The Daily Blast: Raging Trump Spirals Further as Push to Jail Enemies Backfires Badly

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This weekend, President Trump raged over a video from Democrats that warned against carrying out “illegal orders.” That led him to get his Defense Secretary to launch an investigation of one of those Democrats, Senator and former Navy captain Mark Kelly. But things kept spiraling downward for Trump when a judge tossed out his corrupt prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James. The ruling—that his appointment of a stooge U.S. Attorney was illegal—shows that his slapdash targeting of enemies is what backfired. In all these stories, Trump is corruptly weaponizing the system to get revenge on enemies for corrupt purposes, and it’s running aground for him. We talked to David Kurtz, who covers legal issues for Talking Points Memo’s excellent Morning Memo newsletter. We discuss how Trump’s own corruption is blowing up in his face, how the failing prosecutions are connected to his vile effort to get revenge on Kelly, and why we’re going to need another post-Watergate-scale reform effort to salvage the system once all this is over. 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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1:03.2	This week brings two major developments when it comes to President Trump's corrupt weaponization of the justice system.
1:09.3	First, a judge threw out the Justice Department's prosecutions of two of Trump's enemies,
1:12.5	James Comey and Letitia James, ruling that Trump's stooge prosecutor had been appointed unlawfully.
1:16.7	Second, the Defense Department just announced that it's investigating Senator Mark Kelly
1:21.4	as clear retaliation for his participation in an explosive video in which Democrats warned against following illegal
1:29.1	orders. Trump erupted in fury at that video over the weekend. The through line here is that in both
1:36.5	these cases, the system is being corruptly used as a weapon of revenge, and that appears that these
1:42.1	schemes are blowing up in Trump's face. So how heartened by
1:45.9	this should we be? We're talking all this over with one of our favorite legal analysts,
1:50.6	Talking Points Memo Editor at Large, David Kurtz. Always good to have you on, man.
1:56.0	Hey, Greg, good to be with you. So the big news is that a federal judge just threw out the prosecutions of former FBI
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