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Tim Miller Dismantles Scott Jennings' Excuses

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller takes on Scott Jennings’ pro-Trump turn, breaking down his on-air persona, his shifting claims about conservatism, and why the Bush-McCain-Romney tradition flatly rejects the path Jennings chose.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Timor from the Bullwark here.

0:01.8

My old colleague on the Jeb Bush campaign, Scott Jennings, uh, you might know him as the

0:05.8

heel on CNN.

0:28.6

Um, he went on to Emily Dyshinsky's, uh, after party podcast, which I've done. And boy, he had some not too nice words to say about me. He was going off on the never Trumpers. He's really in his feelings. He's really upset. you can kind of see how physically upset he's getting talking about never Trumpers and bashing us and demeaning us. And, you know, like he is shooting strays and Nicole attacking me. And he's trying to rationalize, justify why somebody who was, you know,

0:35.5

a rank and file part of the Bush GOP, who spoke out clearly and authoritatively on the night of January 6th about how horrible it was and by his children and how they're going to look back on the night.

0:46.8

And that guy now becomes Trump's like biggest cable TV shill.

0:51.7

Like how did that happen?

0:52.8

People want to know that.

0:53.6

And so he's on his book tour.

0:54.8

And in order to defend his position, he comes after the never-trumper's. Might be a little bit of projection there. I want to play a couple of the clips and just talk about his arguments because I think it seems like he thinks are really smart. He says so, basically. We can just respond to those together and see what we think. I'm not going to be sucked under by these silly people and their silly arguments.

1:12.6

I'm fighting a to be sucked under by these silly people and their silly arguments.

1:12.5

I'm fighting a larger battle here.

1:15.2

And a larger battle is which of these people actually loves America, which of these people

1:20.0

is actually going to stand up for the West?

1:21.6

And if Donald Trump does what I want him to do 95% of the time and he loves America and

1:27.4

he stands up for America and Kamala Harris does what I want her to do 95% of the time. And he loves America and he stands up for America. And Kamala Harris does what I want her to do zero percent of the time. And we're going to spend our 250th anniversary apologizing to the rest of the world for America. This is an easy vote for me every day of the week. And so I was more than happy to vote for him for a third time. I was more than happy to make the case for him. I was more than happy to knock down these stupid arguments.

1:44.5

And to this day, I So I was more than happy to vote for him for a third time. I was more than happy to make the case for him.

1:46.7

I was more than happy to knock down these stupid arguments.

1:53.4

And to this day, I still do not understand people who claim to be Republicans running around,

1:58.5

having voted for Democrats in each of the last three elections, having advocated for Democrats to win the Senate, having advocated for Democrats to win the House, having advocated for pro-abortion policies, having advocated for Democrats to win the Senate, having advocated for Democrats to win

2:01.4

the House, having advocated for pro-abortion policies, having advocated for every liberal social

2:06.9

crusade, and then have to look me in the eye and say, you know, you're hurting conservatism by

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