Ben Wittes and Eric Cortellessa: Trump's Autocratic Agenda

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Trump went on the record, explaining how in a second term, his staff would only be (election denying) loyalists, he'd run a massive deportation operation, and states could freely monitor women's pregnancies. Meanwhile, evidence of his election interference in 2016 piles up in New York. Ben Wittes and Eric Cortellessa join Tim Miller.

show notes:

Trump Makes the Cover of Time magazine
Trump interview transcript
Lawfare's NY Trial Dispatch, Week 2
The Next Level episode mentioned by Ben

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. It's May 1st how How is it May 1st? I'm not prepared for that
0:14.2	mentally, but I am here with some comfort food to help me deal with you know the
0:19.6	passage of time. It's Ben Wittis, editor-in-chief of Law Fair, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
0:26.0	He's on the Law Fair podcast sometimes too.
0:28.0	He also writes Dogshirt Daily on Substack.
0:30.6	It's a big show after Ben.
0:32.1	Make sure to stick around, we have Eric Cordellesa, who wrote the time cover story about his interview with Donald Trump. That's sure to be interesting. Ben Wittis, where are you coming at us from?
0:43.0	Coming at you from the Law Fair Content House in New York City, near the courthouse in an undisclosed
0:50.1	location.
0:51.1	Got it.
0:52.1	On Tiktong, the kids call that a hype house.
0:54.0	So you might want to change that to the lawfare hype house.
0:56.3	We sort of call it a the nerd hype house.
0:59.4	I'm going to be doing some makeup videos, you know, explaining the Trump trials while showing how to deal with one brown
1:06.2	eyebrow and one gray eyebrow. We're going to be doing glare off of receding hairline
1:12.4	forehead's issues.
1:14.3	It's going to be smoking.
1:16.5	I have subscribed now officially.
1:19.5	All right.
1:20.4	So the biggest news that we've heard from the trial
1:22.2	so far that I've heard on the law fair podcast was one of the gentleman doing security on the perimeter of the trial a bulwark fan. Correct. So I just wanted to say what's up bro?
1:34.0	And just, you know, he just recognized you as a YouTube viewer?
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