Closing Argument: He's Insane!
The Next Level
The Bulwark
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Plus the media’s insufficient job holding Trump and his surrogates, like Gov. Glenn Youngkin, accountable, and insights into Tim’s interview with tech bro Jason Calacanis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone I'm J. V. L. here with my best friends Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the Bulwork. |
| 0:09.0 | We are bearing down on three weeks to go in this election and everything's going great. |
| 0:14.2 | Yesterday Donald Trump held a town hall with a woman who might or may not have still |
| 0:20.5 | been Christine oh I'm hard to say and you know at the very ends was just like let's stop |
| 0:28.0 | asking questions let's just hit the playlist and then sort of stood there and swayed. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm very confused Sarah because I need to ask you. |
| 0:36.8 | I've been told for 18 months leading up to July 21. |
| 0:41.8 | Voters are super concerned about... leading up to July 21. |
| 0:46.0 | Voters are super concerned about Joe Biden's age and that's the only reason that they're supporting Donald Trump |
| 0:49.0 | because they look at Joe Biden and they think he's not all there and he can't do the job. |
| 0:53.0 | It's just about the base question of can he do the job. |
| 0:57.0 | Now the Democrats have non-made it like, you know, 60-year-old, |
| 1:00.0 | youthful, energetic vice president who supremely qualified. |
| 1:04.7 | Donald Trump. |
| 1:05.7 | Before Sarah talks, I know Sarah talks, can we just criticize Trump without the |
| 1:09.7 | fucking context of Joe. |
| 1:10.9 | I just, we don't need to talk about Joe Biden. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm going to defend the precious. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm going to defend the precious. |
| 1:16.4 | We can just judge Donald Trump on the merits of Donald Trump. |
| 1:20.3 | It's bad enough. |
| 1:21.7 | Tom Nichols did this to me today too, where I've got to like, you know, like do go, we're not going back. |
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