Swamp Notes: Donald Trump’s ‘vendetta agenda’
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has made a lot of enemies over the years. He spent his first week back in the White House going after them — and is reshaping the federal government in the process. The FT’s Washington bureau chief James Politi and US legal and enforcement correspondent Stefania Palma join this week’s Swamp Notes to explain what the president’s first week signals about his plans for the next four years.
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| 0:31.0 | U.S. President Donald Trump has a long enemies list, military officers, law enforcement agents, and anyone else in the so-called |
| 0:40.8 | deep state. He spent the first week of his term going after them and reshaping the federal |
| 0:46.9 | government in the process. This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing, where we talk about all of the things happening in U.S. politics. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm Sonia Hudson. |
| 1:02.5 | And this week we're asking, how far will Donald Trump take his vendetta agenda? |
| 1:08.0 | Here with me to discuss is James Pallidi. |
| 1:10.8 | He's the FTs Washington Bureau Chief. |
| 1:13.0 | Hi, James. Hi, Sonia. And we've also got Stefania Palma, the FTs U.S. legal and enforcement |
| 1:18.8 | correspondent. Hi, Stefania. Hi. So James, Trump really hit the ground running from day one with |
| 1:27.1 | a whole flurry of executive orders. |
| 1:30.4 | And one of those opening moves was to strip several former officials of secret service protection. |
| 1:38.9 | What's going on here? |
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