Welcome to the Bull Work Podcast, I'm Charlie Sykes. Happy New Hampshire Primary Day for those of you who celebrate.

I don't want to have any spoilers here because, you know, New Hampshire is notorious for

upending predictions, for being unpredictable, but I think it's pretty clear that we are sometime, either today

or very shortly, to learn something that we've already known, which is that the party of

Ronald Reagan is dead, demise, departed, and no more.

This is Nicky Haley's last stand.

Of course, you know, you're up for another, you know,

48 hours of punditizing about the importance of all of this.

But I want to take a little bit of a step back today because there is an

absolute mind-bender of a story that I wanted to talk about and we are joined by the author of that piece Michael Cruz senior staff writer at

political and political magazine now this story Michael first of all welcome to

the podcast thanks Thanks, Charlie.

Good to be with you again.

This story with headline,

this to him is the grand finale.

Donald Trump's 50-year mission

to discredit the justice system.

So I mean, this is mainly about Trump but you also did a couple of

interviews with voters up in New Hampshire but this piece and I really hope that people set aside some time to read it because you start off with something that I think most people are familiar with what happened in room 300 of the New York County courthouse in Manhattan in November where Donald Trump strutted dominated took

over the proceedings the judge was left to say you know can't anyone control him

and nobody could control him.

But as you point out, I'm going to just read a little bit

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