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Greg Sargent Profile picture
@GregTSargent
Jun 14, 2024 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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An important development: Trump's criminality is becoming a genuine wedge issue against Republicans.

Don't be fooled by GOP's outward shows of unity behind Dear Leader. The cracks in the facade are very clear.

Here's some evidence. 1/

(Link to piece)
newrepublic.com/article/182728…
People overlooked this. But when Rep Mike Simpson, a very senior GOPer, told @playbookdc that he opposes defunding Jack Smith, he also directly undermined the entire Trump/GOP argument that the prosecutions are the illegitimate work of the Deep State. 2/

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This is a big deal. A top GOPer essentially admitted Jack Smith is operating within his legit institutional role. As Jamie Raskin told me:

"Mike Simpson just destroyed MAGA-world’s argument that Trump’s prosecution...is fraudulent or in bad faith." 3/

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More from Jamie Raskin on Rep Mike Simpson opposing the defunding of Jack Smith:

“Other Republicans should follow Simpson and stop demonizing the justice system and the rule of law."

This is how Trump’s criming is becoming a wedge against the GOP. 4/

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More evidence that Trump's criminality is becoming a wedge: Vulnerable House Republicans are balking at voting for all the craven things Mike Johnson is offering to shield Trump from the law.

This has happened numerous times now. Evidence below. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/182728…

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Trump's ritual humiliation of Rs like McConnell on the Hill is all about forcing them to *act as if* the politics of Trump's criming favors the GOP/isn't an issue.

This is spin. The real tell is vulnerable Rs not wanting to vote for shielding Trump. 6/

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Trump is forcing Rs to repeatedly vote on protecting him from the law. That's bad for Rs, full stop.

GOP pretending his criming is a winner is psyops. As I try to show, Ds now get this.

(h/t @brianbeutler @joshtpm for making versions of this point) 7/

newrepublic.com/article/182728…

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A link to the full argument at @newrepublic is below. 8/8
newrepublic.com/article/182728…
Related and key from @brianbeutler: Dems have an opening to drive a wedge between Trump and the corporate class. The story is that this class has capitulated. But that doesn't *have* to remain true, just as GOP submission to Trump is only half the story.
offmessage.net/p/the-gops-fin…
Also watch @SimonWDC on Trump/GOP:

"MAGA has been a failed politics. They're doubling down on a politics that keeps losing."

Dominance/submission rituals are about papering this over. But vulnerable Rs are balking at voting to protect Trump right now.

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Jul 3
For 50 years GOP has used 3 big scams:

*deficits pose dire threat only when Dem is in WH
*tax cuts for rich pay for themselves
*safety net cuts needed to purge welfare cheats

w/this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/197600…
You've heard of the GOP's "Three-Legged Stool."

Well I'm introducing the "Three-Legged Scam" to describe the three-part swindle the GOP has used to push plutocratic priorities for a half century.

Populist Trump has maximized all three of them.

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To see what a betrayal this is, recall that Trumpism was supposed to break with Reaganomics. It was supposedly a challenge to elites rigging the economy in their favor w/o it ever "trickling down" to working class. This bill is elite rigging maximized.

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Jun 18
We keep hearing credulous pundits say MAGA is "antiwar." So how many MAGA Republicans will support the new resolution requiring Trump to get congressional authorization for war with Iran?

This resolution is important. Pay attention to it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/196919…
In 2024, Trump slammed Kamala for campaigning with Liz Cheney, claiming she wants “war with every Muslim country known to mankind.” This was always a scam, and now it looks like Trump is rushing into war with Iran. This has deeply split MAGA. 2/

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"Antiwar" MAGA Republicans have the option of backing this new resolution from Thomas Massie (R) and Ro Khanna (D) requiring congressional authorization for war with Iran.

“It’s a test of whether the MAGA movement is really antiwar,” Khanna tells me. 3/

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Jun 13
Remarkable: Vulnerable House Republicans are quietly urging Trump to refocus deportations away from noncriminal migrants and only target criminals.

With Trump admitted deportations hurt farmers, Rs know this is becoming a big problem for them. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/196817…
Six House Rs, many from vulnerable districts, sent a letter to ICE explicitly saying deporting non-criminals makes us less safe.

Strikingly, it undercuts Trump's rationale for mass deportations and reveals deep political vulnerability on the issue. 2/

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House Rs are urging a focus only on criminals AT THE EXACT MOMENT that Stephen Miller is ordering ICE to scour Home Depot parking lots for noncriminals to pad the numbers. Miller is *choosing* to divert resources away from dangerous criminals. 3/

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Jun 11
Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinarily dangerous this moment truly is. 1/

(link)
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Over the last few days, Trump has goaded servicemembers into booing a sitting Dem governor, called for his arrest, needlessly sent troops into an American city, and spewed wildly absurd lies about that city. This shows political weakness, not strength. 2/

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We just learned that two-bit fascist Stephen Miller told ICE officials to raid Home Depot parking lots for more people to deport. To boost removal numbers, Trump and Miller are diverting resources away from serious crimes like child exploitation. 3/

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Jun 5
Stephen Miller is in a rage over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown.

If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/196154…
Miller recently erupted at ICE officials, demanding 3,000 deportations a day. He's now redeploying thousands of agents from other agencies like Homeland Security Investigations, FBI, and DEA.

This is already hampering other crime-fighting, per NBC. 2/

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“Shifting that number of law enforcement agents from those types of agencies inevitably will mean fewer resources fighting transnational criminal organizations, drug smuggling, counter-terrorism, and child exploitation,” a former ICE official tells me. 3/

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May 23
Unreal: To sustain his "genocide" of "white farmers" lie while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/195699…
First, note that the printout Trump used to humiliate Ramaphosa came from a conservative blog post, which used an image from a Reuters video about DRC. Perhaps an aide Googled "white farmers" and "South Africa," found this, and gave it to Trump. 2/

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But there's something darker here. Even as Trump used this image of the dead from the DRC war to push a fake "genocide," Trump has suspended foreign aid and refugee resettlement in ways that are hurting countless humanitarian victims of that REAL war! 3/

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