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Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?

Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?
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Greg Sargent

Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn

Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn
06.02.2025 60

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Greg Sargent

Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One

Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One
01.02.2025 550

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Trump’s First Big Fiasco Triggers Stephen Miller’s Rage—Take Note Dems

Trump’s First Big Fiasco Triggers Stephen Miller’s Rage—Take Note Dems
29.01.2025 7

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Trump Aide Karoline Leavitt’s Creepy Flattery of Him Takes a Dark Turn

Trump Aide Karoline Leavitt’s Creepy Flattery of Him Takes a Dark Turn
25.01.2025 40

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Trump’s Awful New “Invasion” Executive Order is One of His Darkest Yet

Trump’s Awful New “Invasion” Executive Order is One of His Darkest Yet
21.01.2025 3

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Greg Sargent

Trump Just Handed Steve Bannon a Big Weapon in His War With Elon Musk

18.01.2025 10

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Dems’ Surrender to Trump on Laken Riley Act Is About to Get Much Worse

14.01.2025 4

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Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way

09.01.2025 5

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie

Barely moments after Donald Trump announced that he’d chosen loyalist Kash Patel as FBI director, Republicans stampeded forth to insist that this...

19.12.2024 20

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Greg Sargent

How GOP Senators Are Secretly Getting Ready to Surrender to Trump

It’s largely passing unnoticed, but Republicans are quietly laying the groundwork to give their full blessing to one of Donald Trump’s more corrupt...

14.12.2024 50

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Greg Sargent

Elon Musk’s Stunning $250 Million Favor to Trump Should Wake Up Dems

We have now learned, belatedly, that billionaire Elon Musk spent at least $250 million to help billionaire Donald Trump win the White House. One...

09.12.2024 6

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Greg Sargent

Suddenly, Trump’s Ugliest Threats Are Facing Surprise GOP Resistance

There are still nearly two months to go before Donald Trump assumes the presidency again, but Republicans or GOP-adjacent industries have already...

05.12.2024 100

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Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam

Donald Trump’s angry threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on all U.S. imports from Mexico—delivered Monday via the cautious diplomatic language of a...

27.11.2024 300

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Trump AG Pick Pam Bondi Is About to Regret What She Just Signed Up For

Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration as Donald Trump’s attorney general is unquestionably a big victory for the rule of law. But now that...

23.11.2024 60

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Greg Sargent

A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned

You probably missed it, because it created barely a ripple in the media, but last Friday, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one...

21.11.2024 2

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption

Last spring, Donald Trump presided over a meeting with the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago resort. According to The Washington Post,...

15.11.2024 10

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Greg Sargent

Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer

There are 1,000 convoluted theories floating around on social media that purport to explain why Donald Trump won the presidential race. But some...

09.11.2024 30

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Greg Sargent

How Trump Accidentally Let His Biggest Advantage Over Harris Slip Away

If you’ve spent time on social media lately, you’ve surely encountered the argument that Kamala Harris and Democrats have squandered way too much...

05.11.2024 20

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Ugly Racist Rally Finally Unmasks His Real Closing Argument

Now that Donald Trump has held his long-advertised rally at Madison Square Garden, some are claiming that the event’s parade of ugly, racist...

28.10.2024 1

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Greg Sargent

Harris’s Harsh Takedown of Fox’s Bret Baier Exposes MAGA’s Biggest Lie

Judging by the video that Kamala Harris’s campaign is circulating, her aides are pleased with one particular exchange during her interview with Fox...

17.10.2024 2

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Greg Sargent

Could Trump Win? Yes, and Some Dems Are Quietly Saying They Know Why

Kamala Harris currently retains a very slight edge over Donald Trump in this election. But Trump could still very well win, and when Democrats...

11.10.2024 7

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Greg Sargent

Fake “Autoworkers for Trump” Are Exposed, Wrecking a Bigger Trump Lie

During JD Vance’s appearance in Michigan on Tuesday, several members of the audience came dressed rather conspicuously, sporting T-shirts that read...

