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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

The History of 'Lawfare' Against Donald Trump

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Hillsdale College

Education

4.8650 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guests: Alex Marlow & Eric Hutchinson

Host Scot Bertram talks with Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, about the weaponization of America’s legal system against Donald Trump and Marlow’s new book Breaking the Law. And Eric Hutchinson, associate professor of classics and chairman of the Collegiate Scholars Program at Hillsdale College, gives an introduction to the Roman poet Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid.

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0:00.0

From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

0:25.6

And I think it's one of those things where we can win this thing above board, and I don't want us defying the laws because I want us to be the stewards of law and order in America and of the Constitution.

0:36.6

And so I don't want to do anything that could

0:38.8

ruin our reputation, especially yet. I don't think that this is an unwinnable battle if we

0:45.2

just, if we play by the rules ourselves. This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the

0:50.4

Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

0:56.2

That was Alex Marlowe, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News to Time, New York Times bestselling author

1:02.3

and author of the brand new book, Breaking the Law, exposing the weaponization of America's legal system

1:09.1

against Donald Trump.

1:11.3

You could also find him hosting the Alex Marlowe show.

1:14.8

Alex, thanks so much for joining us.

1:17.5

Scott, it's great to be on with you.

1:18.9

I enjoy your show, and we're huge appreciators of Hillsdale, both in my household and at Breitbart News.

1:24.1

We appreciate that very much.

1:25.9

The new book is a look and overview at the numerous

1:30.8

legal efforts. The left has tossed toward Donald Trump, and we'll get to those at a second.

1:36.7

You say in the beginning, the preface actually, the left's political strategy is to use the legal

1:43.5

system to target their opponents.

1:46.0

Is this not just an extension of the left strategy for perhaps decades previously,

1:51.5

meaning the legislating from the bench, instilling, defending unpopular and unwanted policies

1:57.2

through the judiciary branch, and this is an extension of that. Yeah, that's exactly right.

2:02.8

And I have the first chapter and the introduction are histories of judicial activism and how

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