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The Bulwark Podcast

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The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Trump hasn't re-defamed E. Jean Carroll, so it basically takes about $83 million to get him to shut up. Plus, the big risk in the Georgia case, MAGA will be rooting for San Francisco, and Charlie talks about getting off the hamster wheel. Ben Wittes is back with Charlie Sykes for The Trump Trials.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bull Work Podcast. Every Thursday we devote the podcast to the Trump trials and there are so many of them

0:16.6

but this week it feels like more like waiting for Godot. We're waiting on Judge and Gorin. Lee says we're recording this. We're waiting on the DC Circuit Court of Appeal. We're waiting on Fani

0:27.9

Willis to come up with her response. We're waiting on Judge Eileen Cannon to basically do anything. So we're kind of doing a lot of waiting Ben

0:37.4

How are you by the way? Happy Thursday.

0:39.7

Uh, happy Thursday to you, Charlie.

0:42.8

And yeah, we're in this state of suspended animation.

0:46.8

And it is aggravating.

0:49.4

I got a, I got an email from one of your colleagues yesterday which just had subject line

0:55.7

what's up with the DC circuit and I was like I don't know you know it's frustrating

1:02.1

we could pretend to know I mean we have a

1:04.0

podcast so we're supposed to pretend to know right here's my reckless speculation

1:08.3

about it you have two judges here who are from the liberal wing of the court.

1:14.1

You have one who is from the conservative wing of the court.

1:18.2

And so there's, I think, really two possibilities

1:21.6

of what the hold up here is.

1:23.4

One is trying to a very careful negotiation

1:28.6

to keep the court unanimous is one possibility

1:32.3

and the other possibility is that Judge Henderson,

1:36.5

Karen LaCraft Henderson, is writing either a lengthy dissent or a lengthy

1:41.8

concurrence that is taking her sometime.

1:45.0

And using a quill pen.

1:47.0

Yes, and doing it in a slow fashion.

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