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Will Sommer

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The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

And now she has Cash, who's sort of embroiled in, I don't know, several scandals at once.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

So she's getting these, I think, what would be interesting guests, but they're sort of using her to launder to have a nice sit-down about when are they going to get engaged.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

Right.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

Yeah, so James Fishback is a guy I bought in on early as a character to watch.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

So this is a guy who – he was a hedge fund analyst, sort of seemingly very low level.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

And then he kind of fashioned himself as a – he's also very active in the anti-woke high school debate scene.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

I'm sorry.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

organization out there so he felt that high school debate had become too woke and so he launched his own non-profit of anti-woke high school debate and if you believe a lawsuit filed earlier this year he met his new girlfriend now when he was 26 and she was 16 and so that is that has been litigated you know she ultimately didn't get a restraining order 16 16 yes he denies kind of broadly that anything untoward took took place

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

I mean Epstein is jealous.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

But anyway.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

And so now he's running for governor of Florida and a lot of his critics have been making that Epstein comparison.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

I think there's a lot still unresolved there.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

Again, he denies it.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

Sure.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

He also had this whole thing where he kind of got in an imbroglio with this hedge fund he worked for.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

They said he was inflating his title.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

Then he got into a lot of sort of schemes around getting revenge at the hedge fund.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

And now he owes them, I believe once the legal fees are calculated, it's going to be like $2 million.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

So they repossessed his Tesla.

The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party

He's just getting a lot of scrapes.