Tim Miller Has Had Enough of MAGA Phonies, Grifters and Frauds

hey everybody tim miller from the bulwark here we are in the home stretch of the election and i wanted to pop off on a couple of items some of the reporting that we've been doing in the bulwark i want to make sure you guys see and i want to put a little bit of a bow on the series going after the uh list of horrific obnoxious extreme republicans that i haven't felt like we're getting the attention they merit so we're going to do all this together in one foul swoop so stick around with me here um i want to start uh with a story out of new hampshire that um touches a lot of buttons for me so so to speak so to speak there's a fellow named scott pressler uh he is a election denier and also a as best as i can tell like extremely hard-working and dedicated like magagraph grassroots operative in addition to that uh he also seems to be an election fraudster my colleague brendan hartnett i had a huge story uh last week now titled top gop operative let out-of-state voters vote from his pa home that's right my friends election fraud is coming from inside a house in pennsylvania a mega house in pennsylvania the story is pretty damn compelling i gotta say um essentially what's happening is as i said i think pressler does genuine grassroots work and he was bringing in a bunch of people from uh from florida from oklahoma to base out of an address that that he lists as his home address on voter registration forms um and uh they were coming there they were doing content activations they're doing door knocking they're doing voter registration and then several of them voted in pennsylvania using that address to vote in pennsylvania you need to live in the intended election district for at least 30 days before election day but i was very clear uh any individual who wishes to vote in pennsylvania must reside in the state and the intended election district for at least 30 days before election day and then importantly a person shall not be considered to have gained a residence in any election district of the state for which he comes for temporary purposes only without the intention of making such election district his permanent place of abode so you know i think it's pretty clear that for example if you're if you have somebody uh who came from florida say like heather langley who uh uprooted her life to spend the next three months helping trump in pennsylvania and then returned home afterwards that would not qualify as someone that had the intention of making that election district their permanent place of abode their intention was to come there to help donald trump for the election district several of them so anyway hello to our friends in harrisburg might be something to investigate um i know this has been bopping around pennsylvania politics um so scott pressler maybe he was kind of having a kind of a home for wayward election fraudsters a little cartel abode in pennsylvania where he was doing election fraud allegedly uh this week went out to new hampshire to help the republicans in new hampshire and a video that was posted by one of the turning points usa guys welcoming scott to their canvassing event did catch my eye on social media and i would like to play that for you hey everybody this is scott pressler i'm here with davis and brandon of turning point action now we just wrapped up in high energy electric event here in manchester and so after the event we're knocking on doors making sure that everybody is coming out to vote for our republican candidates and davis who was running for the united states senate here in new hampshire and davis who was running for the united states senate here in new hampshire johnny sununu and who do we have for congress here brandon in this district we have anthony di lorenzo so new hampshire i stopped what i was doing in pennsylvania coming to your state because i believe in you make a plan to vote by tuesday november 3rd 2026 game on yes queen coming to your state indeed uh maybe a little bit of a fugitive against the law i don't know what pete zaps would make of that video um uh that wasn't i wouldn't say the most masculine and authoritative piece of content that i've seen definitely had his little gaggle around him scott pressler busting out of his shirt little guy kind of busting out of his shirt there while scott pressler was prancing around and knocking on doors very wrist forward and how he knocks on the doors not what we were promised at the mma fight on the white house lawn i guess i would say um but i think it's pretty noteworthy that you know there he is having done some alleged voter fraud crimes in pennsylvania maybe something for new hampshire to look into to see what else he's up to so there we go that's what we have from scott pressler sashaying away from pennsylvania into the granite state and then one of the candidates mentioned there by the short king that he was with is uh the republican running for congress anthony di lorenzo and i think let's just start with him while we run through a few of these other uh republican house candidates that i think people should know a little bit more about um anthony uh participated in this great new hampshire tradition that i've like had the pleasure of participating in several times uh which is you have to go sign up to get on the ballot in person and uh the media waits there and after you you know um officially uh get on the ballot as a candidate you take questions from the assembled local press at a time like this and then you have to get on the ballot as a candidate that is a great american tradition in a free country is something i've done on the presidential side i was with jeb was with john huntsman in 2012 uh i had really great memories watching this video of being that same little room um watching a candidacy that's going to lose eventually blossom or start and uh this was another such case uh and i had to laugh um when i went and pulled out the video of uh of anthony's moment there the secretary of state's office and uh he kind of stumbled out of the gate with what i believe was the very first question of his official candidacy let's watch that are you the mega candidate in this planet i wouldn't put labels on me i i certainly support most of the actually all of a large percentage of the president on his on the issues i support that it's for most uh all a