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The Michael Steele Podcast

A Moment of Clarity: Trump's Attack on Mark Kelly

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Michael Steele speaks with Sarah Matthews, Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend about Trump's attack on Captain Mark Kelly.

11.25.25 - MSNOW

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0:00.0

And now for a moment of clarity.

0:06.0

This conversation that we saw this weekend with Mark Kelly, for example, his words at the end noting that the president should note that his words have consequences, right?

0:18.7

And this idea that we're in this space now, I'm still a little bit kind of frustrated with

0:26.4

the fact that some folks out there are still shocked by this president's aggressive approach

0:32.4

to his political opponents.

0:34.6

I won't use the term enemies because we're all Americans. So, you know, we're not

0:39.3

on foreign soil here. We ain't got that fight. But he wants to make it that way. What do you take

0:45.2

away from this new threat, attack, and now, you know, military prosecution by the Department of Justice, which headsets should be ashamed

0:58.9

of himself as a former military person himself. But what does it say to you about this administration's

1:04.8

willingness to use pretty much everything at its disposal to take down a political opponent or a perceived political

1:13.6

opponent. I think what's really important is putting everything that's happening right now in

1:17.8

context. I think that Trump views this as a win, that he's going after these Democratic lawmakers

1:23.7

and that will change the narrative and that it will rile up the base. But this is because

1:29.1

these past few weeks have been some of the worst of his presidency, both first and second term.

1:34.6

And he has had a ton of setbacks. You look at he couldn't block the release of the Epstein

1:40.4

files. He's had to roll back some of his tariffs and voters are not approving of

1:45.1

his handling of the economy. And we even had the indictments of Letitia James and James Comey

1:50.5

thrown out because of sloppy work. And so now he's fixated on this issue. And he, I think,

1:56.6

is trying to do it to change the media narrative and get us talking about something else.

2:01.9

But also, it's because he doesn't like anyone questioning his power.

2:05.5

And that's what these lawmakers did.

2:07.4

And there are a lot of questions surrounding the legality of some of these orders that are coming from the DOD,

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