U.S. President Donald Trump reacts in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

Daily Blast podcaster Greg Sargent interviewed Senior Political Reporter Asawin Suebsaeng about President Donald Trump’s recent Truth Social tirade this weekend. In that post, Trump clearly commanded his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to hurry up and prosecute his political enemies.

In that same post, Trump named Democrats he wants prosecuted and even admitted he’d ousted a prosecutor for refusing to get the ball rolling. Rolling Stone reported that Trump’s open demand of his attorney general was so corrupt it surprised some of his own Trump’s advisors, who were floored that he dared to do it publicly.

Even Attorney General Pam Bondi “did not want this guy ousted” Suebsaeng told Sargent on his “Daily Blast” podcast.

“They thought that would be a bad idea, not just because it would be ‘a bad look’ or anything like that, but they thought [the fired prosecutor] was helpful and good at what he was doing. But to the president of the United States, that does not matter,” said Suebsaeng, who works for the Rolling Stone. “… [S]ome of them are starting to say here and there, ‘Okay, maybe we shouldn’t go too far with the authoritarianism and the purgings in this respect or that respect.’”

Suebsaeng added that, unlike during the corrupt Nixon administration, “there’s not even a veneer of intellectual capacity or philosophy here. It’s just stating openly, whether on purpose sometimes and whether accidentally perhaps at other times, that there is no line. There is no imaginary norm or wall that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and JD Vance want to abide by. The Department of Justice is a wholly owned subsidiary of MAGA and Donald Trump’s political whims as long as he is the nominal leader of the free world.”

Additionally, Suebsaeng said he has seen enough private text messages from Trump to suspect the president may have originally intended his controversial weekend Truth Social post to be a private text.

“I have been shown enough private messages that Trump has sent to an assortment of people in recent years to the point where it really drives home the point that yes, this is how this f——idiot texts people in the privacy of his quieter moments,” Suebsaeng said. “They oftentimes do look like tweets or Truth Social posts.”

Sargent expressed doubt that the Truth Social post could serve as a private message, considering it contained all-caps statements like “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!! President DJT.”

“Yeah. And also have rambling bull—— in it,” Suebsaeng confirmed. “… it really made senior officials in the administration, including DOJ, including the White House and elsewhere think to themselves in real time over the weekend, ‘did the president mean to put this on the internet?’”

Hear and read the podcast at this link.