President Donald Trump has revealed the core gambit driving his MAGA movement, and it paints a disturbing picture of where the Republican Party is at right now,President Donald Trump has revealed the core gambit driving his MAGA movement, and it paints a disturbing picture of where the Republican Party is at right now,
Trump revealed MAGA's core gambit — and it paints a disturbing picture of the GOP: expert
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President Donald Trump has revealed the core gambit driving his MAGA movement, and it paints a disturbing picture of where the Republican Party is at right now, according to one political expert.
David Rothkopf, who served in the Clinton administration, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that Trump's recent attacks against Republicans like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), even as his poll numbers continue to slide, offer a window into what Trump has really offered the Republican Party. He noted that Trump is underwater on several key issues heading into the midterms, ranging from the economy to immigration, yet still enjoys almost no criticism from Republicans.
In normal times, Trump's poll numbers would be a point of concern for Republicans, Rothkopf continued. However, it seems the most active voters in the Republican base are happy to go along with Trump, which Rothkopf argued is a sign of what Trump has really offered to his base.
"We're sort of stripped down to the core MAGA proposition right now," Rothkopf said. "And what that is, is Trump and his billionaire buddies saying to the key parts of their base, 'We will protect you because we'll destroy democracy, we'll set up an autocracy. You'll get to keep your jobs and will advance your racist, white nationalist agenda if you just allow us to keep stealing money and enrich ourselves and pass tax bills that help billionaires and screw everybody else.'"
"That's the deal — racism for grift," he continued. "That's the core proposition of the Trump era: authoritarianism for wholesale corruption. That's the exchange that's taking place."
Rothkopf warned that voters could make Republicans pay during the midterms for their capitulation to Trump. However, Republicans appear to be testing those efforts by redrawing Congressional election maps in states across the country. Trump has also refused to rule out sending federal agents to monitor polling places during the upcoming election.
Political analysts and observers roundly mocked the Trump-aligned leader of CBS News on Monday night after a new report indicated that she could potentially be sidelined from the station's TV decisions.
Dylan Byers at Puck News reported that CBS bosses are considering removing editor-in-chief Bari Weiss from her role overseeing the network's TV programming. The move came after CBS News was sharply criticized for its interview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and as ratings continue to slide for the network's signature show, "CBS Evening News."
"Bari has endured her role as media punching bag with relative aplomb, refusing to betray exhaustion or vulnerability while seeming to plow ahead with her plans to overhaul the network," Puck reported. "Meanwhile, Ellison and the Paramount brass have afforded her ample leeway because they genuinely like her, endorse the editorial pivot, and, frankly, have far bigger priorities than the news division. But there are signs that the dynamics are starting to shift."
Political analysts and observers mocked Weiss on social media.
"A generational talent," journalist Alex Goldman posted on X.
"Seems the foreign collusion and propagandizing was even too blatant for the Ellisons," journalist Julian Andreone posted on X.
"Shocking that David Horowitz's polemic protégée has zero instinct for television as a business — who could possibly have guessed," Dave Troy, a publisher and writer, posted on X.
"Good news!" political analyst Neera Tanden posted on X.
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Scott Jennings issued a rare warning to President Donald Trump on Monday during a CNN panel discussion.
Jennings, a long-time GOP political consultant and senior political commentator at CNN, joined the panel on CNN's "NewsNight," where he was asked about the new $1.776 billion fund President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is putting together to pay the president's allies who claim they were unfairly prosecuted by the Biden administration. The fund is being created as part of a settlement agreement to a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS for allegedly leaking his tax returns to harm his reputation.
"All of this makes me a little uncomfortable because it's a lot of money, and it didn't go through the U.S. Congress," Jennings said about the fund. "That's number one. Number two, I don't want to see a president necessarily handpicking people to get payments where he could be accused of just picking people out who are political allies."
Reporting about the fund indicates that the Attorney General would be allowed to pick the five-member commission that holds sway over the payments. Trump could remove one of the members for any reason, and there is a stipulation that says the federal government can't be held liable for any crimes committed by people who receive the money.
Jennings also expressed concern about people involved in the January 6 insurrection who attacked police officers receiving payments.
"My personal view is that anybody who committed documented violence against the government or against police officers has not been unfairly treated if they ended up being convicted of a crime because of the violence they committed," Jennings said. "I got no real sympathy for them."
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MS NOW's Rachel Maddow went off on what she described as a "fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt" scheme that seems to have embroiled the president.
Maddow discussed President Donald Trump's recent financial disclosure during her opening segment on Monday and highlighted a startling pattern — several of Trump's stock trades coincided with a major policy announcement that moved markets. For instance, Maddow flagged a January trade in which Trump bought stock in a major microchip manufacturer about a week before he relaxed regulations allowing the company to do business in China.
She also noted that Trump told a crowd at one of his rallies to buy Dell stock just weeks after he purchased $9 million worth of shares. He's also boosted Palantir stock on his Truth Social account, a trade that also showed up in his disclosure form, Maddow added.
"He literally even posted the stock ticker abbreviation for Palantir right after he bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of their stock and got online to boost it, giving people the stock ticker abbreviation to make it easier for them to go buy some Palantir to boost the value of the stock he just bought," Maddow said. "This just appears to be fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt
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