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Tim Miller: Thune May Be the Weakest Senate Leader EVER

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The Bulwark

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller joins MSNBC’s The Weeknight to take on Donald Trump’s desperate Epstein cover-up, the GOP’s ritual humiliation in defending him, and a Senate leadership that’s never been weaker from Trump’s absurd signature denial to John Thune’s vanishing act.

Watch MSNBC's The Weeknight – https://www.msnbc.com/weeknight

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0:00.0

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0:38.6

lies and the fucking signature gate and all that stupid shit. So there's a bunch on that coming up next.

0:45.0

So stick around for that. Subscribe to the feed. I took us on a little aside path because they

0:49.9

played a clip of John Thune talking about it for me.

0:57.6

And I was looking at the pick.

1:03.9

And the thing that just struck me was just how fucking limp these Republican senators are. How pathetic this Republican Senate leadership has got to be the most limp, weak, non-entity in the history of the United States Senate.

1:14.5

Maybe not in the history.

1:15.5

I don't know.

1:16.6

I couldn't do a deep dive with you, if I'm being honest, on the 1880s Senate leadership.

1:21.3

But at least in my lifetime, I mean, we have never mentioned McConnell, Harry Reid.

1:29.3

I mean, like, we've had just these real power brokers, the power broker himself, LBJ, like in this job. And John Thune is just,

1:39.6

I mean, he's like nothing. He's a little huffel puff. And he's just, he's a huskufflepuff and he's just he's a husk of himself he's just like a

1:46.6

fake tanned scarecrow and you might as well not even exist and he's got behind him like john barasso

1:55.3

who is in zero from wyoming he'll do anything trump tells him to every once in a whole like

2:00.7

dip out.

2:01.6

Which was it?

2:02.0

There's a hearing.

2:02.6

Oh,

2:02.8

is the RFK hearing.

2:04.5

He has some concerns.

2:05.7

Oh,

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