Stormy Days Are Here For Him
The Next Level
The Bulwark
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump's indictment seems inevitable, but how long it will take before an arrest actually happens is anyone's guess. Regardless, Ron DeSantis has taken his first slight swing at his would-be rival, but he's just using Marco Rubio's failed 2016 playbook.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to the next level I'm J. V. L. |
| 0:08.7 | here with my best friends Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the Bulwark. |
| 0:13.5 | We are taping this on Wednesday at noon, |
| 0:16.2 | and we have just gotten word that there will be no indictment |
| 0:19.1 | of former President Donald J. Trump, as of today, This probably gets punched to next week. Tim, give me your quick |
| 0:26.1 | react. Well, once again, Donald Trump has, you know, played the media and played everybody. |
| 0:31.6 | The only reason we all thought it was coming Tuesday right |
| 0:33.6 | was because Donald Trump put it on his fake Twitter that he said he was going |
| 0:36.8 | to get arrested on Tuesday and there were some whispers going around you know but |
| 0:40.0 | there have been whispers about imminent indictments of Donald Trump since like 2017, right? |
| 0:46.0 | So the only reason we all really thought it was Tuesday is because Trump said, |
| 0:49.4 | and we assumed maybe there was some conversation between the Secret Service. |
| 0:52.3 | It is a little bit unprecedented, right? |
| 0:54.2 | The notion that a former president |
| 0:56.2 | with Secret Service would have to, you know, |
| 0:58.4 | get mug shot it or fingerprinted or purp walked |
| 1:00.8 | or however they would go about this indictment. |
| 1:02.6 | So, you know, not surprising, Trump has manipulated the media. |
| 1:05.7 | It's working for him on the political side of things, which we'll get to. |
| 1:08.5 | But I don't know, for me personally, my anticipation is overflowing. I mean, I have a little bit of blue balls on this. Like I'm ready. I want the mug shot. Okay? It's not the perfect crime to get on but you know he's done a lot of crimes and and let's just get one to kind of get one to get warmed up. |
| 1:22.6 | And let's just get one to kind of get warmed up. |
| 1:25.4 | Would the Secret Service go into jail with him to protect him from the different Oz factions? |
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