The Daily Blast: Trump Press Sec Goes Full MAGA Cult in Crazed, Angry Tirades at Media

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Republicans are blaming Democratic rhetoric for inciting the alleged assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. To that end, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed tirades at journalists that were soaked in MAGA derangement. One cultishly lionized Trump as a “fearless president” for standing up to “bullets” while absurdly accusing the media and Democrats of “11 years” of “hateful” and “violent” speech about Trump. The other tore into Democrats and the media for daring to point out that Trump poses an “existential threat to democracy,” as if that’s not rooted in his actual conduct, which it is. Yet if anything, the media has not sufficiently conveyed the threat Trump poses. We talked about this disconnect with Matt Gertz of Media Matters, who’s been writing well about the absurdity of inviting Trump to the press dinner. We discuss the danger Trump poses for press freedom, why the media struggles to report on the threat despite being a target, why time is running out to get this right, and how Democrats should proceed now. 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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0:35.5	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
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0:49.6	After a heavily armed man tried to breach security at the White House correspondence dinner,
0:55.9	apparently to kill Donald Trump or others in his orbit,
0:59.3	Trump and Republicans immediately started blaming Democratic rhetoric about Trump for the incident.
1:05.9	Unsurprisingly, Caroline Levitt was more disgusting on this score than just about anyone else. Some media figures did
1:13.1	fall for some of this, but really this moment should drive home some fundamental truths for the media.
1:19.5	Each side does use incendiary rhetoric about the other, but only one of the two parties is correct
1:25.5	in describing the other as extreme and profoundly dangerous. Only one of the two parties is correct in describing the other as extreme and profoundly dangerous.
1:29.7	Only one of the two parties is fundamentally hostile to liberal democracy and fundamentally
1:35.3	hostile to the mission of the free press itself. Democrats should make this playing.
1:41.3	We're talking about all this with Matt Goertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, who has long
1:45.9	been an observer of the media's inability to cover that basic reality fairly. Matt, good to have you on.
1:52.7	Good to be back. So as of this recording, Cole Thomas Allen of California has been charged with
1:58.7	a plot to assassinate Trump.
2:04.0	This came at the White House correspondence dinner on Saturday night.
2:09.9	Matt, can you explain the bigger context here how this dinner is a gathering of the elite of the elites with media figures perhaps being too willing to be cozy with Trump, given his
2:15.6	attacks on liberal democracy and the press itself?
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