Bill Kristol: Trump Loves Fraud

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Gullible Republicans have really been proving what they're made of recently, including Susan Collins, who claims Trump wants to root out corruption, even though his whole life has been a fraud—the water, the university, and "The Apprentice," just for starters. Meanwhile, the presidents of Mexico and Colombia are showing that they're not going to bend over in service of Trump's vanity. Plus, JD's Johnny-come-lately Catholicism, and the tech titans's clash with DEI may be helping the US lose the lead in AI.

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
show notes:
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's statement on Twitter (hit translate post)
Timothée Chalamet on SNL

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the board podcast.
0:09.9	I'm your host Tim Miller.
0:11.3	It's Monday, January 27th.
0:12.9	Trump's been president again for about a week now.
0:15.2	Feels longer.
0:16.6	And I'm here today with Bill Crystal.
0:19.9	How you doing, Bill?
0:20.9	It does feel longer than a week.
0:22.8	It does.
0:23.7	I don't know if it feels like a month, six months, or a year, but it's, we're not even talking
0:29.2	like a little longer than a week, right?
0:31.0	Yeah.
0:31.5	We are gathering today, as you note in the morning newsletter on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
0:37.2	So I think it's probably worth
0:38.1	starting there shadow president elan musk zoomed in to a conference of the afd which is the german far right
0:48.3	party at that gathering he said he thinks that there's too much focused on past guilt, and we need to move beyond
0:55.0	that. You had a little meditation on this for Holocaust Remembrance Day today. I'd like for you
1:00.1	to share your thoughts on that. Well, it's, Musk, of course, had done the salute, which wasn't
1:05.2	really, of course, a fascist, a Nazi salute. On Monday, he joked about it during the week. I actually
1:10.2	wrote about that in Friday's morning shots. Then Saturday, he joked about it during the week. I actually wrote about that in Friday's warning shots.
1:12.4	Then Saturday, he decided to video into an AFD rally in Germany.
1:17.0	And, okay, he's endorsed them.
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