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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Why Trump’s Angry New Tirade at Dems Unnerved Even His Own Advisers

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4800 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Over the weekend, President Trump explicitly commanded Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political enemies in a crazed Truth Social tirade. He named the Democrats he wants prosecuted, and even openly boasted that he’d pushed out a veteran career prosecutor for refusing to carry out this mission. Now Rolling Stone reports that Trump’s open demand of his attorney general was so corrupt that it surprised even some of his own advisers. They apparently couldn’t fathom that he’d knowingly make it public! But we think Trump wants it to be publicly understood that he’s making this threat, and that grasping this dynamic is essential to understanding our moment. So we talked to Rolling Stone’s Asawin Suebsaeng, the reporter on that story. He explains how Trump’s threat was viewed inside Trumpworld, why even some of his most MAGA-fied advisers are not necessarily on board with this abuse of power, and what that all says about our ongoing slide into authoritarianism. 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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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

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Over the weekend, President Trump explicitly commanded his Attorney General Pam Bondi to hurry up and prosecute his political enemies.

1:43.2

In a crazed truth social tirade, he even named the Democrats he wants prosecuted and ranted wildly about them,

1:45.8

even admitting that he'd ousted a career prosecutor for refusing to do his bidding. Since then, the story's gotten worse. White House

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Press Secretary Caroline Levitt offered some comically awful spin to try to justify all this,

1:56.2

and Rolling Stone reports that Trump's open demand of his attorney general was so corrupt that it surprised

2:02.1

even some of Trump's own advisors who couldn't fathom that he'd wanted to be public.

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