Katrina Perry
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jun
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OK, so there's a lot in this question. We probably need a whole two hours to go through everything that Donald Trump has done so far. But just on the issue of the FBI and the CIA, obviously, we saw the former FBI director, Christopher Wray, resign before Donald Trump took office. Basically, Donald Trump had said he would fire him if he didn't.
We've seen the Department of Justice workers who were involved in the investigation say into those federal charges against Donald Trump in terms of election interference, working with Jack Smith. They've been let go. We've also seen the inspector generals fired as well.
They are supposedly independent officers who are established under the Inspector General Act of 1978, and they're independent and objective units themselves. who basically make sure that each federal agency sticks to their mission. So they've all been fired and the expectation is that they'll be replaced by individuals who are loyal to President Trump. So it's a sort of watch this space on that.
When you're talking about deep state as a term, obviously that's quite a subjective viewpoint, but it is something that we had heard Donald Trump talk a lot about on the campaign trail.
Just on eggs as well, there is a secondary issue there, which is that avian flu has been detected in parts of the US. So actually a huge number of chickens and hens and poultry have been slaughtered because of that. So there is, in actual fact, a shortage of eggs. I just even know myself, Gary, I'm sure you're the same, going to the supermarket in recent weeks, sometimes there are no eggs on the
at all and it used to be the case that they were there but they were extremely expensive sometimes $10 for a dozen eggs but now you just can't get eggs at all often.
Indeed, President Trump signed four executive orders which were focused on reshaping the US military. One of them was about developing an American Iron Dome, similar to the one used by Israel in the Middle East. But in terms of the ones that relate to gender, as the questioner has asked, they're
He signed one banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the military, so-called DEI, and he's done similar things in other federal agencies over the past week. So that basically removes the use of race or sex-based preferences in the armed forces, something there'd been much debate over for a couple of years now, really, in terms of the US military and the debate around
comes up around readiness of the armed forces and capabilities and so on. Another executive order that he signed tasks officials in the military with coming up with a policy on transgender troops. Now, the action doesn't immediately ban transgender service members, which was something that President Trump did in his first term.
But there's a lot of detail not in these executive orders as there are with many of President Trump's executive orders where he's ordering reviews or he's passing it back down to the agency or the department to kind of figure out as to how they'll be implemented. So in terms of transgender service members, there are 14,000 active military transgender service members at the moment.
It's about 0.8% of the entire force. So it's unclear whether this order would mean they can no longer be in certain jobs in the military, whether they have to be discharged totally. So as you can imagine, this is causing a lot of upset.
Well, I would just say, first of all, that President Trump and his supporters do not see these moves as dismantling civil rights. They actually argue that it's a restoration of civil rights, that they say false equivalencies have been created by these DEI policies and issues.
If you read some of the executive orders, that's the language that's in there, that this is about restoring civil rights and restoring what he calls a meritocracy. I do think on the second part of that question, when Federico asks, you know, could this sort of spread into other countries as well.
I think there is a risk in that because whatever the United States does is often copied in other countries. And in particular, a lot of these big private sector companies, big multinationals obviously have operations in many other countries as well. And they tend to have broad sweeping policies that stretch across right around the world.
But again, there's not a lot of detail in some of these executive orders as to whether some of the instructions from President Trump will result in the removal of people from office and what that means for their salary, what that means for their employment rights.
And we've seen it come into force straight away with the couple of thousand Afghan refugees who had appointments, who had flights booked, who were ready to travel to the US. These are people who had helped out the US military in Afghanistan, many of whom their lives were now at risk under Taliban rule for having done that.
And they're now in limbo, essentially, with these executive orders that President Trump has signed. So There is concern in many quarters about the fate of those individuals and for anyone coming behind them and this is something that came into force immediately and there is great concern in the NGO sector as well as to whether these agencies and these programmes will be stood up again.
These are pauses again subject to review that President Trump has ordered. but it's unclear as to what will happen beyond that.
And I think we've seen that already even before Donald Trump assumed office for the And credit has been given to him for that intervention from President Biden, amongst others, that it sort of took that different type of speech and different type of approach to get that deal over the line.
And, you know, to build on Gary's point there, he does use threats as a way of getting things for America, as is his right as the American president. All countries are essentially equal. self-interested. That's what they do. The question is, too, how much President Trump is concerned. Is it America first and the rest of the world second or America first?
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