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Tim Miller: They've Lost Their Minds!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller joins MSNBC’s The 11th Hour to discuss the Trump DOJ’s politically motivated investigations targeting Democratic officials. He explains how this isn’t a distraction tactic, it’s pure intimidation, driven by conspiracy, bad faith, and a desperate attempt to criminalize dissent.

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0:25.1

Rule. I miss Steph. She usually comments my outfits. And we were talking about,

0:32.7

what are the intentions behind this spate of attacks from the Trump DOJ on Democratic political

0:40.8

foes? We've seen the arrest of a congresswoman who's at the ICE protest in New Jersey,

0:48.3

the investigation into Andrew Cuomo now running for mayor of New York City. He's back. He can't get rid of the Cuomo.

0:56.3

A letter sent about a potential investigation into the mayor of Chicago, which I discussed

1:01.8

with David French today, about how he bragged about all the black folks he had hired,

1:09.4

the administration, I guess, saying that this

1:11.0

shows that he did race-based hiring in a way that's illegal. And the conversation, you know,

1:19.7

kind of centered on what, what's the motive for this, right? And, you know, I think there's one motive that gets thrown around there

1:29.8

a lot, which is like there's these distractions from trying to distract. And that one never really

1:34.9

lands for me. Like his universal strategy, right, is to flood the zone. And so at some level,

1:41.3

like there's, you're constantly living in a state of distraction. Uh, but I don't think that any of these level, like, there's, you're all constantly living in a state of distraction.

1:50.1

But I don't think that any of these cases are like fodder for cable.

1:58.1

I think that, and as I lay out, you know, in the, in the panel here, which you're about to watch,

2:00.5

I think it's about intimidation. And I also think that

2:04.3

the DOJ is just filled with people who've lost their goddamn mind. I mean, like the Harvey Dillans

2:12.6

and the P. Van Bandy and the people all the way down the line Obviously, Ed Martin, there are a lot of people there that are, um, not using strategic

2:24.1

judgment.

2:26.0

Um, the, Alina Haba, I mean, they are just, this is a ready aim fire effort over there.

2:31.7

Um, and so, you know, that's, um's how I lay it out. You can kind of see the

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