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Greg Sargent
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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May 31, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility
His conviction on 34 felony counts is powerful new information, and we should hold institutional Democrats responsible if they don’t use it—ruthlessly and effectively.
May 28, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn
His posting of a video of a man cursing at Joe Scarborough sends a broader message: If elected, he’ll use state power to come after countless other Americans.
May 23, 2024
Greg Sargent
Awful New Info About Trump and “Reich” Video Shows Deep MAGA Sickness
Yes, the campaign took down the “Unified Reich” video. Meanwhile, Trump and his allies are aggressively seeding the discourse with fascistic language that’s much, much worse.
May 17, 2024
Greg Sargent
MAGA Rage at Trump’s Trial Just Got Darker and More Dangerous
Republicans aren’t just showing “loyalty to Trump.” They’re saying that Trump is more important than the rule of law.
May 16, 2024
Greg Sargent
The Saga of Clarence Thomas and His Luxury RV Takes a Disturbing Turn
In a new letter, Democratic senators press the associate justice on whether he’s paid off the loan for that famous R.V.—and whether he may have ducked federal tax obligations.
May 11, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Sleazy $1 Billion Shakedown of Oil Execs Gives Dems an Opening
Shocking revelations about what Trump offered Big Oil executives at their elite Mar-a-Lago gathering sure smell of a direct quid pro quo. Democrats need to expose this.
May 7, 2024
Greg Sargent
Top New York Times Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump
Why asking our media to get it right on Trump’s threat to democracy is not remotely the same as being in the tank for Biden
May 4, 2024
Greg Sargent
Mike Johnson’s Ugly New Lie About Campus Protests Hands Dems a Weapon
The speaker’s invocation of the name of George Soros bursts a tactical door open for Democrats—if they have the guts to walk through it.
May 1, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump Is Now Raging at His Own Lawyer—and Wrecking a Big MAGA Fantasy
Over on Fox News, even Trump’s naps are a power move. The reality is different—and no one knows it more than Trump himself.
April 27, 2024
Greg Sargent
Shocker From Top Conservative Judge: Trump Likely to Skate Completely
J. Michael Luttig sees two potential outcomes from Thursday’s Supreme Court arguments. Both are grim for our democracy.
April 23, 2024
Greg Sargent
Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court—With an Urgent Warning About Trump
There’s still a lot we don’t know about what Trump did on January 6. And the Supreme Court may prevent us from ever knowing it.
April 19, 2024
Greg Sargent
Mike Johnson’s Shockingly Pro-Ukraine Speech Really Sticks It to MAGA
The House speaker’s comments wrecked one of the far right’s most ridiculous, reprehensible tropes.
April 13, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Weird Moment With Mike Johnson Reveals a Deeper GOP Sickness
Many prominent Republicans in competitive races are in full thrall to the deranged election denialism that Donald Trump has required of them.
April 11, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Big Lie About Biden Implodes After MAGA Ally Admits Truth
It’s one message for MAGA-land and the opposite one for Jill Stein voters. And they just might get away with it.
April 6, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump Is Accidentally Exposing Aileen Cannon’s Shady Pro-MAGA Game
Even as the judge’s latest moves show she’s carefully disguising her advocacy for Trump, he is making it clear that he expects her to save him.
April 3, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Rants in Michigan Should Be Covered as a Scandal
The real story here is the way Trump is twisting select crimes to viciously smear undocumented immigrants across the board.
March 30, 2024
Greg Sargent
MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse
If they can try to turn the tragic Baltimore bridge collapse into a culture war, they’ll go anywhere—hurting their own people in the process.
March 26, 2024
Greg Sargent
RFK Jr.’s Running Mate Is Young and Very Rich. That Worries Dems.
No one’s heard of Nicole Shanahan, and few voters may hear a word she says. But her money is likely to do a whole lot of talking.
March 22, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Latest Rage-Rant Reveals a Major Political Weakness
His eruption over President Biden’s attacks exposes one of the biggest vulnerabilities in his 2024 campaign.
March 21, 2024
Greg Sargent
Elon Musk Pushes a Vile, Toxic Hate Video—and Exposes His Own Scam
The great replacement theory video that Musk pinned to the top of his feed is sick. And it shows that he’s turning X into a safe space for far-right propaganda.

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