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‘Smash and grab presidency’: Political science professor describes Trump’s lawlessness in power
MSNBC· 2025-11-29 17:17
Oh, I don't know what the next three years look like, Alicia, but you know, to pick up on Jason's point, I mean, obviously, you know, the first term was a smash and grab presidency. They didn't know really what they were doing, and they had a limited amount of time to sort of get in and get out. But when they were not in power those four years, we knew that it was going to be much more methodical and this dismantling of the government, selling it of parts, uh, choosing which groups to target, uh, making it ...
Marc Elias: John Bolton was indicted "because Donald Trump hates him"
MSNBC· 2025-10-17 01:40
Mark, Mark, here we go again. I one more, right? Uh, what's your reaction, my friend? Um, as as the the indictment counts uh seem to mount up here. >> Yeah, look, I think that we can't over complicate this. With all due respect to your one of your prior guests, >> the fact is Donald Trump came into office saying he's going to seek vengeance against his political opponents. He hates John Bolton. He hates Tish James. He hates James Comey. He hates a whole bunch of other people who he is probably now going to ...
Embattled federal workers not fooled by Trump's shutdown excuse
MSNBC· 2025-10-16 05:40
So, Republicans shut down the government and ran away from Washington is really the only way to describe it. And now they're using this shutdown as cover for their plans to fire thousands of people from the government. Over 4,000 workers have received notices that they're on the chopping block as Project 2025 architect Russ Vote chases a goal of firing 10,000 federal workers.Now, those cuts have hit everywhere from infectious disease monitoring and the CDC to the Department of Education's Office of Special ...
Marc Elias to Trump DOJ officials: “Honor your oath or resign"
MSNBC· 2025-09-25 13:57
Jimmy Kimmel, he was back last night and as we said yesterday and and I made the point, Jimmy Kimmel is the headline, but he is not the full story. Whether it's Jimmy Kimmel, whether it is the sitting attorney general of New York, Leticia James, whether it's the former FBI director or a sitting United States senator, um the question is are is the public and the institutions and in this case the companies as it relates to Jimmy Kimmel, like the broadcasters, are they going to allow um the president to bend t ...