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Deadline: White House

"Infighting among card-carrying MAGA figures”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Daily News, Msnbc, Government, News, Politics, Washington Dc, Versant, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Ms Now

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Without a consistent, coherent justification for Trump’s war in Iran, a growing and vocal subsect of Trump voters is sounding the alarm.

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0:00.0

And I'm afraid that the military right now is a little bit out of control.

0:08.5

It seems to be feeding on its own successes of killing the enemy without losing too many troops.

0:16.1

How long can this go on?

0:17.7

My friends, listen to me.

0:19.9

We all have to start pressuring this administration

0:22.6

to call it a success and end this before it gets much worse. That's my opinion. I think we

0:31.6

cannot afford a wider war. The world can't afford a wider war. And I will tell you right now, if the midterm elections were held today, it will be all over for the Republican Party.

0:44.8

Hi again, everybody.

0:46.2

It's now 5 o'clock in New York.

0:47.5

This afternoon, the crack up deep inside the MAGA coalition is coming to resemble the movement itself.

0:53.8

Crass, blunt, vindictive, and notably historically unprecedented since Donald Trump arrived

1:00.4

on the scene.

1:01.5

Never in the history of Donald Trump's political rule.

1:06.5

Have the American people observed such public infighting among prominent media-savvy, card-carrying

1:12.8

maga figures quite like what's happening right now since Trump began the war with Iran.

1:18.4

People who have been with him in lockstep since the release of the Access Hollywood tape

1:23.8

all the way through, the botched release of the Epstein vials and the millions of

1:27.5

controversies and offenses in between. People who rally to his side in the aftermath of the deadly

1:33.0

insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. We noted in the last hour, Joe Kent, Donald

1:38.6

Trump's director of the National Counterterrorism Center, whose resume includes defending January

1:43.7

6 insurrectionists as, quote,

1:46.0

political prisoners and refusing to rescind claims that federal agents were responsible for instigating

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