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The Bulwark Podcast

Ben Wittes: Americans Elected a Serial Criminal to Be President

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Trump trials were a cosmic democratic disaster, and the justice system did not do justice: Trump was not treated in the same way as other people who've stolen classified docs or tried to overthrow the election—and his conviction and indictments made him more qualified in MAGA's eyes. Plus, the Sotomayor/SCOTUS issue, aiding Ukraine before January 20, and avoiding the sound of Trump's voice.

Ben Wittes joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

show notes

Ben's column, "Were the Trump Trials Pointless?"
Tim's playlist  

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I wanted to share with you a few scheduling notes and kind of how I'm thinking about the podcast over the next little bit.

0:07.1

So firstly, today we're doing a next level podcast with me and JVL and Sarah.

0:11.9

Today we're taping on Friday.

0:13.7

Usually that's out on Wednesdays, but we put that in here in the Boulark Daily feed.

0:18.5

So if you want more of me and JVL and Sarah's thoughts, head on over to the next level podcast feed, and that will be up

0:24.3

late on Friday. I'm also taping a bonus podcast with James Carville to keep an eye out for

0:32.1

this weekend. We wanted to do an update for his team, I think some of which is going to show in the James Carville

0:38.0

documentary, which is really good, by the way, if you haven't seen it, I think you can get it

0:42.1

on Max at this point or maybe in a theater near you. Lastly, for this podcast, you know,

0:50.0

it's tough right now having to do this. I'm really grateful for all of you guys. It's been kind of

0:55.9

crazy how many people are listening. I did not begrudge anybody feeling like they need to check

1:00.6

out from this for a little while, but I also want to be here for people that are looking for

1:04.9

community. And so in that spirit, I just wanted to tell you how I'm thinking about it.

1:09.6

Like there are three main buckets of

1:11.2

things I want to do. One is continue to have the conversation about what the opposition to Trump

1:19.3

might have done better or might have done differently and kind of have on people who have different

1:24.1

perspectives on that. I want to have on some of the Democratic candidates that

1:27.8

won and outperformed Kamla. I see if they have particularly ones that I think might have interesting

1:32.3

perspectives on how the Democrats could have acted differently. I'm going to have on some populist

1:37.1

lefties, who some of their ideas might not align with mine, but I think it's a worthwhile

1:42.3

conversation about the future direction.

1:45.6

I want to have on people that from the Democratic Coalition who think that maybe it's

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