Jonathan V. Last: We Got a Billionaire Problem
6/4/20261 hr 7 min
Most of the multibillionaires are not only hoarding their money and failing to contribute to the public good, they're also using their wealth-based power to manipulate the government, the markets, or our elections. Like Elon, for instance, who just manipulated the Nasdaq so all Americans with a 401(k) can help him become the first trillionaire by the end of the year. At some point, there is such a thing as too many billions for one person, and we need to start applying the pre-Reagan tax rate. Plus, 'vanilla' Dems are doing pretty well, maybe not so fast on Pratt 2028, and Trump will never forgive Vance for being right about the Iran war. And Lawfare's Katherine Pompilio discusses her exclusive reporting on the significant number of pardoned J6ers who went on to commit subsequent crimes.
Katherine Pompilio and JVL join Tim Miller.
show notes
- Katherine's reporting on the scores of pardoned J6ers committing new crimes
- JVL on how Marco beat out JD for the Trump's Favorite Adopted Son spot
- JVL's "Trump Madman Theory’ of . . . the Stock Market"
- Lauren on the 'vanilla' dems
- The Secret Podcast
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Tim Miller· Host0:30
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We got another double header for you today. In segment two, Catherine Pompilio, uh, has a bombshell lawfare story out today that reveals many, many, many, many more January 6th pardon recipients have committed subsequent crimes than previously known. [laughs] Shocker.
Jonathan V. Last· Panelist1:00
No kidding. Criminals do crimey.
Tim Miller· Host1:04
Yeah, the 6th are cr- [laughs] Yeah, that's interesting. But first- Story 11 [laughs] There he is. Now you know who's first. He's the author of the Triad newsletter, which you better have signed up for. He's a pinball wizard. He's a 2026 People's Champion for his work on that very newsletter. It's JVL. What's up, man?
Jonathan V. Last· Panelist1:19
Hey, babe. It is good to be here with you, my friend.
Tim Miller· Host1:22
Thank you for doing this, you know, doing a little extra podcast work this week.
Jonathan V. Last· Panelist1:28
You got it.
Tim Miller· Host1:28
You have a secret podcast tomorrow, every