large percent a large percentage on the issues kind of a whiff there on question one you know the campaign's getting off the ground and it's like are you a mega candidate for me that'd be an easy one no um for somebody um for anthony constantino for example the mega rapper who's also a sticker salesman um in upstate new york would have been an easy question for him to answer yes uh in fact uh donald trump can direct me to do whatever he says when i'm in congress it's something that answer any constantino has has indicated um for this guy i was like well well i like him but it's it's yeah it's yes it's everything that has made most things and um you know it's just it's very it's very mike rogers coded and um it's micro just coded in several ways um in addition to just let's just let's look at him like aesthetically like the way he dresses he goes on to answer that question by talking about um and cutting regulations and strong military you know the types of things that a republican would have talked about in 1997 um he's talking about that he just kind of seems like he's the type of guy that like probably was just a mainstream republican 15 years ago and now he's ambitious wants to be in office and so he's trying to mag a butch himself up and uh he's struggling to find the right you know the right balance there and um something that mike rogers has dealt with you end up shooting you know you end up overshooting you end up running a campaign of racist hate against uh an entire religion uh because you know you want the magus to like you that's where anthony di lorenzo found himself as well and like my garages as well they both like the boat life they both like the boat life pura vida you know it makes you wonder a guy like anthony di lorenzo and mike rogers why not just head on down to costa rica live pura vida um di lorenzo has a 19 million dollar yacht 115 foot serenity now little seinfeld reference there serenity now is the name of his yacht cost about 30 000 just to fill the fuel fuel tank on that bad boy that number's going up you know with diesel prices and everything he's also been kind of lying about that and hiding it and hiding the ball a little bit on his financial disclosures you know when you're trying to pretend like you're a tribute to the working man people don't want to know all the details about kind of how you spend your money gassing up the old yacht uh but yeah look i mean rogers also a big boat man his boats in florida it's like these two guys like together they could have a fleet go down to saint bart's you can stand on the table you can dance to abba you got the flambe the champagne corks popping everywhere cougars with you that's the life i think that mike rogers anthony di lorenzo are meant to have You know, but instead they find themselves thirsting for power running for office demonizing people because their skin color they end up becoming foot soldiers in a campaign to put people into internment camps you know it's really it's really a sad story it's a morality play don't think it's gonna happen for mr di lorenzo for johnny sununu i don't think that scott presser's little hanky-panky like voter fraud effort is gonna get them over the line but we will be monitoring it here on the bulwark live stream tuesday night come hang out with us subscribe to the feed i mean honestly if you've gotten this far in this video with all the gold i'm giving you right now and you haven't subscribed to the bulwark youtube page what are you doing you'll help us get up to 2 million i want to run through a couple of the other candidates that just you know time gets away from you the sand through the hourglass we haven't been able to cover every single lunatic that the republicans have running all over the country um a couple more of my favorites um we've mentioned this fellow on the trio i do think it's worth taking another look at michael alfonso if for no other reason than just the truly dramatic eyebrows that defy gravity they don't seem like they exist in nature and they probably don't but a ton of effort being put into that for somebody covering a rural district in northern wisconsin i'm not sure there are a ton of guys up in kosh kosh you know doing eyebrow threading but um you know i think it's important that everybody self-actualizes michael alfonso if you didn't know was the middle school sweetheart and now husband of transportation secretary sean duffy's daughter he's 26 running for congress so you know not a long resume um he's also been in the podcast business like me like the fbi director um he was actually the uh a producer an assistant producer maybe on the deputy fbi director dan bongino's podcast he was a part-time church accountant i was gonna say it shows you could balance the books but i guess we haven't really seen the church's books so we can't be 100 sure about that uh he also was appearing on his father-in-law's reality show the great american road trip which was a total bomb and was funded by companies that w regulates and that nobody watched except well summer so it's not again it's not the not the best resume um our colleague brendan hartnett aforementioned who reported out the scott pressler story also reported that alfonso's campaign is financed in large part by i see if you can guess think about it for a second his father-in-law sean duffy he has no experience he started eyebrows who do you think's funding his campaign okay i bet there are two types of people you're thinking about right now one of them's wrong the correct one is corporate donors that have done business before the department of transportation i'm sure it's going to be a lot of oversight for him on the companies that are uh doing business for the department of transportation i'm sure that uh that michael alfonso when he like is looking at congress like whether or not to support contracts you know for companies that have close relationships with his father-in-law i'm sure he's going to be a little stickler on that that's him fred clark is the democrat he was on my list of long shot democrats who i think have a chance of winning in red america um so uh check out fred clark there that's wisconsin seven uh running through just a couple other folks i've been wanting to do this guy for a while because i was watching this race on on election night it's florida 22 um the democrat pia dandia i believe i've mentioned