Trump’s Setbacks Signal Blowback for the President
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MS NOW, Ali Velshi
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🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It is Saturday, May 30th. I'm Ali Velshe, and we begin this hour with a burst of setbacks for Donald Trump that could signal the start of a season of blowback, an election season, no less. |
| 0:18.8 | First, the president's brazenly corrupt slush fund to pay off the insurrectionists who stormed |
| 0:23.1 | the capital in his name is on ice. |
| 0:25.4 | A federal judge blocked the fund while a lawsuit brought by a fired January 6th prosecutor, |
| 0:30.4 | among others, goes forward. |
| 0:32.4 | And then another federal judge ordered the Trump administration to answer allegations |
| 0:36.5 | made by dozens of yet more former federal judges that the Trump administration to answer allegations made by dozens of yet more |
| 0:39.3 | former federal judges that the entire deal in which Trump withdrew his $10 billion lawsuit |
| 0:45.0 | against a government he controls was premised on deception. Now, we're going to talk more about |
| 0:50.1 | both of these rulings later in the hour, but you don't need to be a lawyer to understand that |
| 0:54.2 | there is something wrong with Donald Trump the citizen, suing a government run by Donald Trump |
| 0:58.9 | the president, and then the two Donald Trump parties negotiating a big payout in favor of the |
| 1:03.9 | people who tried to violently overthrow the government on his behalf after he lost an election |
| 1:08.6 | that he continues to deny losing. A recent poll by the |
| 1:12.1 | economist in UGov released on Wednesday found that 52% of Republicans and 45% of MAGA supporters |
| 1:19.9 | oppose this $1.776 billion slush fund. To add insult to injury, yet another federal judge says he has to take, |
| 1:29.2 | Trump has to take his name off the Kennedy Center. It makes it very easy for us on this show, |
| 1:33.3 | because we've never called it anything but the Kennedy Center. A panel of Trump's handpicked allies, |
| 1:37.8 | as you will remember, added his name to the building late last year, but as the judge wrote in his |
| 1:42.7 | ruling, quote, Congress gave the Kennedy Center |
| 1:44.6 | its name, and only Congress can change it. And then there's the president's war of choice with Iran. |
| 1:50.4 | I think it's in its 91st day now, which has cost tens of billions of dollars in military spending |
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