Peter Wehner: The GOP Thinks Trump Is above the Law

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Trump supporters who slammed the left for Defund the Police now want to Defund the FBI because whatever the "Lock Her Up" guy was doing to justify a search warrant couldn't possibly be illegal. Peter Wehner joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the Bullwork Podcast.
0:10.1	It is Tuesday.
0:11.6	As I wrote in my newsletter this morning, I had planned to devote my entire newsletter
0:16.1	to our very stupid politics of Wisconsin edition, but after what happened last night, the
0:21.6	raid at Mar-a-Lago in the reaction to it, I called it audible and instead devoted morning
0:26.6	shots to our extremely stupid politics, the reaction to the raid at Mar-a-Lago has
0:33.9	truly been extraordinary.
0:35.9	We want to break this down in what it means for the future of our politics, who better
0:39.4	to do that, than our guest today, Peter Wainer, senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, contributed
0:45.6	to the New York Times and the Atlantic and author of the death of politics, how to heal our
0:50.2	Freed Republic after Trump.
0:52.7	So first of all, good morning, Peter.
0:54.6	Morning, Charlie, great to be with you.
0:56.0	Always a pleasure.
0:57.8	Even by the standards of the world we live in, the timeline we live in, what happened last
1:02.0	night was stunning.
1:03.1	It was a BFD.
1:04.6	I mean, on any objective level, it's historic.
1:09.1	It's never happened before.
1:11.2	It'll have political fallout, legal fallout.
1:15.0	Just give me your sense of how big a deal it is that the Department of Justice and the
1:20.1	FBI has raided the home of a former president of the United States.
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