S2 Ep121: Pam Bondi’s Overreach Blows Up in Her Face

George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

George Conway explains to JVL how Pam Bondi’s failed attempt to seize control of DC’s police exposed Trump’s push for total power — and why it’s a warning of what could come next. From the absurd “felony sandwich” case to Trump’s open threats on Truth Social, Conway lays out how the rule of law is being twisted to protect the powerful and punish the weak.

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0:00.0	If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city.
0:05.0	And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington, you know, there's no, how do you stop him?
0:14.0	Who's going to tell him to leave the White House?
0:20.0	Hello, everyone.
0:21.4	Welcome to George Conway explains it all to Sarah Longwell.
0:25.6	He's George Conway.
0:26.6	I am not Sarah Longwell.
0:28.6	I'm her best friend, JVL.
0:30.6	I'm practically as good as her.
0:32.6	George, we got to start by talking about a new American hero sandwich man.
0:41.1	Hero.
0:42.1	G. Y. R. O.
0:43.6	Yeah, well, maybe, maybe.
0:46.1	Or a hoagie.
0:46.9	Hogan.
0:47.4	He has been arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.
0:49.6	Sorry, a deli weapon.
0:51.9	Yeah, he's been in charge of a felony.
0:53.8	I don't know what exactly the fellow's called. So a fellow's been in charge of a felony. I don't know what exactly the felon
0:54.9	was called. Yeah. So a fellow's name is Sean Charles Dunn. By now, everybody has seen the
1:00.1	video and heard the story. He was a little bit in his cups and he's himself as a lawyer,
1:06.9	an employee, former now employee of the Department of Justice. And he was having some words with some agents of the state. And he threw his, I believe it was a subway, unclear to me if it was a turkey club or not. I think it had salami in it. I read, I read carefully some of the news stories, and I think there was salami in the sandwich.
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