Jim Swift

Cincinnati, United States

Senior Editor @BulwarkOnline | Formerly @Weeklystandard, GOP House & Senate staffer | KY Colonel | CLE, STL, DC & CIN Fan

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Articles

Dear Dems, Don’t Welcome Elon Back

2 days ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Adrian Carrasquillo |Jim Swift

You may think of Donald Trump as a reckless arsonist of federal bureaucracy, but you can’t say the big guy isn’t willing to spend some government dollars when it’s for a good cause. For instance, the Atlantic reports this morning that the Trump Department of Transportation allotted more than $2 million for celebrity defense attorney Alex Spiro to investigate whether DEI policies have been causing planes to crash. (The apparent answer: They haven’t been.
A Gross and Brazen ‘DOGE Check’ Scam

3 days ago | thebulwark.com | Andrew Egger |Cathy Young |Jim Swift

Yesterday, Andrew guest-hosted for Mona Charen on Just Between Us to talk with JVL about where the Trump administration is succeeding and where it’s failing to break down the laws and norms that would otherwise restrain it, then went deep on the case of the small Trump-loyal Missouri town that has been turned upside-down by the detainment of a beloved pillar of the community who happens also to be an illegal immigrant. Check it out.Happy Wednesday.
Why Trump’s Attacks On ‘His’ Judges Will Backfire

4 days ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift

More remarkable developments from Ukraine this morning, which just carried out a third strike on one of Vladimir Putin’s pet projects: the bridge connecting Russia to occupied Crimea. Meanwhile, Russian war bloggers have identified the man they believe to be the mastermind of the drone attacks on military targets across Russia this weekend: former Ukrainian DJ Artem Timofeev. Hey, it’s important for guys to have hobbies. Happy Tuesday.
Don’t Buy the Nostalgia Trump Is Selling

5 days ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Cathy Young |Jim Swift

Horrible news from Boulder, Colorado, yesterday, where a man wielding a makeshift flamethrower attacked people marching in solidarity with the Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas. The FBI is investigating it as an act of terror. Politico reports:About 1:26 p.m., police received calls that a man with a weapon near the county courthouse on 13th and Pearl streets was setting people on fire, according to Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn.
David Jolly’s Purple Campaign for Florida Governor

1 week ago | thebulwark.com | Jim Swift

Happy Saturday!Overtime is for everyone. If you’re a Bulwark+ member: thank you. If you’re not, there’s no better time to subscribe to Bulwark+ than today. If you like today’s issue, you can share this newsletter with someone you think would value it. ICYMI: Here are links to each newsletter section so you can quickly get back to that edition you may have missed this week.
RFK Jr.’s MAHA Hallucinations

1 week ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift

As political alliances break down, embarrassing leaks to the press start to speed up. So as Elon Musk exits the government, badmouthing Republican budget efforts on his way out the door, it’s little surprise the New York Times is suddenly getting the gory details on his campaign-trail drug use:Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use.
A Whiff of Courage in the Air

1 week ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Sam Stein |Jim Swift

Thanks to everyone who came out to see the Bulwark show in Chicago last night:Next stop: Nashville tonight. Happy Thursday. by William KristolLots of us have had occasion in recent years to quote Robert Frost’s 1961 comment and lament, that “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”But could things be changing? Aren’t there signs that some liberals, confronted by the present danger of a real and vicious authoritarian threat, are beginning to take their own side?
RFK Jr.’s War on Vaccines Is Here

1 week ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift

Always another thing with these guys: The State Department has suspended interviews with foreign citizens applying for student visas from abroad while it sets up procedures to review their social media posts. The halt comes as President Trump is trying to coerce Harvard University and other institutions to restrict what can be said on campuses, with a particular focus on anti-Israel speech.
Another Indefensible Trump Pardon

1 week ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift

Not even Donald Trump’s own White House staff can keep track of what his tariff policies are.
Does Trump Want to Be the President Who Lost Ukraine?

2 weeks ago | thebulwark.com | Jim Swift

Happy Saturday!Overtime is for everyone. If you’re a Bulwark+ member: thank you. If you’re not, there’s no better time to subscribe to Bulwark+ than today. If you like today’s issue, you can share this newsletter with someone you think would value it. ICYMI: Here are links to each newsletter section so you can quickly get back to that edition you may have missed this week.