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George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

Trump is Not a KING

George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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George Conway and Sarah Longwell talk Donald Trump’s quoting of Napoleon and calling himself a king, the resignations in SDNY over Mayor Eric Adams corruption case, Elon Musk’s control with DOGE, and Trump’s tanking approval ratings.

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0:00.0

If he is exercising that power that Trump says he's doing, and says that I's doing,

0:05.0

and then what? Elon says he's doing, then he is basically the chief operating officer of the United States,

0:11.0

and he basically can over-counter man.

0:14.0

He reports directly to the president, and not only that, he can tell cabinet agencies what to do.

0:26.3

That's somebody who has to be confirmed by the Senate to an office created by the Congress of the United States, period.

0:32.3

Hello, everyone, and welcome to George Conway, explains it all, to Sarah.

0:36.7

I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark.

0:39.9

And because I'm not a lawyer, I've asked my good friend, George Conway, to explain all the illegal news to me.

0:46.1

Because it is all illegal.

0:48.4

Right, it's all illegal.

0:49.9

Virtually all of it.

0:50.7

I can't think of any of its elite.

0:53.1

Well, you know, here's the thing.

0:54.6

Part of the reason that I think we're dealing with so much illegal news, Donald Trump gave us

1:00.1

a tweet over the weekend that laid out his framework for how he thinks about the law. He went

1:07.8

to truth social and X and said, he who saves his country does not violate any law which is

1:15.8

a quotation typically attributed to napoleon so we're you and i are not violating any law i think

1:22.9

we're good because we are saving the country This is really, this is one of those things

1:27.9

we're like, the law, this is what's interesting, right? And maybe you could, you could probably

1:32.6

explain this better than I can. It's like a rush a moment. The law is a precise thing, right? Whereas

1:38.6

it is subjective the idea that one is saving one's country. We do believe that we are in the right

1:46.3

and that what we are doing is an attempt to beat back an attack on liberal democracy. But Trump

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