Bulwark Takes Podcast Transcripts
The Bulwark · 592 episodes with transcripts
The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither does The Bulwark. Bulwark Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team, including Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and Bill Kristol, and more.
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BOMBSHELL: Leaked Kimberly Guilfoyle Texts Reveal Brazen Corruption
October 8, 2026
Sam Stein (0:00)
All right, hey everybody, it's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bulwark, and I'm joined by the reporter and the spy, Marc Polymeropoulos, Michael Weiss. We're doing an emergency pod here, because there's a story out from the journal that is genuinely the most comical, but also most brazen and spectacular form…
Then all of the signal chats and all the texts that she sent to this dude, he just handed over apparently to the journal, and it reads like a soap opera, Michael.
Michael Weiss (1:06)
I mean, we were just discussing this offline, the last graphs of this thing, if you put it in a screenplay about just cheap chintz MAGA corruption and just read it with no edits, no notes, 10 out of 10, I would be riveted. I mean, should we just read some of the last bits here, or do we need to get into them?
Sam Stein (1:27)
I'm going to read the first bit, and then I'm going to go to the last bit, because the lead is this. The lead is just, it blows you away. I'm going to try to do it not laughing. Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become US ambassador to Greece. When she reached out to a Trump donor…
For months, Guilfoyle had been chatting with Eric Deaters, or is it Deaters? I don't actually know. Former congressional candidate in Kentucky, who was seeking her help in getting attention of the new Trump administration on some personal tags and legal issues, and had promised payments of as much as $1 million if…
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