Plus, Trump is losing the information war on Iran, Bibi is oddly chummy with Putin—given his alliance with Israel's enemy Iran, the nation's debt is larger than our GDP, the governor of Louisiana is outright assaulting democracy, and Kinzinger explains why we need to celebrate heroes. Adam Kinzinger joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
show notes
- Preorder Kinzinger's new children’s book, “That's What Heroes Do"
- Kinzinger's Substack
- FT story on the Trump sons/Kazakhistan company deal
- WSJ story on Trump sons/drone company deal
- Tim's playlist
- Tickets for our Bulwark Live shows in San Diego on 5/20 and LA on 5/12: TheBulwark.com/Events
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller, delighted. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:16.3 | One of our Faves, former member of Congress from Illinois. He served in the Air Force and International Guard. |
| 0:20.2 | He's on Substack. |
| 0:21.8 | And he's the author of a new children's book out next week. |
| 0:24.5 | That's what heroes do. |
| 0:26.9 | It's Adam Kinsinger. |
| 0:28.1 | Hey. |
| 0:28.5 | Just kind of the male fatherly urge to propagandized children. |
| 0:35.1 | Consumed you. |
| 0:35.8 | That's right. |
| 0:36.6 | About you can help people. Like, that's my propaganda. My propaganda is not, you know, Thomas the Turtle rides on the back of Trump to victory. It's just like, hey, you kids can be a hero. Just live for something bigger than yourself. Okay. My page through it. So I'm going to have some notes for you at the end of the show, but we've got some news to talk about first. |
| 0:55.6 | Okay, perfect. |
| 0:56.2 | Sounds good. |
| 0:56.8 | I want to start with Iran. |
| 1:11.3 | And I think it's important to frame a couple of the topics around Iran around something. And I don't want to slur you. So I think this is true about you. I kind of joke about how I'm a former neocon or a covering neocon. |
| 1:14.2 | You kind of still are a neocon, right? |
| 1:11.3 | I mean, basically. I kind of joke about how I'm a former neocon or a recovering neocon. |
| 1:14.1 | You kind of still are a neocon, right? |
| 1:15.8 | I mean, basically, basically. |
| 1:16.3 | Kind of. You know, kind of. |
| 1:17.2 | At least, you're in the milieu, at least. |
| 1:20.1 | You know? |
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