S2 Ep169: George Conway Is Back—and Trump Gave Him PLENTY to Work With
The Illegal News with Sarah Longwell
The Bulwark
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Longwell welcomes George Conway back to The Illegal News to discuss Trump Media’s plan to sell Wall Street firms early access to Trump’s market-moving Truth Social posts. They also talk about DOJ subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters and their families, Trump’s Qatar jet, the newly activated Alien Terrorist Removal Court, and the Paramount–Warner merger.
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| 0:44.2 | George. Is it legal or is it illegal? It sounds illegal to me. |
| 0:53.4 | Hello everyone and welcome to the illegal news. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bullwork, and today got a hot one for you, guys. |
| 1:02.7 | I am welcoming my old friend, George Conway, nameer of this show, in fact, back from the trail, from the campaign trail. George, it's great to |
| 1:13.6 | see you, man. It's great to be back. I'm very nervous. Are you? Yeah, I haven't done this in a long time. |
| 1:21.7 | Wow. What? You know what? Just take it easy on me. I'll take it easy on you. Here's, here was my first question. |
| 1:28.2 | When you were on the campaign trail and big legal news was breaking, did you have to be like, |
| 1:34.3 | okay, I've got to focus on this, but were you desperate to talk about things? |
| 1:38.1 | Did it drive you crazy not to be able to constantly opine on national news? |
| 1:42.2 | It drove me crazy not being able to have time to follow it to the extent I normally would. |
| 1:50.5 | I mean, for example, I missed the last couple weeks of the Supreme Court's term, basically, |
| 1:57.4 | because I was just totally checked out. |
| 2:00.2 | And then I did a podcast over the weekend where I actually had to talk about some of the major decisions |
| 2:05.6 | like the Voting Rights Act case and the birth rights citizen. |
| 2:09.6 | And I hadn't read any of them, which I normally do. |
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