"Donald Trump’s stranglehold on American politics is coming to an end. The evidence of his political crisis is all around us. It started long before his ham-handed war with Iran and the resultant spike in gas prices, but recent events have catalyzed his downfall."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Trump #ApprovalRating #Iran #war #ICE #immigration #oil #gas #prices #economy #affordability
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-republican-collapse-has-begun
"G. Elliott Morris has some new data up from his monthly Strength in Numbers poll. It reinforces a point we’ve made here again and again - Trump can longer rally the country behind any of his initiatives. His powers of persuasion have ebbed, and some significant portion of the country - 52% to 58% - is no longer available to him."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #ApprovalRating #Iran #war #ICE #immigration #oil #gas #prices #economy #affordability
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/more-encouraging-dem-wins-trumps
Proud that Congressional Dems are holding the line on reining in ICE
"The Trump administration is fighting public opinion on two fronts this week. First, our new poll finds a majority of adults blame the president and Senate Republicans for the current chaos at U.S. airports, and Americans oppose sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to help the Transportation Security Administration."
~ G. Elliott Morris
#Trump #ApprovalRating #Iran #war #ICE #immigration #oil #gas #prices #economy #affordability
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https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-26-flash-poll-ice-airports-iran-troops
"Voters also disapprove of the president publicly refusing an offer from Senate Republicans to fund the non-ICE agencies in the Department of Homeland Security, including the TSA.
Second, the public also broadly opposes a possible escalation of the war against Iran that would put boots on the ground in the country. Voters want the U.S. to pursue ceasefire negotiations and an end to the conflict."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #Iran #war #ICE #immigration #oil #gas #prices #economy #affordability
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Robert B. Hubbell discusses "the trifecta of corruption" emanating from the Trump administration we learned about on Wednesday:
First, there's Trump stealing federal documents with national security implications so sensitive that only six people were allowed to see them — all to benefit his faltering businesses.
#Trump #corruption #NationalSecurity #crime
/5
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/stark-reminders-of-trumps-corruption
Then there's Trump's Pam Bondi-led DOJ paying former General Michael Flynn $1.2 million to settle his case against the government for selective prosecution arising out of lies he admitted telling the FBI, in which he denied contacts with Russian officials before Trump was inaugurated.
#Trump #corruption #NationalSecurity #crime #PamBondi #DOJ #MichaelFlynn #Russia
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Finally, there are press reports highlighing a memo released in the DOJ production of Epstein files which alleges that a large volume of documents was shredded by the team charged with investigating Epstein’s alleged suicide. Hubbell concludes:
"Trump has dragged the DOJ and the Supreme Court into a deep well of corruption."
#Trump #corruption #NationalSecurity #crime #PamBondi #DOJ #MichaelFlynn #Russia #Epstein
/7
Frank Figliuzzi talks with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse about the now-famous “triangle”: Putin, Epstein, and Trump. As Whitehouse says, "There's this deep, long thread of Epstein and Russia that really helps, I think, connect the three legs of the triangle together."
#Trump #Epstein #Putin #Russia #corruption
/8
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-putin-epstein-and-trump-triangle
Epstein, Putin, & Trump, and Sen. Whitehouse's viral speech.
"No issue more defined Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns and two terms than promises surrounding illegal immigration, and no sentiment more defined the MAGA movement than vitriolic xenophobia. Getting a close look at what that means to most people seems to have repulsed Americans, thereby breaking Republicans’ grip on the issue."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #ApprovalRating #immigrants #ICE #cruelty #xenophobia #racism
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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-blew-it-on-immigration
"An enormous survey of nearly 5500 Americans (with a margin of error of only +/- 1.49%) from PRRI shows the extent of Americans’ distaste for mass deportation.
Trump personally has lost the country. Overall, his approval is at a measly 36 percent (with only 28 percent from independents)."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #immigrants #ICE #cruelty #xenophobia #racism
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"All of this suggests Republicans’ reputation for being ‘tough on immigration’ has become (outside the MAGA cult) ‘scary, chaotic, cruel, and ineffective on immigration.’ That suggests Democrats should not be shy about stepping into the leadership vacuum on a number of fronts."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #immigrants #ICE #cruelty #xenophobia #racism
/11
"In a short court filing on Wednesday, Flynn and the Department of Justice filed a joint notice of settlement in Flynn’s civil case. That’s the one he filed in 2023, where he claimed that he had been maliciously prosecuted and that he expected compensatory damages of at least $50 million."
~ Lisa Needham
"Flynn didn’t get $50 million, but he did just get $1.2 million in taxpayer dollars in this settlement with the government. This isn’t a real settlement, of course, because a settlement in a lawsuit is something hammered out by parties with adverse interests. This is just the DOJ openly siding with Flynn."
"Zach Everson of Public Citizen’s Trump Accountability Project noted that when Trump left office in 2021, his businesses were mainly real estate and hospitality and he had massive amounts of debt coming due. At the time, he had no interests in crypto and Trump Media didn’t exist."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"It’s finally happened: Trump has lost the men. And it’s by a lot.
An aggregate of Marist and Quinnipiac polling by CNN’s Harry Enten shows male voters abandoning Trump in droves. This is terrible news for Trump because he owes his election to those male voters. …
The 13 point spread over Harris that Trump once enjoyed is gone. In its place is a seven point net disapproval of Trump among male voters."
~ Jay Kuo
William Lindsey 
Steve Hersey