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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

“Chilling”: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Just Got Much Darker

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4798 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has raged at Bruce Springsteen for days, demanding investigations as retaliation against him for criticizing the president. This is easy to dismiss as the usual lunacy, but Rolling Stone reports that there’s a genuine idea at work here: Trump has long planned to use government agencies to constrain his opponents’ political activities, and that’s now under way. Indeed, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, staunch Trump ally Alina Habba, just brought charges against a House Democrat for trumped up reasons. Given all this, Trump’s fury at Springsteen suddenly looks a lot darker. So we talked to Rolling Stone writer Asawin Suebsaeng, co-author of that article. He explains how Trump is slowly escalating the use of investigatory power against political foes, what the GOP is doing to make this possible, and why the trend is deeply “chilling.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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