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The Week That Was: Why is the GOP so Wimpy When it Comes to Confronting Trump?

February 22, 2025 • Allan Lengel / Deadline Detroit

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests, pr specialist and former Detroit Free Press reporter Darci McConnell, attorneys Bill Seikaly and Joel Sklar, Beverly Watts, president of BME consulting and former director of Wayne County Public Service Department, labor and community activist Barb Ingalls and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel.

They talk about President Zelensky rejecting President Trump's proposal for half its mineral resources; Trump's tariffs. Trump's cuts of federal worker; the wimpy GOP fearful of standing up to Trump; Trump posts that no laws are Broken if he’s “saving” the country; Louisiana Health Department to stop mass vaccination; Schmuck of the Week.