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Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent is a staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast. A seasoned political commentator with over two decades of experience, he was a prominent columnist and blogger at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023 and has worked at Talking Points Memo, New York magazine, and the New York Observer. Greg is also the author of the critically acclaimed book An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics.  

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February 22, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Own Pollster Just Hit Him With Very Bad News—and a Warning
A poll of swing-district voters is already showing heaps of warning signs for Republicans bent on helping billionaires. That was fast.
February 19, 2025
Greg Sargent
Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will those Republicans say now?
February 15, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
February 14, 2025
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This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats’ Latino Woes
Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back.
February 12, 2025
Greg Sargent
Pope Francis’s Stunning Rebuke of JD Vance Exposes MAGA’s Dark Soul
The vice president took a stab at theology to defend the administration’s rank cruelty. Then a higher authority weighed in.
February 8, 2025
Greg Sargent
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe Into Elon Musk?
The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon contractors. No one has asked: What’s going on with that today?
February 5, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn
As the Treasury Department offers some new spin about Elon Musk’s takeover of payment systems and ousting of a top career official, Senator Ron Wyden tells us why this “reeks of a cover-up.”
January 31, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One
Did Musk’s alleged effort to access the government’s payment systems have Trump’s blessing? Or was he going rogue? Either scenario is bad, but one’s a little worse.
January 29, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s First Big Fiasco Triggers Stephen Miller’s Rage—Take Note Dems
The Democrats finally started to find their legs after Trump’s spending freeze. The key lesson? Making sheer political noise about something does make a difference.
January 25, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump Aide Karoline Leavitt’s Creepy Flattery of Him Takes a Dark Turn
Social media posts by Trump’s new press secretary reveal the irresolvable paradox—and the massive scam—at the heart of his immigration policies.
January 21, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Awful New “Invasion” Executive Order is One of His Darkest Yet
One E.O. appears to give Trump extraordinary powers as long as we’re facing “invasion.” Who gets to decide when the “invasion” is over? Take one guess.
January 18, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump Just Handed Steve Bannon a Big Weapon in His War With Elon Musk
The onerous new immigration bill would empower state attorneys general to force wholesale visa denials. It turns out Bannon can use this to his advantage in the MAGA civil war over immigration.
January 14, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump Just Laid a Brutal Trap for Dems, and They’re Walking Into It
As some Senate Democrats try to amend the awful Laken Riley immigration bill, will the party unite to force Republicans to accept changes? The prognosis is not great.
January 9, 2025
Greg Sargent
Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way
The immigration bill the Senate is taking up has some horrible provisions. With worse on the way, Democrats should not be caving like this.
December 19, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie
Trump says Cheney might be “in trouble,” based on something cooked up by House Republicans. That demolishes the GOP’s spin about Kash Patel’s plans for the FBI.
December 14, 2024
Greg Sargent
How GOP Senators Are Secretly Getting Ready to Surrender to Trump
Trump wants to turn the FBI into something so draconian that the political press many not grasp it until it’s too late. And Republican senators are already giving themselves cover to go along with all of it.
December 9, 2024
Greg Sargent
Elon Musk’s Stunning $250 Million Favor to Trump Should Wake Up Dems
Musk and others helped the GOP run rings around Democrats in the info wars. I asked three leading contenders for party chair how they’d fix this.
December 5, 2024
Greg Sargent
Suddenly, Trump’s Ugliest Threats Are Facing Surprise GOP Resistance
One of Trump’s central campaign claims was that green energy and immigration pose a massive threat to American workers. But now it seems local Republicans think otherwise.
November 27, 2024
Greg Sargent
Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam
Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.
November 23, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump A.G. Pick Pam Bondi Is About to Regret What She Signed Up For
Trump’s choice to run the Justice Department may win confirmation, but Senate Democrats can lay down some serious markers during her confirmation hearings.

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