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The Bulwark Podcast

Ben Wittes and Anna Bower: Trump's Reparations Demand

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The convicted felon was legitimately prosecuted for hoarding classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. And he was justifiably investigated over the numerous contacts he and his associates had with Russian nationals during 2016. But Trump feels he has endured so much pain and suffering from all the probing that he's owed a quarter of a billion dollars in damages from hard-working American taxpayers. Meanwhile, his hired tool of revenge, Lindsey Halligan, is hard at work pursuing really weak cases against Comey and Tish James when she's not sending mean girl texts.
 
Lawfare's Anna Bower and Ben Wittes join Tim Miller.

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Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We got a Lawfare doubleheader today.

0:37.6

Your friend Ben Wittis will be up here in about 15.

0:40.9

But first, we had to talk to the woman of the hour, senior editor at Lawfare, Anna Bauer.

0:45.8

You got some interesting texts, some signal messages last week.

0:50.5

Yeah.

0:51.6

It's been a weird, weird, weird two weeks.

0:56.0

And it started with me on a Saturday afternoon.

1:00.2

I was, I say this in the piece.

1:02.4

I was in my pajamas at 1.20 p.m. in the afternoon because I was having a very rare day off of just kind of like lounging around.

1:11.6

That's a great life. What's that life? Talk to me about that.

1:15.6

Well, it never happens for me. And then right in the middle of it all, finally, relaxing about to watch the Netflix, I get a message from someone who says that they are Lindsay Halligan, the United

1:29.3

States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, who is prosecuting the president's perceived

1:34.1

political enemy. So that took my Saturday for a very interesting turn. Indeed. When you got

1:40.3

that message that came in on Signal, or she says, hey, it's Lindsay Allegan.

1:45.2

Did you think it was a prank call? You think it was Ben Wittest Pranking you?

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