The Daily Blast: Trump Blurts Out Revealing Aim of Law Firm Shakedown Right to Media

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Faced with President Trump’s shakedown, the Paul Weiss law firm agreed to a “deal” with Trump that sure looks like a ransom payment. Trump then told reporters that firms like these have the option to make similar “deals” to avoid getting targeted—a straight-up extortion threat right in public. We keep hearing that voters don’t care about this kind of thing. But the White House’s top political adviser is warning that Democratic anger could be a big problem in the midterms—and Trump’s lawlessness is a key driver of it. We talked to New Republic editor Michael Tomasky, who’s been arguing that we’re actually facing multiple constitutional crises and that Democrats must find their footing in this moment. He explains what all this says about Trump’s escalating lawlessness, how Democrats can harness public anger over it, and why real heroics are needed to resist it. 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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1:20.8	President Trump has completed his first successful shakedown of a major law firm.
1:30.4	The organization, Paul Weiss, has agreed to a quote-unquote deal with Trump
1:35.5	in which it gives the president major concessions in exchange for Trump agreeing to drop his corrupt use of state power against the firm.
1:44.7	Speaking about this to reporters, Trump essentially said straight out that firms like these
1:49.5	have the option to make similar deals with him if they want to avoid getting targeted.
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