Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. On this, the holiest week in the Christian calendar, Donald Trump's spiritual advisor compared Trump to Jesus Christ. And that was only one thing that happened this week. He went on to give that very sort of slurry, low energy speech, which suggested that Donald Trump may know how to start a war,

but he's very, very unclear about how to end it. And of course, on the same day, we now learn,

the great Trump purge began, the firing of Pam Bondi. But that is only one aspect of the

purges that may be rippling through the Trump administration.

There are purges ongoing in the Pentagon, and there are reports of other cabinet members who might be

on the bubble. So let's talk about an unusually deplorable week.

And who better to talk about all of this with than our good friend David French?

I apologize, David, that we just don't have anything to talk about this week.

I mean, nothing very interesting happened.

Oh, okay.

Obviously, we want to spend some time talking about the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi,

just a week after the firing of Christy

Nome, all of the things that are going on, what this means for the Justice Department,

what this means for the campaign of retribution, the Epstein files, all of it. I want to get to that.

But I want to start with what may be even more damaging purge.

What's going on in the Department of Defense where Pete Higgsith continues to lash out at the generals,

he's fired several dozen generals.

This week he fired the top officer in the U.S. Army, the Army Chief of Staff, Randy George,

and there are suggestions that they're about to fire or he's about to quit the Army Secretary,

Driscoll. So give me your sense of what is going on, because this is, I don't know, it just

strikes me as a layperson. This is not the

kind of thing that you would expect to see in a time of war that we're supposedly winning every

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