To Elect A Predator
The Next Level
The Bulwark
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump is found guilty of sexually assaulting E Jean Carroll, but no one doubts he's still on a path to the top of the Republican ticket in 2024. The GOP is also sticking by Rep. George Santos after he was indicted by a grand jury on 13 criminal charges. They really know how to pick some good ones!
Plus, what do our hosts think of President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy's standoff over the debt limit? And Tucker Carlson announces his return to spewing propaganda on Twitter, while RFK Jr. does surprisingly well in Democratic polls.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to the next level I'm J. V. L. here with my best friends Sarah Longwell and Tim |
| 0:14.3 | Miller of the Bulwark. Guys, Donald Trump. But dumb, bumbum bum, bum, the New York, |
| 0:25.0 | Legal System, really working in our favor right now. |
| 0:31.4 | Law and order is here. Sam Waterston went and got his God. I mean not |
| 0:37.4 | really that's not what happened but there were consequences. Oh is that what |
| 0:41.2 | that was the law and order theme? Yes that was? The Law and Order theme? |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, that was the Law and Order theme. |
| 0:45.0 | Bum, Bum, no, was that not good? |
| 0:48.0 | Did I not do it well? |
| 0:49.0 | Well, I didn't pick it up, and it's a highly recognizable theme song. |
| 0:52.0 | But it's fine, no no matter I love the smell of |
| 0:54.3 | accountability in the morning Donald Trump has suffered some consequences for the |
| 0:57.8 | first time since he got gonorrhea as a college student and he a jury took three hours that seems to be quite quick by the way by the |
| 1:08.7 | standards by which juries operate but the jury was socialist. They had like a charging document with very complicated details about how to think of different aspects |
| 1:18.7 | of the case. |
| 1:19.7 | And they came back and they found $5 dollars worth of damages for both sexual |
| 1:25.2 | batteries, sexual assault and defamation against the former president of |
| 1:30.0 | these United States. I mean let's just start with how this made you feel Tim. |
| 1:36.0 | It made you feel all warm and fuzzy and just to get little George Santos Lagnap, thank you to New Orleans listeners who corrected me. Like JVL, I'm just trying to custom myself to my new culture. I apparently pronounced it with a little too Frenchy, a not enough southern last week. A little Lagnat from George Santos. |
| 1:53.3 | It made me feel really great. |
| 1:54.4 | There's some mixed feelings on the inside, |
| 1:55.9 | which I want to get to next, but I just want to focus first on the positive. |
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