27 FEB 2025: Trump’s Target Practice - Top Five White House Targets for Reforms // Global Updates: UK and Chagos, Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he breaks down today’s biggest stories shaping America and the world.
Trump’s Cabinet Meeting Targets Waste, Fraud, and Failures – A major shake-up begins as the White House aims at five big issues: military leadership, green energy, federal workforce cuts, foreign aid, and more.
U.S. Generals on the Chopping Block – Trump demands the removal of generals tied to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal and wants answers about $7 billion in abandoned military equipment.
$20 Billion in Green Energy Funds Under Investigation – The Trump administration probes a massive Biden-era climate fund parked at Citibank, suspecting fraud and political kickbacks.
The End of Wind Energy? – Wind turbine projects are shutting down, tax credits are under fire, and offshore wind expansion grinds to a halt under Trump’s policies.
Major Federal Workforce Cuts Announced – The White House orders deeper reductions, including layoffs at the EPA, Social Security Administration, and FBI.
Trump Blocks Foreign Aid Despite Court Order – A Biden-appointed judge demands USAID funding continue, but the White House refuses, escalating a major legal showdown.
UK Prime Minister Starmer Meets Trump – The British leader arrives in Washington seeking support for Ukraine, European peacekeepers, and a controversial Indian Ocean military base deal.
Zelenskyy Agrees to U.S. Mineral Deal – The Ukrainian president heads to Washington to sign an agreement handing over 50% of Ukraine’s mineral revenue in exchange for U.S. financial support.
Iran Races Toward Nuclear Weapons – Reports confirm Tehran is accelerating uranium enrichment while scrambling to rebuild its air defenses after Israeli strikes.
Trump Ends Chevron’s Venezuela Oil Deal – The administration shuts down Biden-era oil agreements with the Maduro regime, increasing pressure on the dictatorship.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
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| 0:00.0 | It's February 27th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.5 | A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | I've got two big briefs for you this morning that are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:27.7 | First up, it is a morning of targets as the White House is setting up a knocking down targets of all kinds. |
| 0:34.1 | From U.S. generals to wind turbines to foreign aid. That news of targeting is coming up. |
| 0:39.9 | Second, the U.K. Prime Minister will be at the White House today, begging President Trump for three |
| 0:44.8 | things. We'll cover what those are, along with a lot of other global news from Iran, Venezuela, |
| 0:50.1 | and a really great set of listener questions today about how much money exactly we have really given to Ukraine. |
| 0:57.0 | That is going to be important as President Zelensky is set to travel to meet with President Trump probably on Friday. |
| 1:03.7 | But before we get to that set of great listener questions, let's get to our top stories of the morning. |
| 1:09.0 | It is a day of target practice in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:12.9 | President Trump and his cabinet are setting up and knocking down targets of all kinds, |
| 1:17.5 | waste, fraud, abuse, inefficiencies. |
| 1:20.1 | With five examples this morning laid out for us actually at yesterday's cabinet meeting, |
| 1:25.2 | the first cabinet meeting, actually, of the new administration. |
| 1:28.3 | So let us begin with target number one that was talked about yesterday at the cabinet at the |
| 1:33.2 | White House. It's the Pentagon. President Trump says he wants a bunch of generals fired. And soon, |
| 1:39.7 | the president said yesterday that every single general that was involved in the Afghanistan |
| 1:43.6 | withdrawal under Joe Biden, |
| 1:45.6 | all of them need to be kicked out. As the Hill is reporting, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth replied |
| 1:51.3 | that the Pentagon is doing everything it can to get to that point that the president wants. |
| 1:55.9 | The Pentagon is doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened during that deadly and chaotic |
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