Bill Kristol: Has Trump Trapped Himself?

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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With the Epstein case, the conspirator-in-chief has finally found a hoax that MAGA isn't buying—and he's risking his credibility among his newer supporters in the manosphere by continuing to hawk it. Meanwhile, Trump may have figured out that Putin has not been nice to him. Plus, troops are still in Los Angeles, immigration laws meant for the border are being applied to gardeners and farmworkers in the country's interior, and there's a big serving of fascism that goes with all the clownishness.

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. I'm lightly tanned, unrested, unready, but I'm going to make it through on some oasis endorphins,
0:22.9	and it's Monday. So I'm here with Bill Crystal, who can carry me on a post-vacation hangover.
0:28.0	How you doing, Bill? I'm fine. How was your vacation, Tim? How was Oasis?
0:31.5	Oasis was so incredible. It was biblical, as they say, mad for it. It was really something.
0:39.0	They were on a 16-year hiatus.
0:41.3	We were in their hometown of Manchester.
0:43.8	Very few yanks there as soon as I opened our mouth.
0:46.9	Manchester, England, not Manchester, New Hampshire.
0:48.9	Some of us are very parochial, you know.
0:50.4	I spent a lot of time in Manchester, New Hampshire.
0:52.6	Let me tell you, I could tell you about the bar scene there.
0:55.5	It's pretty rough.
0:56.4	It was my first time in Manchester, England, which has kind of like a British Detroit feel
1:00.0	to it, one of those working industrial towns.
1:03.2	It's going to being revitalized.
1:05.1	And we're out in their big city park, Keaton Park, and 80,000 people.
1:10.5	All these Lymies knew every word to every song,
1:13.8	the B-sides, the everything, they came out. And it was, I had British strangers hugging me.
1:20.3	It was really, it was really quite the experience going to see the Oasis reunion in Manchester.
1:26.2	So that was good. Madrid was great.
1:28.5	Amsterdam.
1:29.3	Going from the Spanish to the British with the Dutch in between, I felt like I was
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