Bill Kristol
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283 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 31 Mar
Bill Kristol’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Just the appeals caused some delay in muddying the waters, but the courts were – it was helpful that 60 different cases all got thrown out.
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But there are now many more Trump appointees on the court settled in.
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And it turns out that these guardrails aren't quite as strong as you might have hoped, depending on what the challenges are.
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When Trump literally tries to overturn an election after November 3rd, after Election Day, you have to be pretty far gone to start sustaining that kind of stuff in a court.
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But this kind of stuff, which he's done on this, which his lawyers have argued in this case and on the case in Florida, on the documents, you know, you can be a pro-Trump judge and find a lot more, I don't know what's the right word, kind of colorable excuses, you know, to find ways of letting Trump off the hook.
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And I think it's a good lesson that, you know, we all thought, I mean, many of us thought the courts will hold him accountable for January 6th.
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And then when the document stuff came out, I think you and I discussed this in
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real time on, you know, on your show.
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I mean, that seemed like a cut and black and white, cut and dried case.
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And here we are, September, almost September of 2024.
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And not only has he, there haven't even been trials, there haven't even been hearings that are publicly almost that have brought any of the evidence to light.
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So he has played the system effectively, I've got to say.
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Brilliant, really perceptive.
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No, I actually agree with it.
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Therefore, it was brilliant and correct.
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You know, what's funny, if you just step back a second, though, it was the Biden campaign that insisted on the muting of the mics, right?
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That was their... They thought it was... I don't know why they didn't want Trump to interrupt Biden, I take it.
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It ended up helping... I mean, Biden had bigger problems at the debate than this, but...
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It ended up helping Trump.
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And I remember saying at the time, I thought this was crazy.
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