“Chilling”: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Just Got Much Darker
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
4.4 • 798 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Trump has been raging at Bruce Springsteen for days now, demanding investigations of him with an intensity that borders on the comical. |
| 0:51.1 | It's easy to dismiss this as the unhinged rantings of the very unwell person who just |
| 0:56.2 | happens to be president of the United States, but in the background, the U.S. attorney for New |
| 1:03.0 | Jersey has just charged a House Democrat, La Monica McIver, with supposedly assaulting and |
| 1:09.0 | impeding a law enforcement officer outside an |
| 1:11.7 | ICE detention facility. Guess who's bringing those charges? Alina Haba, a top ally of Donald Trump. |
| 1:21.0 | Asu and Sub-Sang, a writer at Rolling Stone magazine, has a new piece arguing that we need to take |
| 1:26.2 | Trump's demands for investigations |
| 1:28.0 | into Springsteen more seriously. And we think that New Jersey episode shows why. Little by |
| 1:34.8 | little, Trump's use of investigatory power against political opponents is escalating. So we're |
| 1:41.1 | talking to Asowen about all this. Good to have you back on, Swin. |
| 1:45.8 | I'm so fucking sick of this shit. |
| 1:48.1 | I mean, not talking to you. |
| 1:49.7 | I love coming on you or whatever you invite me on. |
| 1:51.9 | It's awesome. |
| 1:52.6 | But you know what I mean. |
| 1:55.2 | Well, I'm really glad that my intro got a rise out of you because that means it drew blood. |
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