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Tim Miller
Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the Bulwark here. We got some breaking news. More bait. Let's be honest, this is bait from Donald Trump. But sometimes, you know, bait needs to be condemned anyway, and I'm the man to do it. So here it is. The latest is about Hunter Biden. He put out a bleat that Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for too long. Well, yeah, I mean, his dad's been president and vice president and Senate for a long time. He said there as many as 18 people in his detail, which is ridiculous. He's vacationing in South Africa. Then he's. He's been going on this reverse racism rant about South Africa. I guess Elon Musk got in his ear, but he's been really focused. Weirdly, we remember we kicked out the South African diplomat recently. So he's on the South African kick. Anyway, Hunter Biden's in South Africa at the end. He goes on to say, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, his sister Ashley Biden, who has 13 agents, will be taken off the list. No Secret Service protection. Okay, so let's just cut to the chase here. Cutting off Secret Service protection for the Biden kids is petty, it's stupid, it's dangerous, it's totally unnecessary. And frankly, I think over the long term, it's going to be something that the Trump family really comes to regret. Because you don't think Biden wanted to cut off the Secret Service protection from the Trumps or didn't think about it. After Trump inspired an insurrection at the Capitol, was a FELON Convicted of 34 felony counts. I mean, there were plenty of arguments or people that were saying that Trump and his kids don't deserve Secret Service. That notion didn't even get considered in the Biden White House. It wasn't even on the table. This idea that there'd just be this petty effort to punish the Trump family and to put themselves in danger. And you think this just goes to show that Trump is such a narcissistic prick? It's just like you would think that a fucking near death experience, you'd think that a bullet grazing your ear would be the type of thing that could change a man. Remember how during the campaign they kind of went through a phase where they pretended like he was changed by this. This guy knows how important Secret Service is. He knows the dangers and the threats out there. He experienced it. Trump did. And for him to then just put Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden at risk like this to put a target on their back. And to do so just so petulantly as a troll, it's pathetic. I mean, it is just not to go all George Conway on you, but it is the moves of just a malignant narcissist who does not care about a single person but himself and cannot be made to have even the slightest amount of empathy. Even after a head move saved his life, even after a near death experience, even after seeing God, he still could not be made to have empathy for other people. This is just, this person is sick. And I'm telling you, the next Democratic president is going to be way more petty than Joe Biden, if there ever is one. And I think that probably Donald Trump and his family, probably Donald Trump's probably cost his family Secret Service protection forever. And I don't know, you know, again, this is not an area of my expertise. Do we overprotect people? Do we have too much Secret Service protection on, you know, former president's kids and all this sort of stuff. Should there be reviews of all this? Should we be managing resources better? Maybe, I don't know, this is just like all the Doge stuff. Maybe, maybe that stuff's all worth reviewing. But like, that's not what this is. This is a troll. This is something, some chum to feed the base. This is something to put in the water, to distract from the fact that the economy is teetering on the brink right now. That's what all this is. This is not a serious review. This is not like, oh, 18 is too many, he should have 14. That's not what this is. And then to throw Ashley Biden in there, clearly that's just something to get at Joe Biden, to try to upset Joe Biden. It's just, it's the move of a total prick. And this is not the kind of thing that will probably have political salience, but that doesn't mean it should be ignored, because it's not right. And let me just say, when it comes to Hunter Biden, I don't know if there's anybody out there on kind of the pro democracy side that is more disgusted with Hunter Biden than I am. I'm just gonna say that, like, I don't. The fact that he's, he has a child, he's not parenting this, his painting is a total grift. The way he tried to keep guilt trip his dad to keep him in the race, the fact that he had was totally inappropriate. The types of meetings he was taking in the White House, it's totally inappropriate. The amount of Calls he was trying to get his father to take. He created problems for Joe Biden. He's partly responsible for Trump's reelection, frankly. You know, had Hunter Biden just shut up and just, like, gotten a normal job working as a lawyer for some somewhere rather than trying to trade on the family name, you know, I don't know, that probably would have helped Biden, on balance, would have helped Kamala Harris, but. But unfortunately, these guys had to carry this guy's baggage for four years. And. And he has his problems. I get it, I get it. He's overcome his problems, and I applaud him for overcoming his problems, but that doesn't change the decisions that he's made since becoming sober. So I don't have any particular sympathy for him, but the threats against him are obviously real, and he obviously deserves protection. And to single him out, or to single him out and his sister out, you know, when they're. And. And not to do that for other children of the presidents is sickening. It's wrong. And imagine what, what if someone actually tries to do something about this? I don't even want to say the words, I don't even want to put it out into society, but this is, again, this is putting a target on his back. And Ashley, what the fuck did Ashley Biden do? Nothing. These are bad people. We've seen it on. I've been discussing on the immigration front, and now we're seeing it here. And, you know, there have been others, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, but to target the kids like this, I know they're grown children, but to target them, especially after everything Trump went through, this just shows somebody that is black to the core. And I gotta tell you, God willing, nothing bad happens. God willing, nothing bad happens. So that's the breaking news here. We'll keep monitoring what's happened. Shout out to my boys at Dirty coast who are dressing me today, and make sure to subscribe to the feed. We'll be back here soon.