The Trump purge: is the FBI’s Kash Patel next?
4/24/202628 min
Three cabinet secretaries have left – or been pushed out – of the US administration since the start of March. Recent reporting suggests more could soon find themselves on the chopping block. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the MS NOW White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López about why Donald Trump is more ruthless in his second term
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[upbeat music] Since the beginning of March, three senior officials have left or been pushed out of the Trump administration. Pam Bondi leaves, Kristi Noem, Lori Chavez-DeRemer. But who's next on the chopping block? I'm Jonathan Freedland, columnist at The Guardian, and this is Politics Weekly: America. Laura Barron-Lopez covers the White House for MS Now News, and Laura, it's terrific to have you with us on the podcast, uh, for the very first time. Now, even before, uh, or rather even since we contacted you to talk about all the people going out the door, there has been another one, um, just overnight. You and I are speaking, uh, on Thursday. Uh, probably not somebody who was a, a high profile or in, in the minds of many politics watchers, but John Phelan, US Navy Secretary, it's a political appointment, uh, left the Trump administration very suddenly with a Pentagon announcement, not really giving much detail, saying it, it, the departure is effective immediately. There are unconfirmed reports in the US media with some argument about shipbuilding, but it just goes to this pattern that pe- that, you know, something of a very, uh, active swinging door out of this