Transcript: Trump’s Ugly “Dictator” Rant Forces GOP into Contortions
Sargent: Let’s start with Trump’s tweet. He said Zelenskiy is a “dictator” who talks the United States into spending money on Ukraine’s…
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Sargent: Let’s start with Trump’s tweet. He said Zelenskiy is a “dictator” who talks the United States into spending money on Ukraine’s…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 19 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
Ornstein: It was interesting, Greg, to take it in a slightly different direction. I watched slack, odd, and appalled when Trump did his…
Litman: Yeah. One of the cases you mentioned where the Trump administration was told No by a federal court is where they announced we’re…
Sargent: Now it’s starting to look very plausible that Trump and Musk will ignore court orders. JD Vance tweeted that judges aren’t…
Sargent: That actually gets at what the real core difference is between Rubio on one hand, and Trump and Musk on the other. Trump and Musk…
Beyer: Even the broader case will... I don’t know if I get in the right order, but number one: All the various international illnesses,…
Cheney: Yeah, the decision is imminent, and the sentencing is scheduled for Friday. It’s not much time for them to deal with it. Again,…
Ornstein: He’s asking for the impossible, Greg, because basically he wants to use this process of reconciliation. These are supposed to be…
Gurri: This is one more step in the long term project of delegitimizing all of the barriers to him personally doing whatever he wants in…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
A, it’s not a department. B, it’s being run by two billionaires, people who have no idea how important basic government services like…
Marshall: Yeah. To be clear, a lot of people have suggested something like this. The idea is that you create some organization, probably a…
Shoup: I can understand how some of these Democratic senators want to have a reasonable take of, I’m going to take a look at these…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 16 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
Michel: There are a few things that I focus on in particular: I’ve written about the world of kleptocracy, international money laundering.…
Second, while Trump was running in this last year and a half, Trump and the entire GOP have embraced a very extreme and very damaging…
I know some people are feeling really defeated and scared, thinking, No, they won. This is it. I don’t think we’re there yet. There’s a…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
Sargent: And you’ve got Elon Musk potentially waiting in the wings to threaten any Republican who dares challenge the MAGA agenda or…
It now looks like he’s got no particular interest in doing that. I’m hopeful that he’ll see the light in the next month or two and divest…
Sargent: Right.If you were to look at it charitably, you could say, OK, maybe Senate Democrats have a somewhat well-founded fear of…