Anand Giridharadas

And again, Republicans, Democrats, all kinds of people.

And they were consistent.

Exactly.

One has to assume that at a technical level, everyone there knew different facts and different amounts of things.

And yet, if you were to read them as a text together...

and it's a book, there's like a cloud of common sense about who this guy is.

That's what's so interesting, right?

It's contained in that.

And maybe it is a coincidence that they all talk about him and women.

Maybe he was equally interested in classical music and they all just forgot to mention it.

Maybe when Donald Trump talks about enigmas never aging...

Maybe it had nothing to do with the age of girls.

Maybe.

Could be.

I don't believe that, but sure, possible.

You have to really strain yourself to argue that the people around him in these financial, political, legal, academic, and other institutions...

shouldn't have known better than to consort with and enable him.

And fast forward to years later, when he's convicted in 2008.

And then after that time, he comes back and tries to rehabilitate himself.

And these friends, who if they had access to Google, as you and I did in 2009, had reason to know who he was.