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Transcript: Trump Blurts Out a Dark MAGA Truth, Handing Dems a Weapon
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Seethes at Journos amid Sudden Poll Slide
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 12 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Transcript: Trump’s Threats to Unleash Troops Just Took a Darker Turn
McQuade: Well, if you look at the section that President Trump invokes as the authority, it is a federal statute that gives the president…
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Transcript: As Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens, Even Fox News Is Noticing
Sargent: No, no, I think the story is slow boat to recession, right? Isn’t that the story? Let me ask you this, though: Isn’t the big…
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Transcript: Why Trump-Musk Feud Has White House in “Full Panic Mode”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Transcript: Trump Turns Hard on Musk as GOP Bill Hit by Harsh New Data
Deiseroth: Only if they flat out lie, which we see that they’re already doing about certain government reports. This is where it starts to…
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Transcript: Trump Rages at GOP Bill Fiasco as Elon Admits It’s a Scam
Sargent: Yeah. Speaking of that, we should clarify that Trump is just lying in saying they’ll only cut waste, fraud, and abuse. The bill…
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Transcript: Trump Press Sec’s Vile Rants on Fox Badly Scam MAGA Voters
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 3 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Transcript: Trump Arrest of Immigrant Shocks Small MAGA Town
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Transcript: MAGA Fury Boils Over as Trump Tariffs Suddenly in Jeopardy
Somin: Yes, I think so. Although, it is also true that the court wasn’t completely clear whether the main emphasis of their analysis was…
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Transcript: Trump Rants about Harvard Darken amid Brutal Loss in Court
Trump (audio voiceover): Harvard has been a disaster. They’ve taken five plus, by the way, $5 billion plus. Five billion. Nobody knew that…
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Transcript: Humiliated Trump’s Anger at Putin Grows as GOP Angst Rises
Young: Right. There is a view, which I think is fairly convincing to me, that at least when Putin was starting out as the Russian leader,…
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Transcript: Trump’s Odd Ramblings to Media make Tariff Fiasco Worse
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Transcript: Trump’s Vile New Attack on Harvard Is Already Backfiring
At the end of the day, what is this witch hunt about? It’s about freedom of expression. It’s about these international students who have…
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Transcript: Trump Unravels in Wild Rants as Polling Shows New Weakness
Podhorzer: Well, this is the tricky thing about being in America. He may think his base is larger than it is—but in America, it doesn’t…
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Transcript: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Takes a “Chilling” Turn
Now, that theory, if you can even call it that, is stupid. We don’t have time on this episode to describe exactly how stupid it is, but I…
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Transcript: Trump’s Angry Tirade at Walmart Wrecks His Own Tariff Scam
I will say it’s not just the tariffs that are potentially going to result in high prices for Americans. There are a whole host of other…
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Transcript: MAGA Fury Boils Over at New Pope’s “Anti-Trump” Views
Sargent: Well, there are basically three lanes you can criticize Vance on, and I’d like to try to work through each of them. The first is…
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Transcript: Trump’s Tariff Tirade Reveals How Badly He’s Screwing MAGA
Donald Trump (audio voiceover): Just to finish, we also have a situation because everyone says, When? When? When are you going to sign…
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Transcript: Trump Humiliated by Karl Rove’s Brutal On-Air Poll Warning
Sargent: And that is really the Trump/Stephen Miller position right now. To go back to what he said about the Supreme Court, he’s…
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Transcript: Fox News Visibly Rattled as Trump’s Slide in Polls Worsens
So we’ve got the polls are fake. We’ve got, You can’t look at the polls because Trump’s agenda isn’t built for 100 days. And then you’ve…
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Transcript: Trump Spirals as Judge He Picked Delivers Harsh New Rebuke
Litman: Yeah. But I hold out hope, again, that these Alien Enemies Act cases, given the administration basically thumbing their nose at so…
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Transcript: Trump’s Fury Erupts in Crazed Rants over Shrinking Economy
And as you mentioned before, there’s a litany of other things as well. If you’re looking at this administration from other lenses,…
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Transcript: Shocker Poll Finds 52% See Trump as “Dangerous Dictator”
Sargent: So to bring this back to Bezos and Trump, I think what’s emerging here—the big story—is that there’s this small authoritarian…