Fired for Telling the Truth | Trump's 8,000-Worker Purge — June 5, 2026
6/5/202613 min
Adam Kinzinger breaks down Trump's new executive order stripping civil service protections from 8,000 senior federal workers. Plus: a new Lawfare study finds at least 97 pardoned January 6 defendants have been arrested or charged with new crimes, the flesh-eating screwworm reaches Texas for the first time since 1966, the Senate's all-nighter fails to kill the $1.8 billion "weaponization" slush fund as Bill Cassidy casts the deciding no vote, and Trump tells new spy chief Bill Pulte to chase "rigged elections" with the intelligence community.
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First 90 secondsAdam Kinzinger· Host0:00
[gentle music] Well, hey, everybody. Good to be with you. Welcome back. Good to be home. So today we start at the White House, where Donald Trump signed an order stripping job protection from eight thousand senior civil servants. These are the people who run the programs, write the rules, manage your money, and as of this week, every one of them now serves at the president's pleasure. We'll also get into a new report showing that pardoned January Sixers keep getting arrested for new crimes. Who'd have guessed? A flesh-eating parasite has reached Texas, uh, I hope it's not here, after the Trump administration failed to stop it. The senators all-nighters fa- that failed to kill Trump's slush fund once and for all, and an update on Trump's new spy chief who was hired to do one thing: find rigged elections. The spy chief. Quick reminder before we start, please like, share, subscribe, support this work, because it's people like you that keep it going. So let's get to it. So we start at the White House, where the president just made it possible to fire eight thousand senior civil servants for any reason at all. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order. Mo- remember when Republicans used to be