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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Snaps as Spin on 2026 Rigging Threat Tanks
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Davos Mockery Gets Worse
And that’s really something that we need to consider as a country: how much our primary system is distorting and damaging us on both…
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Trump Sec. Has Brilliant Plan to Lower Food Costs: Just Spend Less
“Instead, he wants to pit us against each other so that we don’t pay attention to the fact that his net worth has more than doubled while…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Polls on ICE Turns Dire
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. At a…
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Trump Press Sec Erupts in Fury at Media Over ICE as Polls Spiral Again
After fielding a perfectly legitimate question about ICE abuses on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lost her temper.…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal New Fox Poll Hits
It’s about the fracturing within his coalition, which has really intensified following the death of Charlie Kirk. And it’s about his,…
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Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal New Fox Poll Hits Him Hard
On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the world that the Kennedy Center has now been renamed after President…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult Defending New Racist Tirade
But more than anything, more than just like, I think, Somalis, this is another blatant attack on immigrant communities. Obviously, any…
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Treasury Sec Blames Liberal Media for Affordability Crisis
Struggling to afford basic necessities? Perhaps you only think you’re feeling the pinch, due to media bias against President Donald…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Loses Plot as Boat Bombing Scandal Worsens
Sargent: Yeah, I want to throw this in here, Jen. You got at this in your piece. But Jack Goldsmith—who is not exactly a liberal; he was…
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White House Press Sec Tries Desperately to Spin Mamdani Meeting
In a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Epstein Spin Implodes as Damning Info Hits
So I do still think that, even though it could end up being a moment of real weakness—and a moment we look back on and say, well, that was…
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Trump Brags About Stimulus Checks Plan Treasury Sec Already Rejected
Those senators included Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, John Fetterman, and Tim Kaine, as…
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Trump Tirade Forces Press Sec to Awkwardly Undercut Him in SNAP Fiasco
On Tuesday, President Trump unleashed an angry tirade in which he threatened to stop doling out food stamp payments until Democrats…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Ballroom Fiasco Worsens
It belongs to the National Park Service because it’s a national heritage site. It’s a place of history; it’s a place of meaning. I don’t…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Snaps at Journos as Shutdown Polls Worsen
Sargent: Yeah, I think you’re getting at what I think is a real problem in the Trump coalition, kind of in a very broad sense, right? So…
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Trump Treasury Sec Lets Slip They’re Trying to Swing Foreign Election
“In the wake of this horrible storm, many Americans in this region felt helpless and abandoned, and left behind by their government,”…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Seethes as Dumb New Epstein Spin Goes Awry
Sargent: Well, Steve, you’ve been covering politics a long time. There was a time at which you would have expected senior leaders of a…
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US SEC launches task force on securities fraud by foreign companies
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is setting up a new unit to focus on securities fraud by foreign companies, one of the…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Fawning Takes Bizarre Turn as Polls Worsen
Sargent: A hundred percent. And the mention of the authoritarianism and fascism is important, too, because there’s this weird irony around…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Knifes FBI in Back as Epstein Mess Worsens
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…
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Trump Press Sec Throws FBI Under Bus Amid Brutal Epstein Poll Fallout
President Trump’s propagandists are getting more frantic in their efforts to spin away the scandal around the Jeffrey Epstein files. White…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Seethes at Media as Epstein Fiasco Worsens
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…
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Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Queries about His Mental State Grow
President Trump is in trouble. The Jeffrey Epstein files are killing him with the base. New polls show him cratering on many issues. And…