Bill Kristol: A Kleptocratic, Autocratic Cabal

Not only are the opportunities for personal financial gain for Trump and his White House cronies driving the administration’s foreign policy decisions, his tariffs look more and more about grift. Trump also inexplicably granted clemency to a private equity exec who ripped off ordinary Americans in a Ponzi scheme, while he plans a pardon for a former Honduran president who trafficked cocaine to America—even as he orders the bombings of suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, on the immigration front, Border Patrol is moving into NOLA, and the administration is exploiting the heinous and tragic DC Guard shooting to try to rid the country of black and brown immigrants.

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

show notes

• Bill's 'Bulwark on Sunday' on Trump's anti-immigrant agenda
• Tim's 'Bulwark Take' on Scott Jennings
• WSJ's piece, "Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine"
• NYT on David Sacks
• Andy McCarthy on the killing of two survivors of a missile strike in the Caribbean
• Makeup-less Trump at Mar-a-Lago
• New Bulwark merch!
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