He Is a Sucking Black Hole of Disaster (with Megan McArdle)
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Republicans know the 'Trump magic' isn't working, so when is the party going to get rid of him? Plus, ground zero in the midterms meme warfare, the politics of student loan relief, and special segment "What Are You Watching?" Megan McArdle and guest host Sonny Bunch join the panel.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Begg to Bgg to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring |
| 0:09.8 | civil conversation across the political spectrum from center left to |
| 0:12.8 | center right. I'm sunny Bunch culture editor at the bulwark and I'm sitting in |
| 0:16.4 | for Mona Charen this week. Joining me our regulars Bill Galston of the |
| 0:19.7 | Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center, and the with the Washington Post and you can normally find me hosting the |
| 0:32.7 | podcast the Bullwork goes to Hollywood and across the movie aisle. |
| 0:35.6 | First up let's try to unpack everything going on with the DOJ and Donald Trump. |
| 0:40.8 | If the Department of Justice's filing is to be believed, they not only had good reason to search Marilago, they also found what they were looking for. |
| 0:49.0 | And if Donald Trump's truth social account is to be believed, well, they not only had good reason to search |
| 0:54.6 | Marlago, they also seem to have found what they were looking for. |
| 0:57.9 | I have been of the opinion for a while now that the My Boxes theory of the case, as as opposed to the he selling secrets to the |
| 1:04.8 | Russians theory of the case is the best one basically Trump thought they were his |
| 1:09.1 | boxes and like a toddler who doesn't want to return his toy to the box just petulently refused to do so. |
| 1:14.6 | Linda, am I weirdly giving him too much credit by suggesting he's just being a |
| 1:18.4 | stubborn oof as is his want and should it really change the DOJ's calculus at all? |
| 1:24.0 | Well, exactly. I guess I think that latter point is the relevant one. |
| 1:28.0 | Look, I've been convinced from the beginning that Kim Jong-un's love letters were in 45's desk and |
| 1:35.2 | apparently they found three items in his two desks. I think he goes in there every |
| 1:39.9 | morning he reads the love letter he reminds himself that he was once the most |
| 1:44.3 | powerful man in the world and that makes him feel better. What the other stuff was |
| 1:49.6 | doing there I don't know I do think that everything that we have read suggests that Trump just was chaotic, |
| 1:58.7 | that he had no rhyme or reason for some of his actions. I mean, there were descriptions of him taking material |
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