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Mike Johnson’s Insane New Defense of Trump Shows Deep MAGA Desperation

Last month, Mike Johnson suffered from a rare outbreak of candor, consistency, and principle. Asked if he was prepared to defund the office of Special...

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility

One of the most bizarre things about the Donald Trump era has been the persistence of his aura of invincibility. Trump, who never reads books but...

31.05.2024 20

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn

On Sunday, Donald Trump posted video of a man raging and cursing uncontrollably at MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough outside what appears to be an airport in...

28.05.2024 100

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Awful New Info About Trump and “Reich” Video Shows Deep MAGA Sickness

After Donald Trump’s feed on Truth Social shared a video that heralds the coming of a “unified Reich” if he wins the White House, his campaign...

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MAGA Rage at Trump’s Trial Just Got Darker and More Dangerous

17.05.2024 70

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Sleazy $1 Billion Shakedown of Oil Execs Gives Dems an Opening

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Top New York Times Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump

Let’s state this right at the outset: The New York Times has produced a remarkable run of indispensable journalism about Donald Trump’s...

07.05.2024 50

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Greg Sargent

Mike Johnson’s Ugly New Lie About Campus Protests Hands Dems a Weapon

This week, Mike Johnson floated a wild-eyed theory about the pro-Palestinian protests that have been rocking college campuses. The House speaker...

04.05.2024 60

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump Is Now Raging at His Own Lawyer—and Wrecking a Big MAGA Fantasy

Because Donald Trump must always be seen as wielding absolute mastery over his hapless, flailing opponents, he and his propagandists want you to...

01.05.2024 60

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Shocker From Top Conservative Judge: Trump Likely To Skate Completely

“I’m profoundly disturbed about the apparent direction of the court,” J. Michael Luttig told me. “I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will...

27.04.2024 30

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court—With an Urgent Warning About Trump

If the Supreme Court takes its time in handing down a ruling on Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity for insurrection-related crimes, voters...

23.04.2024 10

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Mike Johnson’s Shockingly Pro-Ukraine Speech Really Sticks It to MAGA

It was a remarkable moment: After introducing a package of bills that includes military aid to Ukraine, Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on...

19.04.2024 20

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump’s Weird Moment With Mike Johnson Reveals a Deeper GOP Sickness

Looking back, it’s clear that one of the more fateful moments in the evolution of today’s Republican Party came when Kevin McCarthy made his...

13.04.2024 10

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Steve Bannon Accidentally Wrecks One of Trump’s Worst Lies About Biden

Steve Bannon no doubt thought he was being deviously clever. Speaking with The New York Times this week, he elaborated on a sophisticated plan that...

11.04.2024 20

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump Is Accidentally Exposing Aileen Cannon’s Shady Pro-MAGA Game

When Judge Aileen Cannon handed down her latest ruling in the prosecution of Donald Trump for stealing classified documents, many legal observers...

06.04.2024 60

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Rants in Michigan Should Be Covered as a Scandal

Donald Trump has invented a new criminological category he describes as “Migrant Crime,” and in Michigan on Tuesday, he seized on the horrible...

03.04.2024 7

New Republic

Greg Sargent

MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse

One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy...

30.03.2024 80

New Republic

Greg Sargent

RFK Jr.’s Running Mate Is Young and Very Rich. That Worries Dems.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce that he’s chosen a running mate for his third-party presidential run: Nicole Shanahan, a 38-year-old...

26.03.2024 10

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Rage-Rant About Dems “Killing” Social Security Is a Big Tell

For too long, Donald Trump has enjoyed the presumption among media and political elites that he’s fundamentally different from the Republican Party...

22.03.2024 10

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Elon Musk Pushes a Vile, Toxic Hate Video—and Exposes His Own Scam

Pinned atop Elon Musk’s mighty Twitter feed—sorry, his X feed—is a video that purports to lay bare a vast conspiracy among Democrats to...

21.03.2024 10

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Greg Sargent

Mike Johnson Suddenly Seems Ready to Stick a Shiv in MAGA

Poor Mike Johnson is in quite a bind. The House speaker simply doesn’t have a governing majority: It is borderline impossible to pass anything with...

