The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1000: David French: Trump Admits He's Violating the Constitution
14 Mar 2025
Trump & company aren't even attempting to create a pretext for why they're punishing the free speech of political opponents. They are basically confessing in writing to violating the First Amendment. At the same time, the administration claims it's throwing a Hamas supporter out of the country in the name of fighting antisemitism—while giving jobs to the 'right kind' of antisemites. Plus, MAGA turns on Amy Coney Barrett, Trump sees Canada as 'our Ukraine,' and we're looking at a party that is governing like it will never give up power. David French joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod. show notes David's column on Trump's attack on the First Amendment (gifted) Post that David referenced that was retweeted by Jessica Riedl Tim's playlist
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Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Before we get to our guest, I got to get something off my chest about Chuck Schumer. I bet you all do, too. Here's the state of play as we tape this on Friday morning. The Senate will vote this afternoon to overcome a filibuster of the House's continuing resolution, which funds the federal government through September 30th.
Schumer announced yesterday that he would support not the bill, but that there's an assumption that Schumer saying that he will support cloture on this bill will unlock the requisite number of Democrats, seven Democrats or eight Democrats, depending on Rand Paul that are needed. to bring this to the floor, and then presumably Republicans would pass it without any Democratic votes.
Here's the most generous spin on this before I start ranting.
The most generous spin I've heard is that getting into a shutdown makes Trump's, Musk's job of dismantling the government easier, firing people easier, that it wouldn't achieve anything on a policy standpoint, that there was no real plan to end it, and that it would both hurt the government workers and potentially hurt the Democrats' political standing.
I want to say, even if you grant that, right? Even if you grant that the end of this process was going to be some kind of fold because there was no way to actually stop Musk's reign of terror with only 47 senators. Even if you acknowledge that, that there wasn't a real end game for Schumer to stop the horribleness that we are all experiencing, right?
He still had a political imperative to do everything in his power to fight it in the meantime. There are a lot of things that Chuck Schumer could have done besides just folding. He could have held an actual filibuster today on the Senate floor on behalf of veterans' jobs.
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