This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Donald Trump has been spinning wildly about his success in ousting disloyal Republicans and primaries, and he has been succeeding at that.

But underneath this story is a much bigger truth.

Trump is losing control of the GOP on many fronts, and his political project is failing more broadly.

Trump's corruption is forcing Republicans to abandon him, and he's trying really hard to turn that around as a crazed tirade on truth social reveals.

There are other signs of failure, too, for instance, that Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia's criminal case

was just dismissed as a vindictive prosecution. We're trying to make sense of all this with

New Republic Deputy Editor Jason Lincoln's, who's been arguing well that Trump's corruption and criminality are actually political liabilities for him.

Jason, thanks for coming on.

It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.

So here's where we are. Trump succeeds in ousting a bunch of disloyal Republicans,

but that's now backfiring. Republicans are so

pissed that they're granting him less leeway on his corruption. They're turning against the funding

for the ballroom. Republican senators just unloaded on acting attorney general Todd Blanche over the

slush fund. House Republicans shelved a vote on a measure ending the war because they didn't

have the votes to defeat it. Jason, how do you explain this sudden GOP move against him?

Right now, I think that we're seeing both the strengths and the limitations of Trump's

thrall, his hold on the party and his base. We've seen in a couple of Trump's thrall, his hold on the party and his base.

We've seen in a couple of elections now that his base, when they're riled up, are still

capable of dealing a primary defeat to a Republican that steps out a line for Trump.

But the cartoon villainy has gotten to a point that outside of a rump that I think you've

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