09.10.2024 2

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Midnight Rants Face Rude Awakening: Stunning New Jobs Report

As the clock crept toward midnight on Thursday evening, Donald Trump unleashed two all-caps social media missives that neatly captured the...

04.10.2024 6

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Greg Sargent

J.D. Vance Accidentally Reveals the Darkest Truth About Trump of All

In the biggest exchange of the vice-presidential debate, J.D. Vance left little doubt: Had he been Donald Trump’s vice president on January 6,...

02.10.2024 20

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Greg Sargent

J.D. Vance’s Stunning 2020 Admission About Trump Exposes Big MAGA Scam

J.D. Vance has a long history of telling the truth about Donald Trump, which is proving awfully inconvenient now that Vance’s chief public role as...

27.09.2024 2

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Hateful New Rants at Rally Are Harshly Debunked by Town Leader

25.09.2024 100

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A GOP Gov’s Harsh Takedown of Trump and Vance Exposes MAGA’s Ugly Core

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has written a remarkable piece in The New York Times taking Donald Trump and J.D. Vance to task for their demagoguery...

21.09.2024 40

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Trump’s Ugly Rants About Haitians Suddenly Take On a More Sinister Hue

In a shocking new development—OK, it was entirely predictable—the mayor of Springfield, Ohio has now confirmed that the widely reported threat by...

13.09.2024 1

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism

If Donald Trump wins in November and launches a full-blown authoritarian presidency next year—as he has promised to do in his own words—what...

12.09.2024 90

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Trump’s Awful Arlington Scandal Takes Its Most Disturbing Turn Yet

In recent days, Donald Trump has offered a highly distorted account of the confrontation at Arlington National Cemetery over his aides’ use of the...

10.09.2024 3

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Greg Sargent

Stunning News of Trump Sentencing Delay Sends Message: MAGA Rage Works

MAGA bullying pays off. That’s what we may have just learned, now that the judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money case in Manhattan announced Friday...

07.09.2024 20

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Greg Sargent

Finally: Top Journo Erupts at Media for Ignoring Trump’s Mental State

For many months, media critics and liberal Democrats have insisted that Donald Trump’s mental unfitness for the presidency is—or should be treated...

05.09.2024 90

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Ugly, Shameless New Offer to RFK Jr. Hands Dems a Big Weapon

Because Donald Trump always—of course—places the national interest before his own narrow political needs, he is now prepared to name Robert F....

28.08.2024 40

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Greg Sargent

Kamala’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Points the Way to a Post-MAGA America

Kamala Harris just showed us the promise of a post-MAGA future. Now it’s up to the voters to decide to take us there. In her rousing convention...

23.08.2024 3

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Greg Sargent

Biden’s Emotional Speech Hints at a Bigger Takedown of Trump to Come

President Biden’s heartfelt speech at his party’s nominating convention on Monday was a remarkable coda to a tempestuous summer for he and his...

20.08.2024 3

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Greg Sargent

Brutal New Poll for J.D. Vance Reveals a Big Trump-MAGA Weakness

No vice presidential running mate in recent memory has been scrutinized in quite the way that J.D. Vance has. Because he presents himself as an...

17.08.2024 20

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Weird “Nuclear” Moment With Elon Musk Gives Kamala an Opening

Kamala Harris has adopted a future-vs.-past frame against Donald Trump, presiding over enthusiastic rally chants of “we’re not going back.” Is...

14.08.2024 5

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Greg Sargent

Surprise Poll Reveals a Key Trump Weakness Against Kamala Harris

It’s one of the biggest unknowns about Kamala Harris’s presidential candidacy: Will she successfully reconstitute the Democratic coalition amid...

05.08.2024 100

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Angry New Attack on “Dumb” Kamala Gets Wrecked by Leaked Data

At a rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Donald Trump rolled out a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris that showcased his well-known...

02.08.2024 60

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Greg Sargent

Kamala Harris’s Harsh New Trump Takedown Cleverly Flips Script on GOP

As Republicans scramble to attack the youthful, energetic Vice President Kamala Harris, after spending months hammering President Biden’s age and...

23.07.2024 5

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