Jonathan Swan
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52 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Jonathan Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's this very unusual situation where you have the housing the the man who should be running Freddie Ma uh uh Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, very serious job, important job, um, handing him memes for his truth social and reinforcing and and also being a hatchet man.
But the the role of Chief of Staff doesn't actually exist for Donald Trump.
He's never like in the ways that we understand.
You could have James Baker in that role.
It will end up the same way.
You've had like five different models of it now.
John Kelly.
But what do they do then, I guess?
What do they do all day?
They're a staffer, they can manage what they can manage, but Donald Trump himself is going to run this the way he wants.
And no, they absolutely don't have the power to fire people like Bill Poulty or
Natalie Harper because if Trump wants them there, he's the President of the United States.
He goes to Trump's golf clubs and he brings these foam boards and tr it's like they often end up being Trump will truth a lot of the stuff you see on his truth social on the weekends that's right in particular i is is sort of Bill Poulty's uh often his his handiwork.
Talk to us about how we've never seen a president use the levers of government for his own personal agenda to carry out revenge.
So, Watergate happens.
And after Watergate, there is a societal decision that we need to put in some reforms and that as a matter of prudence, not as a matter of law, it makes sense that the Justice Department operates independently from the White House when it comes to investigations.
And again,
What these guys will say is, well, the Constitution says they vote for the president.
Of course, that's technically true.
As a matter of prudence and as a matter of the country, do you really want the president of the United States saying, that guy, that guy that I hate, I want you to investigate him?
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