15.03.2024 4

New Republic

Greg Sargent

GOP’s Impeachment Farce Is Imploding, and the Real Culprit Is Trump

The House GOP’s effort to impeach President Biden appears to be in deep trouble. Republicans are privately admitting that their case against Biden...

13.03.2024 10

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Leaked Audio Shows No Labels Has Zero Idea If It’ll Find a Candidate

The centrist group No Labels held a vote of delegates Friday and announced plans to move forward in seeking candidates for a third-party presidential...

09.03.2024 30

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump’s Angry Rant About Biden’s Speech Showcases MAGA’s Ugliest Scam

Amid the barrage of tweets that Donald Trump fired off during President Biden’s State of the Union address, no topic was more central than the...

08.03.2024 8

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Maddening New Poll: Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threats

President Biden’s brain trust appears confident that he will ultimately prevail over Donald Trump due to the threat Trump poses to our...

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Greg Sargent

Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon

In the wake of the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity from prosecution—potentially delaying his...

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Panicky Eruption Over Embryo Ruling Won’t Fix GOP’s IVF Mess

When Donald Trump attacked the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children, it was widely seen as a glaring...

28.02.2024 20

New Republic

Greg Sargent

How No Labels’ Spoiler Bid Suddenly Entered Full Meltdown Mode

Around six months ago, when speculation raged that Senator Joe Manchin might join a third-party presidential ticket on behalf of the centrist group No...

23.02.2024 20

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Bombshell Charges Against FBI “Informant” Wreck Trump’s Impeachment Scam

As you’ve surely heard by now, the FBI has criminally charged an informant for lying about claims related to an ongoing special counsel...

16.02.2024 20

New Republic

Greg Sargent

An Infuriating Poll Finding About Trump Should Galvanize Democrats

You’ve probably heard that Donald Trump has “tightened his grip on the Republican Party,” or that he’s “bent the party to his will.”...

13.02.2024 40

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Nightmare Special Counsel Report Is the Media’s New Hillary Emails

For many liberals and Democrats, the release of a new, harshly worded special counsel report on President Biden is stirring terrible flashbacks to...

09.02.2024 4

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Why Mike Johnson Is Having a MAGA Meltdown Over the Border Deal

Because Republicans are so profoundly concerned about the border, the House GOP leadership’s first response to the new Senate border security deal...

05.02.2024 10

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Why the Explosive Jobs Report Will Hit Trump Harder Than You Think

In recent weeks, a deep fatalism has set in among liberals and Democrats. The proximate cause has been the disconnect between President Biden’s...

02.02.2024 5

New Republic

Greg Sargent

GOP Senator Reveals the Sick Truth About the Trump-MAGA Border Scam

Republican Senator James Lankford, who is leading negotiations over a border security bill, is discovering to his great shock that Donald Trump and...

29.01.2024 10

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Mitch McConnell’s Craven Surrender to Trump: Yet Another MAGA Low

25.01.2024 20

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Elise Stefanik’s Deranged Defense of Trump Offers Democrats a Lesson

When it comes to Donald Trump’s legal travails, there are two general schools of thought among Democrats. In one, a jury’s finding that Trump is...

23.01.2024 5

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump’s Angry Rant About His Legal Mess Reveals an Ugly MAGA Truth

Donald Trump’s lawyers have been arguing in court that he should have immunity from prosecution for crimes related to his insurrection because they...

19.01.2024 5

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump Pocketed Millions in Foreign Payments. Why Won’t Senate Democrats Investigate?

Earlier this month, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an explosive report documenting that Donald Trump’s businesses pocketed...

17.01.2024 6

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Elise Stefanik’s Ugly “Hostages” Barb Points to Serious GOP Mayhem Ahead

GOP Representative Elise Stefanik no doubt thought it was shrewd to describe the rioters who attacked the Capitol as “January 6 hostages.” This...

12.01.2024 9

New Republic

Greg Sargent

How Trump’s Unhinged Immunity Demand Could Unleash a Second-Term Crime Spree

Donald Trump and his lawyers are making an extraordinary demand in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: They want Trump granted immunity from criminal...

09.01.2024 4

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Is a Trump dictatorship inevitable?

Former President Donald Trump. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 6 min Share Comment on this story ...

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Washington Post

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