Andrew Weissmann

Yeah, a little bit. I don't know. They were chatting it up. Fox News was up on a TV. They were eating some cupcakes and things that somebody had brought in. I don't know. I was more focused on the question and whether or not I was about to get sandbagged, you know? Did you encounter any MAGA creatures? Just junior comm staff, junior people, you know, just...

Friendly, bright, shiny faces of the new right-wing future. Were your palms sweaty?

Friendly, bright, shiny faces of the new right-wing future. Were your palms sweaty?

Friendly, bright, shiny faces of the new right-wing future. Were your palms sweaty?

I wasn't taking a moisture level test or anything, but I was a little freaked out, man. I had no idea. Like I said, they called me. I was like, why are they bringing the bulwark into here? Is there some dark scheme? But it all went fine.

I wasn't taking a moisture level test or anything, but I was a little freaked out, man. I had no idea. Like I said, they called me. I was like, why are they bringing the bulwark into here? Is there some dark scheme? But it all went fine.

I wasn't taking a moisture level test or anything, but I was a little freaked out, man. I had no idea. Like I said, they called me. I was like, why are they bringing the bulwark into here? Is there some dark scheme? But it all went fine.

The through line with all of these stories is just how much of a black box it all is, right? I mean, we know just openly that these are things that Donald Trump profits from. He and his associates own 80% of the supply of this coin. Whenever people put more money into it, it pushes up the price and they make money.

The through line with all of these stories is just how much of a black box it all is, right? I mean, we know just openly that these are things that Donald Trump profits from. He and his associates own 80% of the supply of this coin. Whenever people put more money into it, it pushes up the price and they make money.

The through line with all of these stories is just how much of a black box it all is, right? I mean, we know just openly that these are things that Donald Trump profits from. He and his associates own 80% of the supply of this coin. Whenever people put more money into it, it pushes up the price and they make money.

And beyond that, you know, there's all kinds of opacity based around, you know, we know this because there's been reporting on this, but a lot of the reporting only serves to highlight how completely untraceable and oblique a lot of this is.

And beyond that, you know, there's all kinds of opacity based around, you know, we know this because there's been reporting on this, but a lot of the reporting only serves to highlight how completely untraceable and oblique a lot of this is.

And beyond that, you know, there's all kinds of opacity based around, you know, we know this because there's been reporting on this, but a lot of the reporting only serves to highlight how completely untraceable and oblique a lot of this is.

The only reason that we know, for instance, that like the bulk of the major purchases of this coin have come from overseas is because Bloomberg did an investigation to the trading platforms that those purchases were made on, many of which, you know, bar US users from trading on them. And so based on that, they know that they're not here But that's kind of all the further that we know.

The only reason that we know, for instance, that like the bulk of the major purchases of this coin have come from overseas is because Bloomberg did an investigation to the trading platforms that those purchases were made on, many of which, you know, bar US users from trading on them. And so based on that, they know that they're not here But that's kind of all the further that we know.

The only reason that we know, for instance, that like the bulk of the major purchases of this coin have come from overseas is because Bloomberg did an investigation to the trading platforms that those purchases were made on, many of which, you know, bar US users from trading on them. And so based on that, they know that they're not here But that's kind of all the further that we know.

These wallets are largely anonymous. Your point about the Qatari plane is a good one. I feel like it's a little bit like what we just saw happen with the China tariffs, where the tariffs were at like 10,000% for a month. And so now that they've come back down to only 30, we're all kind of like, oh, thank God, now they're only 30. Right. But 30% tariffs are still kind of alarmingly large.

These wallets are largely anonymous. Your point about the Qatari plane is a good one. I feel like it's a little bit like what we just saw happen with the China tariffs, where the tariffs were at like 10,000% for a month. And so now that they've come back down to only 30, we're all kind of like, oh, thank God, now they're only 30. Right. But 30% tariffs are still kind of alarmingly large.

These wallets are largely anonymous. Your point about the Qatari plane is a good one. I feel like it's a little bit like what we just saw happen with the China tariffs, where the tariffs were at like 10,000% for a month. And so now that they've come back down to only 30, we're all kind of like, oh, thank God, now they're only 30. Right. But 30% tariffs are still kind of alarmingly large.

And like, yeah, the the Qatari plane does does sort of wash out some of these other financial scandals and some of this other open corruption, because a $400 million plane is just one of those kind of eye poppingly large numbers that like, of course, yeah, it's, you know, nothing really holds a candle to that.