Best of the Daily Blast: Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Original air date: November 17, 2025 Anxiety is rising among President Trump’s staunchest allies that he’s politically lost his way. The New York Times ⁠reports⁠ that his advisers fear he’s alienating key voters in his own coalition. And CNN ⁠reports⁠ that some Republicans are openly warning the White House that the GOP is in trouble in the midterm elections. Meanwhile, Trump just erupted in a ⁠furious new tirade⁠ about the Jeffrey Epstein fiasco. In it, he ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein’s ties to Democrats. Bondi immediately ⁠did his bidding⁠. That Trump has now formally turned the Justice Department loose in this way shows his anger over Epstein has hit new highs. Some Republicans ⁠say all these things⁠ are related: Trump is so consumed with Epstein that he’s letting everything else go to hell. So we talked to analyst Michael Cohen, who has a ⁠good new piece⁠ on Trump’s doldrums on his ⁠Truth and Consequences Substack⁠. He explains why Epstein is undoing Trump, how the MAGA coalition is fracturing, how deeper structural factors are working against him, and how it will all impact the midterms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the holiday season, which means it's time for celebration and reflection on the passing of another year.
0:08.7	To celebrate here at the DSR Network, we're bringing you some of our absolute best episodes from the past year as we celebrate the end of 2025.
0:18.6	We hope you enjoy.
0:30.9	Thank you. of 2025. We hope you enjoy. This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:37.0	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:47.6	Anxiety is rising among President Trump's staunchest allies that he's politically lost his way.
0:54.2	Several new reports document that they fear the MAGA coalition is fragile, that Republicans
0:59.5	are in political trouble in the midterms, and that Trump isn't doing enough about any of it.
1:05.3	Meanwhile, Trump just exploded in fury on truth social, saying he is now calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to
1:12.1	investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties with Democrats. Yet as one Republican pointed out, it's Trump
1:18.9	who is overly obsessed with Epstein right now, and that's part of the GOP's political problem.
1:25.1	It's clear that Trump and the GOP are in very deep political trouble, but Trump
1:29.6	doesn't seem to know it. That puts him in a moment of extreme weakness. And yet, do Democrats know it?
1:36.4	Are they really set to capitalize on it? Today we're talking about all this with Michael Cohen,
1:41.4	author of The Very Good Substack Truth and Consequences, who has new
1:45.0	pieces out on Trump's unpopularity and the GOP breakdown. Michael, good to have you on. Great, great
1:51.1	to be here. Thanks for having me. So we have a couple striking new reports out right now. Let's start
1:56.4	with the one in the New York Times. It reports that Trump allies fear that his populist message has become
2:02.2	muddled because he's spending his time courting wealthy donors, like on his ballroom, and demanding
2:08.5	Nobel Peace Prizes for his alleged successes abroad. He's also talking about going to Davos,
2:14.5	and his advisors fear this would send the wrong message right now. Michael,
2:18.7	what I find striking about this is that the GOP coalition seems to be in trouble. The non-Maga
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