a couple times on the daily pod a super impressive uh democratic candidate teacher and um very dynamic and this is one of these districts down by mar-a-lago um that i think is flippable and it's kind of part of the the dummyish mander part of what what santas did um with mid-cycle redistricting the republican race in florida 22 and we really could have done a whole video just on the cast of characters and that and it was just a full star wars bar of like insanity and freaks i mean it was freaks and geeks on steroids over there in florida 22 and uh the guy that came out of it was not like even the person that the party was pushing for that the maggot people were pushing for um it was a self-funding guy named casey askar he uh ran in the primary um pretending to be a rich guy that was a strong longtime loyal ally of trump and a maha believer uh the problem with that is that um he was full of shit on all the accounts i mean he's basically he did the full jd vance but he speed ran it in about two years casey askar was not a fan of donald trump all the way up until october 2021 so after the first trump administration into the biden administration casey askar tweeted this article articles the headline was as a latinx entrepreneur i challenge you to help underrepresented minorities in your industry so he was like tweeting out dei woke nonsense articles in october of 2021 he also sent a tweet criticizing trump for over throwing democracy and for people taking his money uh on the maha stuff also fake uh in 2021 he was posting an article demanding that the military mandate covet 19 vaccines so this guy is like a total phony baloney and two years after january 6th he looks around and he's like you know what i'm for trump now it's like it's like i'm for trump before january 6th and before all the impeachments and indictments casey askar was just you know a businessman from a marginalized community trying to make sure all the resistance folks out there in the world would just become his friend on linkedin that was his deal and then people stormed the capital with trump flags trump goes down to mar-a-lago and hiding uh trump gets indicted four times in different jurisdictions trump's keeping classified documents in his bathroom at mar-a-lago mar-a-lago and after all that casey asker looks around and he's like you know this is the time to get on the trump train this is the time to get onto the trump train because i know a bunch of gullible suckers if i see them and guess what he was right he was right he pretended like he was with trump the whole time and the republican primary voters in florida 22 rewarded him with a victory not only by the way as he just come around on trump totally he came around on the january 6 rioters said that uh he thinks they're innocent they're treated unfairly sympathetic to that and then this campaign started and he's like fully put on the mega costume askar himself an immigrant to the united states from iraq somebody that if donald trump's muslim ban was in place when he had immigrated would not have come to the country and i don't know who maybe should be looking over his shoulder in case he gets a samuel say treatment sometime soon uh he called his opponent a dei candidate his website still talks about dei and the dude is just a total total phony baloney he's like patrick bet david without the charisma it's just all fake total scam florida 22 pia dandy a much better candidate i wanted to talk about nevada more uh because i do think that there's big opportunities for the democrats there the governor's race for example joe lombardo is sitting governor of nevada i think he is vulnerable um and i think some of the house candidates are vulnerable nevada too has been a safe house seat for republicans for a while the incumbent mark amadei is retiring he has said publicly that he won't vote for david flippo he is the candidate he's running against theresa benitez thompson this race was also on my list of uh stretch seats uh when i first suggested it by the way you know i i the list it's a little bit of science a little bit of art you know type of people who i like to cut of their jib producer ansley was doing a bunch of research we're looking at the cook list i have friends that are in den politics i've been uh you know who have insight into this sort of stuff i would ask people in various states what they thought and i got some pushback on this district at the beginning it's like yeah it's from from my nevada kitchen cabinet of advisors which is like the two people i know that live in nevada and and work in politics and they're like they just didn't see it happening and um you know as we get as we get deeper and deeper into um election season and trump's get trump gets less and less popular um this seat i think is really in play and uh as a result i think the republicans might regret nominating uh this fellow flippo um and not this whole another thing that's just totally fake he didn't live in this district at all after amadei retired he got a short-term rental like he got like an airbnb for him and his staff to live in and he said that that's now he's in the district which is not right and even the uh former chairman of the nevada republican party um has filed a complaint against him for campaign finance violations he lied about his military record and he blamed his staff for that he even threw his grandkids out of the bus about his exaggerations about his military record the dude is just not knocking it out of the park there in nevada too and so i wanted to highlight that race again as well we're gonna end with a little bit of candy and um up until now i've been a little reluctant to cover the race this race because um alabama's gonna alabama all right even in a wave year alabama's gonna alabama but uh the democrats put up doug jones who won that senate race against roy moore and um doug jones is a a good man and he's running for governor and he's running against a bad bad man and tommy tuberville i've got a little bit of personal lore with that doug jones roy moore race that i want to regale you guys with next if you make it this long in a solo tim video you should you should get to hear a little bit about what what happened in the before times right after i guess it was right after the 2016 election this is a special election you know i was pretty prominent as a um republican speaking