Carol Leonnig and Will Sommer: The Loons and the Loyalists Running the DOJ
4/28/202651 min
Acting AG Todd Blanche, who watched Pam Bondi get fired, knows exactly what his assignment is: Go after every political enemy Trump wants targeted, and charge them—even without evidence of a crime. At the FBI, officials under Kash have pursued dubious or phony leads while career agents are seething over what the director has done to the place. Plus, the podcastistan wars may be doing real harm to the MAGA movement, influencers in the Trump echo chamber are looking pretty lame in comparison to key right-wing figures who are breaking ranks with him, and the latest on post-overdose looksmaxxer Clavicular.
Will Sommer and Carol Leonnig join Tim Miller.
show notes
- Carol's latest reporting on the case of assassination suspect, Cole Allen
- Carol's book about the Secret Service, "Zero Fail" and her latest, "Injustice"
- Will's new "False Flag" on Clavicular
- Will on a wild and unnecessary FBI raid
- TNL's live pod from Tuesday
- Tickets for our Bulwark Live shows in San Diego on 5/20 and in LA on 5/21: TheBulwark.com/Events
- Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat athttps://on.auraframes.com/BULWARK. Promo Code THEBULWARK
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsTim Miller· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We've got a double header for you today. In segment two, uh, we go into MAGA-stan with Will Sommer. He's got some fun newsletters I want to share with y'all. But first, delighted to welcome back a senior investigative reporter at MS now. She was previously at The Washington Post, a five-time Pulitzer Prize winner. That's five more than me. Her latest book is Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department. It's Carol Leonnig. How you doing, girl?
Carol Leonnig· Guest0:41
I'm good. It's really nice to see you.
Tim Miller· Host0:43
Good to see you as well. Man, a lot happening on your beat, the Justice Department beat. You've also written about the Secret Service a bunch, uh, in the past as well, and so I kind of want to start, uh, just by talking about what happened at the Correspondents' Dinner through the Secret Service lens. Uh, I see a lot of folks out there critiquing and catastrophizing what happened. Obviously, the Trump administration is talking about how this justifies the illegal ballroom they're trying to build. You tell me. I, I mean, I feel crazy kind of 'cause I look at the story and I'm like, things seem to work. I, I mean, we're in a crazy country where we have too many guns, and people bring guns into hotels now, which I would like to fix that part of the problem, but the, the guy didn't even get onto the floor that the president was on, uh, you know? And