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And Trump, even at the start of the war, gushed that it was savvy and genius to attack Ukraine like that. Real quotes, savvy and genius was his reaction. A big part of it is also his…
Daley: Here we go again, right? This is all of Donald Trump’s favorite lines about election fraud, about vote by mail, about how the 2020 election was stolen from him. And once again, all…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 18 episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch this interview here. Perry Bacon: Good morning. This is Perry Bacon. I’m…
Sargent: Yes, I think there’s no question about it. There’s this new Pew poll I want to bring up. It finds Trump’s job approval at 38 percent with 60 percent disapproving. That’s abysmal.…
Greenberg: Yeah. And it’s interesting and important strategically, but it’s not that interesting morally. It’s all functionally the same. Anyway, that was a really important atmospheric…
Sargent: A hundred percent. And the mention of the authoritarianism and fascism is important, too, because there’s this weird irony around that. It works like this: The authoritarianism…
Downie: Yeah, I think that’s certainly part of it. Trump is also looking for any lever he can to prevent the House, prevent the Judiciary Committee, the Oversight Committee, those sorts of…
Krugman: Yeah. It’s going to hurt all of us a little bit, but Trump voters are particularly in the class of people who are hurt by what amounts to a sales tax, basically. And they’re not…
So you’re right in that it’s not just Trump. Sometimes we in the media shorthand this. And of course we want to know what’s in there about Trump. But we want to know who’s in it, whoever…
Sargent: Yeah. Unfortunately, that seems like it may prove right. This is where the whole thing breaks down for me. It seems like at some point, no matter what, we are eventually going to…
Sargent: What you just said before got me thinking. It does seem unlikely that a confrontation this big would happen without Trump’s explicit approval, doesn’t it? Which, if I’m right…
McGowan: Yeah, it’s absolute chaos, right? So Trump has not only lost the narrative and the ability to control it, but he does not have control of his own staff or advisers or cabinet at…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 23 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
Morris: Yeah, and I think that point’s got to come pretty soon. So we know that Trump’s really unpopular with all voters, but he’s also unpopular with Republicans, the types of people that…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 21 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
Sargent: What’s striking about what you’re saying is also the degree to which this is seeping down into every crevice of the party and its media apparatus. So you had this kind of…
Sargent: I think maybe what we’re looking at here, Swin, is a war in MAGA between two impulses. One is the one you’re talking about there, which is the unchecked conspiracism, the really…
Sargent: And health care, he’s going to preside over a rise in the uninsured rate rather than preside over a move toward universal health care, which would be progress. The polling memo…
Sargent: So you’re monitoring this stuff pretty closely. You just listened to Glenn Beck—better you than me. Now you say that the audience is on the verge of tears over the Epstein scandal…
Kurtz: Yeah, I guess I would say two things to that. One is that I think the investigations themselves are very bad and themselves corrupt because it’s an intimidation factor. It is a…
Sargent: I think Trump knows that he’s got a problem here as well with the ICE morale issue and with the unpopularity of what we’re talking about here. Trump’s been spending a lot of time…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
Sargent: Well, there was a second MAGA person who really put it out there in a way that really underscores your point. It’s from MAGA media figure Michael Knowles. Listen to this, again,…