out against trump and at that time i was kind of known for uh the oppa research work that i'd done on the republican side and um i moved to california i'm in a deep depression i'm in my home my husband is a breadwinner i got mad about something that roy moore did or said i can't recall anymore and i just fired off a tweet that said i've never voted donated to a democrat before the first democrat i'm going to donate to my whole life is doug jones like for whatever reason this tweet goes viral um we end up i'm living in oakland at the time i end up having an npr reporter from the oakland npr so you can imagine like how progressive this person is and the kinds of stuff that they're covering um on the npr beat in oakland and like they come to our condo there and treat me like i am a rare animal that they have discovered in the african safari i mean it's just like there is a people there is a republican living in oakland and he has a conscience we went to find out what it was like to see if he had any horns um and uh and so i did this interview on npr and after that like people started calling it just got attention so people started calling me and i had nothing to do um because i was in my depression one of the people that ended up calling me off of this was one of the women that had been um you know sexually assaulted by roy moore when she was underage and um she called me and like asked for advice about like media interviews like could she help me could i help coach her on media interviews and i was like sure and um one thing that leads to another and she tells somebody and so i would tell somebody this game of telephone happens and we're on the eve of the roy moore doug jones election and steve bannon like catches wind of the fact that i'm not going to be able to do anything about it i was helping her and advances a lie that i actually was behind all the women like as multiple women came forward but i was the one that had you know went out and found them and you know that i was being paid by you know who the hell knows soros or something who knows and that this was like a never trump screw job and like these women are liars and i and it was just like all totally fabricated like reporters from everywhere calling me and roy moore i believe it was gosh now i'm going from memory i believe it was two or three days before the election like has an event where he he named me he was like it was tim miller and i never did anything with those women it was tim miller that did it and i was just like this is insane like the whole thing was in the whole thing was insane he lost deservingly the people of alabama for once did the right thing shout out war eagle i can say that since we beat auburn last weekend um and uh doug jones ends up going to the senate it was it was it was a whirlwind i could i could do 15 more minutes or all kinds of side plots that happened um with all the various accusations going back and forth but that was the gist of it doug's running again so i feel like i have a cosmic connection to him uh since i was accused of being the person that created the environment that allowed him to get into the senate when it was doug that did all the work i didn't do shit i returned the phone call of a woman who'd had fucking horrible treatment by by roy moore and that was all i did i don't know whatever gave him 20 bucks i didn't remember that was funny but people were accusing me of doing it wasn't me it was doug and now he's back doug's back he's running for governor and it's a tough race um because uh as horrible and disgusting as tommy tuberville is roy moore was just uniquely bad and roy moore was like vivek and then below like maybe the worst campaign that we've had with the like even worse than herschel walker him and vivek right now are neck and neck so um tuberville might still sneak through but i think a good way to close the worst craziest most awful extreme republican candidate series would be with a discussion of tommy tuber he'd been a football coach a bad one he got to the senate and um did mostly harm he you know blocked promotions of things he'd done based on you know far-right cultural conservative nonsense um he recently took on the influx of furries uh in the airline industry and that was a problem that people should be concerned about that's something that he is addressing in 2020 he said that he would pledge every penny of his salary to veterans because he made a lot of money as a football coach you might remember turns out that didn't happen that was a lie so he stole the money from veterans that he's promised to them he says that americans are white nationalists my opinion of a white nationalist is if someone wants to call themselves a white nationalist to me that's an american it's an american so he he just sees america as a white nationalist country so he doesn't he doesn't see that as a problem or or a slur or a criticism he's just like that's in his p-brain like that's his definition of what america is um he is concerned about white genocide um he has brought that up uh he is not very smart he said that the european theater of world war ii was fought to free europe of socialism he missed the first word in there it kind of ties the white nationalism the socialism together so that was kind of a key miss for him um he said that the three branches of the u.s federal government were the house the senate and the executive and um just because he's dumb um he wants to make sure other people are dumb too he wants to keep alabama dumb that's kind of that's kind of his red hat i would think if you're tommy tubberville cad keep alabama dumb just this week he said that he wants kids to quit going to auburn alabama and troy uh because they end up spending a hundred thousand dollars and then end up at walmart so that is the aspirational vision of the wannabe governor of alabama if you or a friend lives in alabama do yourselves a favor you know vote for doug jones a good man who'd be a good probably make the schools better and create jobs that people take from us in louisiana it'd be kind of a meta win as well so there you go that's the series there are a lot of horrible republican candidates we'll get to keep talking about the ones that win next week but hopefully it's going to be fewer and fewer of them fingers crossed subscribe to the feed again thanks for sticking with us we'll see you soon