Bill Kristol: Kleptocrats and Plutocrats

<div>Trump is trying to chuck the post-WWII order and firmly pivot American foreign policy away from Europe and toward Putin—the poor guy who got dragged into totally-not-a-hoax Russia Russia Russia. And Lil' Marco and Lindsey rushed to defend Trump and JD against Zelensky, who dared to question in the Oval Office whether Putin could be trusted in any ceasefire deal. At the same time, DOGE is putting the lives of malnourished children and pregnant women at risk in the name of cost-cutting while Trump is planning to use taxpayer money to prop up crypto, so he and his cronies can personally profit off it even more.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Bill Kristol </strong>joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.<br /><br /><em>show notes<br /></em><br /></div><ul>

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<a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bulwark-on-sunday-will-things-ever">Sam joins Bill for the most recent "Bulwark on Sunday"<br /></a><br /></li>

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<a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-weekend-for-putin">More on the USAID memo laying out Rubio's failure to provide life-saving foreign aid<br /></a><br /></li>

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