Sydney Swans under investigation + Trump’s mouthpiece has quit. What now?

Tuesday Headlines:

Sydney Swans footballers involved in 'alleged incident' in Melbourne hotel
Pauline Hanson’s plan for $21 cigarette packets
American actress Hayden Panettiere has died at the age of 36
Coles and Woolworths test facial recognition technology to combat crime
Ten Aussie YouTubers added to the National Film and Sound Archive

Deep Dive: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is on her way out, marking the fifth high-profile woman gone from Donald Trump's second administration, though how they went varies.

Her announcement landed days after news broke that Trump had been secretly moved off Air Force One leaving a NATO summit, fuelling an online theory that Leavitt walked after being stranded on a decoy plane.

She wasn't even on the plane, or the trip - she was on maternity leave.

In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou is joined by David Smith, Associate Professor at the United States Studies Centre at USYD to unpack why the theory took off - what it says about how Trump really runs the place, and whether any of this churn at the top actually reaches the voters who'll decide the midterms.

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