Trump’s Unnerving “Dictator” Rant Forces GOPers into Wild Contortions
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:29.6 | This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. |
| 1:12.1 | On Wednesday, President Donald Trump unleashed a long rambling tweet that falsely blamed Ukrainian President Zelensky for Russia's invasion and pushed a whole lot of other lies that sounded exactly like Russian propaganda, because that's exactly what it was. |
| 1:19.3 | This forced Republicans into some wild contortions that were even more transparently evasive than usual. |
| 1:24.9 | Which raises a question, what should Democrats be saying right now about all this? |
| 1:28.8 | It seems like an unusually good opportunity to indict the whole GOP for its crave and embrace of Trump and all he represents. Will they seize it? We're talking |
| 1:35.3 | today about this to Brian Boytler, author of the Great Substack Off Message, who's offered some of the |
| 1:40.9 | sharpest advice to Democrats on how to proceed in the Trump era. |
| 1:45.9 | Good to have you back on, Brian. |
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| 1:49.8 | Let's start with Trump's tweet. |
| 1:56.3 | He said Zelensky is a dictator who talked the U.S. into spending money on Ukraine's self-defense, |
| 1:59.7 | that Zelensky played Biden like a fiddle. He said only Trump, speaking of himself, will be able to |
| 2:03.6 | settle the war, that Zelensky had better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. |
| 2:10.3 | He said Zelensky has done a terrible job and that millions have needlessly died. |
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