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The Bulwark Podcast

Charlie Warzel: Alex Jones' Footprint of Misery

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

From Trump to Tucker, figures on the far-right are cribbing from the Alex Jones' playbook — using outrageous antics to spread their message and creating their own information networks to inoculate themselves from any consequences. Charlie Warzel joins Charlie Sykes today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happy Tuesday and welcome to the Bullwork podcast.

0:11.0

I'm Charlie Sykes on Tuesdays since I take Mondays off.

0:14.2

A little bit of catch up to do and I was going over my notes about all the things I needed

0:19.3

to catch up with and I just kind of threw up my hands because the last time we did a podcast

0:24.2

on Friday morning, we hadn't yet seen the search warrant from Mar-a-Lago.

0:29.2

Okay, it doesn't seem like a million years ago.

0:31.9

It was Friday afternoon that we found out that the former president of the United States

0:38.9

that his home was rated as part of an investigation to violations of the Espionage Act.

0:47.0

And I mean, yes, that is an extraordinary story, but it's merely one of the many extraordinary

0:54.2

stories that we're having to confront today.

1:00.3

I mean, Rudy Giuliani found out yesterday is the target of that Georgia grand jury probe

1:02.0

of attempts to overturn the election.

1:04.3

Lindsey Graham went to federal court in order to block a subpoenaed def testifying

1:08.6

under oath about his role in that same criminal investigation.

1:11.8

Meanwhile, we're learning that Trump's team copied sensitive voting data from election

1:16.8

systems and Georgia's part of this secretive effort to access voting equipment.

1:22.8

Another White House lawyer subpoenaed by the federal grand jury investigating January

1:26.6

6, which is a completely different criminal investigation.

1:29.6

And in a completely different criminal investigation, it looks like the former Trump organization's

1:34.9

CFO, Alan Weiselberg is about to plead guilty to criminal charges.

1:40.4

Last week, Donald Trump pled the fifth amendment more than 440 times.

1:48.2

Yet, a lot of folks in Trump world count all of this as a win for the president.

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