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Susan Glasser

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

some of the filings in, in, in this case.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

And it really, it is remarkable because the allegation, as I understand it in, in total lay person's terms here is that they had two different versions of the indictment of Comey and that it's possible that the magistrate judge misinterpreted when Lindsay Halligan brought us the second version of the indictment.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

And it was presented by the grand jury foreperson that the,

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

It's possible the grand jury actually never saw the second indictment of Comey, which was entered under their name.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

And that would be truly a remarkable thing if that is what happened.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

So that's my understanding what's going on here.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

And it does speak to the possibility of an enormous screw up by an inexperienced person who never would have passed muster for this job under any president, Democrat or Republican.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

And that is a through line here.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

Well,

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

Abuse of power is the kind of thing that should rattle people.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

It has nothing to do with ideology.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

This kind of power being wielded by an unchecked executive is literally like the nightmare that the founding fathers envisioned from the very beginning for a reason.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

It's completely devoid of ideology, and what it speaks to is something that anybody can be targeted for.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

Yeah, I mean, I think that is really important through line, actually, from we're talking about Comey and the abuse of power.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

When you get to this question of immigrants and who's afraid in this society right now, who's being targeted most explicitly in the society, you know, it's the spreading of fear on some level that is the most important.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

kind of strikingly at odds with the U.S., right?

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

Seen as a safe haven, seen as the safe place in the world for generations of people.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

I'm, you know, certainly all of my family, I'm guessing, you know, most of your family, you know, they're all immigrants at some point.

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

And they came here in part because they thought it was safe, right?

The Bulwark Podcast
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy

It was a place to get away from, you know, the horrors of the old world, whatever they were.