Sam Stein and Adam Hamilton: Trump’s Fabricated World Is Crashing

**Tim Miller** (0:12)
Hello, and welcome to The Bulwark Daily. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We got a double header for you today in Segment 2 We got the Democratic candidate for Senate in Kansas, Adam Hamilton. And we all have two wolves inside of us.
Adam was really tingling my good wolf today.
He's hitting all of the notes that my good wolf likes to hear. So stick around for that in Segment 2 But first, we got to feed the bad wolf. It's the managing editor of The Bulwark, Sam Stein. What's up?

**Sam Stein** (0:43)
What's up, man? I'm glad I'm the bad wolf for today.

**Tim Miller** (0:47)
Yeah, JVL isn't available, so we're going to have to stick with you. I was asking you which of the stories in the outline feed your bad wolf the most, and you offer an interesting choice. There's any bigger news out there in the world today? We'll get to all of it. No. But Corey Lewandowski, Stank Breath Corey Lewandowski, and I think newly divorced or soon to be Kristi Noem, because she wasn't willing to Bimbrowify herself enough for her husband. They're still together. This is the great American love story.
Corey and Kristi Noem spotted vacationing maybe or doing business deals, something in Minnesota.

**Sam Stein** (1:27)
Do we want to play the video of it first?

**Tim Miller** (1:30)
Sure.

**Sam Stein** (1:30)
Let's play the video of it.

**Tim Miller** (1:34)
Here they are for the audio listeners. They're at a restaurant. They're eating alfresca. Kristi's in a hat.
Corey is in the Joe Biden sunglasses. There's a car behind you. They're laughing. They're laughing. Corey spots the camera, looks away. Corey starts walking away. They walk away a couple of paces apart from each other, as if that's going to matter.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:58)
They have soft serve in there.

**Sam Stein** (2:00)
They have soft serve in there apparently.

**Tim Miller** (2:03)
They're spotted where? What is this?

**Sam Stein** (2:04)
They're biking.

**Tim Miller** (2:05)
Now they're biking.
That's cute. Yeah. Exercise.

**Sam Stein** (2:10)
I'm glad.

**Tim Miller** (2:10)
You told me you wanted to surprise me with your take on that, so I'm all ready.

**Sam Stein** (2:15)
I'm angry for a couple of reasons. The bad wolf is coming out for two reasons. One is, this just seems like a real dereliction of duty to the shield of the Americans, right?
Doesn't she have an important job here that she has to do? Why is she vacationing the shield of America? Shield?

**Tim Miller** (2:35)
We're about to do a coup in Cuba, so you would think that the shield would be really kind of activating right now.

**Sam Stein** (2:41)
For people who don't know, the shield of America is a counter cartel coalition. It's multinational military and security. Here we have the head of it, Christine Ohm, just noodling with Corey at a very nice vacation spot apparently in Minnesota. I just feel like we're not prepared for what's to come because she's not on the job, so that really angered me.

**Tim Miller** (3:03)
I'm sorry, the Minnesota people are going to get mad at me, but is there such a thing as a very nice vacation spot in Minnesota?

**Sam Stein** (3:09)
Nice, it did look nice, but that brings me to my second anger point, which is of all the states. There's 50 states in this country. They chose Minnesota. That's like rubbing salt in the wound, what they did to that poor state, and then to go and bike around and get a soft serve apparently at this nice little restaurant in Minnesota. How could you choose a different state? Just go across the border.
Michigan's fine, I don't know. One of the Dakotas, just anything other than Minnesota. That seems wrong.

**Tim Miller** (3:38)
I thought you were going to be upset on behalf of Brian. No, I'm not.

**Sam Stein** (3:44)
Brian's living his best life. He's got his big boobs and he's hanging out and he's rid of this nonsense.
I'm not upset for him. I think he's doing just fine.

**Tim Miller** (3:53)
Okay. I hope Corey's wife is able to also take a lot of time.

**Sam Stein** (3:57)
What is she thinking? I mean, why are we going with the charade that they're not together? Can't they just be together?

**Tim Miller** (4:05)
Or maybe they're Polly. Polly's in these days.

**Sam Stein** (4:08)
I guess. But even so, just announce that you're a Polly. No one's going to care.
I don't care. Just get rid of this façade, this ridiculousness. You're biking with each other while the shield of America withers. Like, at least own it.