Transcript: Trump Fury at Epstein Mess Explodes as Allies Openly Panic

T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 17 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic

Anxiety is rising among President Trump’s staunchest allies that he’s politically lost his way. The New York Times reports that his advisers fear...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Get to Know the Name Jay Clayton—Our Fate May Depend on His Honesty

Donald Trump’s appointments track record is just about uniformly hideous. From putting a vaccine denier in charge of public health to having our...

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Michael Tomasky

SNAP Is Back, but Trust Is Broken

For Ashleigh Ligon, a mother of six living in Federal Way, Washington, the defining word for November has been “uncertainty.” Ligon’s household is...

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Grace Segers

The Beast in Me Epitomizes “Trough TV”

In the early 2010s, seemingly everybody was talking about how television was in the midst of a “golden age.” This beatification of the medium in...

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Phillip Maciak

Trump’s Border Patrol Boss Asks Random Brown Man if He Speaks English

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Malcolm Ferguson

“It’s OK With Me”: Trump Considers Bombing Mexico

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Hafiz Rashid

Why Trump Made a Sudden 180 on Releasing Epstein Files

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Hafiz Rashid

Kash Patel Assigns FBI SWAT Team to Protect 27-Year-Old Girlfriend

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Edith Olmsted

Nicki Minaj Confirms Plan to Work With Trump’s U.N. Ambassador

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Malcolm Ferguson

Republican Lawmaker Becomes Swatting Target Hours After Trump Attack

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Hafiz Rashid

Jamie Raskin Faces Backlash After Saying Democrats Could Accept MTG

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Malcolm Ferguson

DHS Posts Wild Video Rewriting American History

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Edith Olmsted

Judge Orders Trump DOJ to Hand Over All Grand Jury Materials on Comey

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Hafiz Rashid

FEMA Head Abruptly Resigns After Going MIA

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Malcolm Ferguson

ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation

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Edith Olmsted

Chi Ossé, Mamdani Ally, Files Paperwork to Take On Hakeem Jeffries

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Turned DHS Into a “Department of Deportation”: Report

President Donald Trump’s obsessive focus on deporting immigrants has led to extreme changes at the Department of Homeland Security and undermined...

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Alexia Underwood

Trump Melts Down Over Failed Redistricting Effort in Indiana

President Donald Trump is lashing out at Indiana Republicans for rejecting his redistricting effort in the state. On Friday, Indiana state Senator...

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Robert Mccoy

The President Targets Seth Meyers in Latest Attack on Late Night

President Donald Trump and his Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, are apparently continuing their war on the media. The...

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Robert Mccoy

Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Clears Up the “Bubba” Mystery—Sort of

The internet had a field day this week when the House Oversight Committee released thousands of billionaire child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s...

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Robert Mccoy

GOP Senator Speaks in Riddles Instead of Answering RFK Jr. Question

Senator Bill Cassidy gave a puzzling answer about his role in placing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the Department of Health and Human...

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Robert Mccoy

MTG Says She Still Supports Trump—Despite Vicious Feud

Far-right politician Marjorie Taylor Greene became embroiled in a bitter public fight with President Donald Trump this weekend which led her to...

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Alexia Underwood

Protesters Slam Trump’s Newest Crackdown on Democrat-led City

Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, are rallying in opposition to the invasion of their city by federal immigration enforcement agents under...

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Robert Mccoy

In Shocking Move, Trump Re-Pardons Far-Right Militia Member

After pardoning a far-right militia member for his role in the Capitol riot, President Donald Trump gave him another pardon for an unrelated...

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Robert Mccoy

There Are Two U.S. Senates—and Only One Knows How to Get What It Wants

The United States Senate: Can’t live with it, can’t burn it down (or so my lawyers caution me). Recently, I’ve had cause to ruminate on the upper...

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Jason Linkins

Epstein Survivors Weigh in On Brutal MTG-Trump Feud: Report

As President Donald Trump and Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s feud over Jeffrey Epstein boils over, survivors of the late sex...

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Robert Mccoy

The U.S. Might Be About to Enter a New Conflict—but Trump Won’t Say

After days of deliberations with high-ranking officials, President Donald Trump thinks he may have come to a decision about a major foreign policy...

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Alexia Underwood

Trump Shares Ludicrous Epstein Files Conspiracy Theory

President Donald Trump thinks it’s possible that, some time in the past year or so, his political enemies planted damaging information about him in...

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Robert Mccoy

Trump Quietly Backtracks on Disastrous Grocery Tariffs

President Donald Trump eased some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs Friday evening, all but conceding that his trade policy has increased Americans’...

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Robert Mccoy

“Lunatic”: Trump Loses It and Unleashes Barrage of Insults at MTG

Donald Trump’s feud with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene continued Saturday, as the president unveiled two new disparaging nicknames for the...

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Robert Mccoy

Trump Stuns Reporters With Bizarre Comment About His MRI

President Donald Trump made a baffling comment after receiving an MRI, calling into question his grasp of basic medical treatment—or what he could...

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Alexia Underwood

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Fires Four People After Whistleblower Leak

Several prison employees at the facility holding Ghislaine Maxwell have been fired since internal whistleblowers revealed the extent of the child...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Shorter Megyn Kelly: Fcking 15-Year-Olds Isn’t So Bad. Fck You.

Even before the spit hit the fan this week regarding her unhinged screed about “barely legal” underage rape survivors, veteran news actress Megyn...

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Joe Lapointe

“Be Brave”: Epstein Victims Beg Congress to Release the Files

Jeffrey Epstein’s victims are pleading with Congress to release the Epstein files. In a haunting letter, the family members of deceased abuse...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s USDA Fires Worker for Talking About Importance of Food Stamps

Ellen Mei, a program specialist at USDA, was one of the thousands of federal employees who were furloughed during the record 43-day pause. But her...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

JD Vance Accidentally Undermines Trump’s Biggest Brag

Even Donald Trump’s right-hand man thinks that the economy is messed up. In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity Thursday, Vice President JD...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Plans to Use Travel Ban for Chilling New Immigration Rule

The Trump administration is planning to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards and other benefits if they are from any of the countries...

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Hafiz Rashid

The One Move That Tells Us How Crazy-Panicked Trump Is About Epstein

The key thing about Donald Trump’s presidency, when you examine it alongside the history of every other Oval Office occupant, is that to understand...

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