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David French

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1977 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

In a worst-case scenario, the type of investigations they could be doing could be โ€“ I just โ€“ You know, this is the first administration in my lifetime where you say it could be worse than my actual worst-case scenario.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

You know, in other words, when I was sitting here thinking about Trump's second term โ€“

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

I did not have in my mind launching an illegal war and then committing war crimes in the middle of an illegal war, blowing up shipwrecked survivors.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

Something that is so black and white basic in the rule of law that it's an actual example in the law of war manual of an order that members of the military should refuse.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

Like it's literally in black and white.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

I can tell you the page, 1,088, Tim, page 1,088.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

It's right there in black and white.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

So

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

or sending people off to be tortured with no due process in an El Salvador.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

I mean, the darkness of this administration is beyond anything I've ever seen.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

And so, you know, what they would do to target progressive nonprofits and just simply label them Antifa so that, you know, somebody on Fox or Newsmax or OAN says, look at Trump targeting Antifa terrorists.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

I just don't think there's, you can really put much of anything past him.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

Oh, and when you're talking about targeting quote-unquote extreme views, one thing we've already seen from the MAGAverse is targeting religious institutions that minister to

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

that minister to migrants who've crossed the border.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

In other words, fulfilling Christian commands to take care of refugees and strangers in your midst.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

And we've seen Paxton, attorney general and Senate candidate in Texas, target nonprofits, religious nonprofits founded by Catholics who minister to people who are in this country, which is one of the most basic and elementary Christian commands that exists.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

Now, I don't know, you know, when the Catholic bishops got together and they condemned Christians

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

Trump's immigration policies and his brutality in immigration, does that now label them as pro-immigration extremists?

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

Even though, as Pope Leo said, nations get to have borders, but you never get to treat people brutally and cruelly.

The Bulwark Podcast
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

But as you've seen, Tim, I know you've seen this, if you ever raise an objection to masked men grabbing people off the street based on racial profiling, including American citizens, et cetera, then people say, oh, you're for open borders.