In the podcast above, Sarah Jones and Jason Easley talk about the Epstein files and Trump’s power. Please give it a listen.
Donald Trump has ruled the Republican Party for a decade through a culture of threats, fear, and intimidation. It is the same culture with which Trump ran his business.
The Daily is outside the Beltway journalism for the people. Please support us by becoming a subscriber.
When Trump went back on his word to release the Epstein files, he appears to have crossed a line with many of his own supporters, and for the first time, his power over his party is in question, and it looks like his cult of personality is starting to unravel.
Sarah Jones discussed this unraveling in the podcast above by saying:
Donald Trump’s biggest weakness as a politician has always been that he doesn’t build coalitions, right? And so he does not know how to negotiate with people in a way that gives them something, and he gets something.
What he does is he terrorizes people. First, he charms them. If that doesn’t get what he wants, then he starts terrorizing them, threatening them. And then he, in his previous line of work, seemed to operate like a mob boss. He would, but he uses his lawyers as if they were a hitman out in the field, as a legal hitman. I don’t mean that to be literal, but to be people to go after. He uses lawyers as enforcement.
Story continues below.
