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Trump Nuked the GOP’s Texas Plan for No Reason at All (w/ Sam Stein) | The Bulwark Podcast

2025-12-04 News & Politics
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Analyzing Presidential Pardons, Border Enforcement Fallout, and Cultural Extremism

Understand the immediate economic damage caused by aggressive immigration enforcement in New Orleans and evaluate why President Trump issues politically confusing pardons while celebrities like Phil Mickelson advocate for severe, repressive global punishments.

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  • Assess the economic ripple effects caused by the New Orleans immigration enforcement sweep, which has caused workers to stop showing up for jobs.
  • Deconstruct President Trump's politically perplexing pardons of both Democrats and executives indicted by his own DOJ.
  • Analyze Phil Mickelson's disturbing public call for draconian immigration punishments mirroring repressive regimes worldwide.

Tim Miller and Sam Stein discuss several high-stakes political actions this week. They connect policy enforcement, executive power abuse, and alarming cultural commentary to understand the current volatile political climate, providing context for why these actions matter politically and economically.

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Trump's use of his pardon power is downright crazy, and that's not even counting his rescue of a convicted drug kingpin. He's also sabotaging his own redistricting plans in Texas by pardoning Rep. Henry Cuellar, and wasting taxpayer money absolving a sports executive who was indicted by his own Justice Department earlier this year. Meanwhile, down in NOLA, two men with a Napoleon complex are unleashing misery of the psychic and economic kind on the city through its ICE and Border Patrol operation. Plus, someone needs to scour the immigration history of Phil Mickelson's family, and why is Tucker so obsessed with the gays? Sam Stein joins Tim Miller. Show Notes:  Sam's 'Bulwark Take' on the DOJ attorney fired for not restoring Mel Gibson's gun rights: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fired-her-for-not-giving-mel?r=af2rj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Lauren on the Dems itching to go after AI: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-to-america-touch-grass-ai-big-tech?r=af2rj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false - Our listeners get 10% off at BetterHelp.com/THEBULWARK - Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/BULWARK. Promo Code BULWARK - Go to zbiotics.com/THEBULWARK to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use THEBULWARK at checkout Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@marieinmaine7 2025-12-04

I work with Somali refugee families. They have survived unspeakable horrors that most Americans can't imagine. There are small children who are survivors of rape and have had family members murdered. They are scared and brave and we are blessed to have them among us so they can build their lives as Americans. America's current leadership is capable of the same horrors that have happened in Somalia. There is no us and them. We are all in this together and we should be helping each other. There is no answer but shared humanity.

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@Kasaaz 2025-12-04

When Phil took that Saudi money for their tour, he told you who he was.

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@thoughtful415 2025-12-04

Trump is poisoning the blood of America

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@loveandkindness3591 2025-12-04

If Mickelson doesn't like the United States then he can leave.

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@spudspinnigan9677 2025-12-05

The common thread to the pardons is they are all scammers, frauds, grifters!

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@brightargyle8950 2025-12-04

Pardon power needs to be revoked from all president's. It's just a magnet for corruption.

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@randomman420 2025-12-05

I love the irony of all these contractors voting to have their own workers deported.

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@TheOldHippiebilly 2025-12-04

It's mass murder, plain & simple. The hypocrisy just makes it more grotesque.

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@thomaswilliams7673 2025-12-05

The double-tap strike suggests to me that everyone in the chain of command knew they were committing a war crime with the first strike, but were counting on gaslighting the public with their “narco-terrorism” cover story. They just apparently forgot that killing shipwreck survivors was the textbook definition of a war crime.

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@Coffeewineanger 2025-12-05

The whole pardoning the drug dealer and bombing the drug dealers is so blatantly in your face it's crazy!!

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