Trump Stumbles in Bible Reading + Possible IRS Settlement NEWS! | MAGA Mondays LIVE
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Sam Stein and Will Sommer went live to cover Trump withdrawing his $10B lawsuit against the IRS, the $1.7B slush fund for MAGA allies, Trump’s bizarre Bible reading, Laura Loomer’s fight with Thomas Massie that includes accusations of swinging and cocaine, and groyper drama involving a witch that you need to hear to believe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's me, Sam Stein, here my man, my partner in crime, Will Summer for another edition of MAGA Mondays. |
| 0:08.2 | I know you're all wondering, it's top of mind for many people in the comment section. |
| 0:13.2 | Will Will's internet peter out and fuck up in this broadcast? |
| 0:18.5 | And Will explain to me that it's possible. No just go dark it's not no i look i mean |
| 0:24.3 | there were some of the issues people said you know in the future we want to hear the host we want to be |
| 0:28.0 | able to see him at times during the live broadcast so i i've done a lot i've i've even considered |
| 0:33.3 | cutting down the trees outside my window they're giving me kind of a green tint in the past we're working on |
| 0:37.1 | it um but but there's been a total studio overhaul yeah well we like to you know the thing is |
| 0:41.9 | I think you kind of glitching out and having massive technical issues during the broadcast adds to the |
| 0:47.3 | lure of what we're doing here like it's not when I'm trying to be fancy not trying to be cable news |
| 0:53.1 | if I have to go solo and you know tight wire act I'm trying to be fancy, not trying to be cable news. If I have to go solo and, you know, tight wire act, I'm going to do it. And that's just that. And, you know, your internet, if it's like raining outside, it might fritz out. And that's just how we roll. And people are on for the ride, I think. Well, you know, I'm broadcasting from an undisclosed location from a bunker, |
| 1:11.6 | you know, and you just can't get the best internet in the bunker these days. |
| 1:14.8 | In all that seriousness, we, I worry we might go for like an hour today. |
| 1:18.4 | So if people are watching, buckle up, we have so much to talk about. |
| 1:22.0 | We're going to start with the IRS settlement. |
| 1:25.1 | There's some breaking news around that, but we're going to go from there |
| 1:28.8 | to a truly remarkable Bible reading that Trump gave yesterday, which was actually a recorded |
| 1:34.8 | Bible reading from a past Bible reading he did where, let's just say the man's not totally up |
| 1:40.2 | on his King James Bible, it appears. It's got to be nice and tidy in the teleprompter for him to get it right. Maybe some cuts on the video. We're going to be talking about Cash Patel, snorkeling with the corpses of the people who were bombed in Pearl Harbor. And we're going to be talking about, of course, clavicular and whether he was mugged by his judge in one of his trials when he shot an alligator. |
| 2:06.5 | When we're talking about Tom Massey, maybe doing a little blow and having a little fun, whatever. |
| 2:07.3 | Who cares? |
| 2:09.6 | Some dirty tricks being played in the election. |
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