Amanda Carpenter

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949 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 11 Aug

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The Bulwark Daily · Amanda Carpenter, Sarah Longwell, & Sam Stein: Trump Gives His Family a Free Pass to Crime · 21 May 2026 podcast

And it was so controversial, it was struck out of the bill.

But now, hey, all cool and legal.

So if you try to follow a through line, there is no connection between the remedies that he's asking for and the original harm.

So what is this really about?

What I think this deal is really about is protecting his position in power, not only through the midterms and the 2028 election, whatever he decides to do, but post-presidency as well.

Why else would you be asking for permanent legal immunity, not only for all the crimes you committed in the White House that the Supreme Court so thoughtfully gave him, but for any kind of tax liability for all your businesses and family?

To me, that's what this is really about.

Yeah, this idea of Trump as an autocratic entrepreneur and his plans post-presidency, like, listen, it's a question.

Will he stay or will he go?

His plans for the ballroom essentially turning, it's really a bunker.

Like, can we be real?

I don't know if you've seen the videos of him lately where he's standing outside promising how great it's going to be and the gift that he's going to give future presidents.

And oh, by the way, we're going to have a drone empire on top of the White House.

So we're not having a ballroom.

We're having a drone empire that is essentially going to what?

Turn the White House into some kind of military base where he's going to have drones flying around to protect him.

I mean, maybe there's a chance he's really freaked out about the wars he's starting and retribution that might be coming for him.

There have been, you know, assassination attempts on him several times, not only from domestic actors, but foreign.

So who knows what's actually going through his head?

But regardless of what he's thinking, what he is doing is insulating himself in so many ways inside the White House as a bunker that, again—

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