S2 Ep129: Conway Explains: Trump Picked the Least Qualified Person He Could Find

George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

George Conway explains to Sarah another week of legal chaos, with prosecutor Lindsey Halligan’s bizarre texts, the illegal U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean, Trump’s $230 million claim against his own government, and the ACLU defending a man arrested for playing the Darth Vader theme.

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0:00.0	I would not have done that with the National Guards people because, uh, what's that?
0:07.7	It's the Imperial March, which is the Darth Vader.
0:14.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome to George Conway, explains it all to Sarah.
0:21.6	I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark.
0:24.2	And because I'm not a lawyer, I've asked my friend, George Conway, from the Society for the Rule of Law to explain the Illegal News to me every week.
0:32.6	And we are back.
0:33.2	Hey, George, how you doing?
0:34.2	Good.
0:34.6	How are you, Sarah?
0:36.2	You know, I'm great. You are, I've been,
0:39.7	I've been podcasting all day and so, and I'm ready for this one because I got a bunch of
0:44.1	things that I don't understand that I need you to explain to me. And I, I feel like we're
0:50.6	going to have to start having like a standing segment about the interim U.S.
0:54.6	attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsay Halligan, because she keeps doing the
0:59.8	weirdest stuff. She's the one who indicted James Comey and Letitia James. We are recording on
1:05.9	Friday and today Tish James pleaded not guilty in her arraignment in federal court.
1:11.3	The trial was scheduled for January 26th.
1:14.2	And if Halligan's prosecution of Letitia's James isn't bizarre enough, things with Halligan
1:19.1	got even weirder when Halligan started a signal conversation with Lawfare reporter Anna Bauer,
1:25.4	who I think we all follow closely.
1:27.9	Apparently, Halligan had issue.
1:30.0	She was mad at some of Bowers' tweets, which linked to New York Times coverage of the case.
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