Chris Spyrou

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12,756 appearances 107 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Chris Spyrou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 107 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 30.

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And it stayed a secret for a month until the Washington Post blew it open just last week. voice-verified

Then, within days, came an announcement from White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt that she would be resigning. voice-verified

So the internet thought it would connect the dots. voice-verified

She'd been left on the decoy, realized how expendable she was, and wore voice-verified

Great story. voice-verified

One problem though. voice-verified

She wasn't on the plane, she wasn't even on the trip. voice-verified

She was still on maternity leave. voice-verified

But her resignation is real, and she's now the fifth high-profile woman to walk or get booted out of Trump's second-term White House. voice-verified

And as fast as the old faces leave, new ones walk in. voice-verified

Just days ago, Trump's own personal lawyer was sworn in to run the Justice Department. voice-verified

So now that we're barely three months out from the first real test of Trump's second term. voice-verified

The midterms, what will US voters make of all this reshuffling? voice-verified

Is it another example of Trump tightening the circle around him? voice-verified

And is that necessarily a bad thing when shuffling the deck and rewarding loyalists is something that every president does? voice-verified

To dig in, I'm joined by Associate Professor at the US Studies Center at the University of Sydney, David Smith. voice-verified

David, welcome back to the briefing. voice-verified

I want to start with the detail voice-verified

Koi plane, it's pretty routine for a president to be moved off and onto another plane amid a security scare, right? voice-verified

You refer to it as an unusually long period for us to find this out. voice-verified

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