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The Bulwark Podcast

Sam Stein: A Bunch of Violent Keystone Cops

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

ICE and other armed federal agents are doing their best to incite violence in blue cities so they can help Trump realize his unfulfilled dream from 2020 to impose a military crackdown. At the same time, Trump can only point to what happened in Portland five years ago during Black Lives Matter protests to try to bolster his case. Meanwhile, Comey has a pretty good shot to get his case dismissed—thanks in part to a Truth Social post that was supposed to be a DM to Bondi directing her to go after his enemies. Plus, doubts around the longterm sustainability of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, the butch-up cosplay behind the blowing up of boats off of Venezuela, and the real power of conservative media influencers like Candace and Tucker. Sam Stein joins Tim Miller.

Sam Stein joins Tim Miller.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

0:14.8

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

0:16.1

Delighted to be here with my friend, the managing editor of this year, Bullwork,

0:20.3

a man who is just this very

0:21.8

week derided as repugnant by the, what do we call Stephen Miller? What's his job these days?

0:29.3

The most powerful aid in America. It's powerful, the most powerful aid in the White House.

0:34.0

Maybe somebody who is reflecting how he feels about himself on the inside and

0:37.6

lashing it out and projecting it onto others on the outside. And given that moment for you,

0:43.2

I felt like we should podcast together this week. I appreciate that. I didn't realize that

0:47.6

it could have been projection, but that makes a lot of sense. You should go into psychiatry.

0:52.0

Yeah. Well, he also called somebody vile. Who was it? They called vile?

0:55.0

He called somebody else vile, disgusting. I think Dan Goldman. Yeah. Yeah. Vile, repugnant, disgusting. We're going to get into my thoughts about Stephen Miller towards the end and some of the things AOC said about it. But first, we have a ton of news. I want to start with what's happening in Chicago. I did a little monologue on this yesterday.

1:11.9

We're going to go much deeper, I think,

1:13.7

off with on the ground folks. We have a ton of news. I want to start with what's happening in Chicago. I did a little monologue on this yesterday.

1:11.6

We're going to go much deeper, I think, with on the ground folks tomorrow.

1:15.6

So I kind of want to focus on the political.

1:17.6

But the video and the examples of overreach that we're saying in Chicago are pretty shocking.

1:25.6

I know overreach is a fucking understatement.

1:26.6

Like a Black Hawk helicopter, people repelling from it, jumping into a building, knocking down,

1:31.2

banging down doors, American citizens' doors, in addition to migrants' doors,

1:35.3

masked thugs, menacing people.

1:37.5

I posted a video yesterday.

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