Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 5d ago

Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Pod Save the World · Don Jr.’s Big Fat Russian Wedding · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

They're not doing it because in the same way that the Saudis don't think that Jared Kushner is a particularly ingenious investor, like that's an investment voice-verified

something. voice-verified

Now, turns out they didn't get the return they wanted. voice-verified

This is an investment, an ongoing investment by the Russians in the Trump family. voice-verified

That leads me to my second point, which is that voice-verified

The U.S. voice-verified

media, mainstream media, whatever you want to call it, did they crank the Russiagate stuff up like way high? voice-verified

They did in the sense that that was like all they covered for a couple of years, right? voice-verified

But Trump is so thoroughly, you know, called this a hoax and kind of made any insinuation of his own contacts public. voice-verified

and potentially compromised nature of his relationship with Russia seems so kind of resistance 1.0 and so kind of Trump derangement syndrome that like people actually don't talk about it that much anymore. voice-verified

And yet it is just like staring you in the face that the Russians have been making like a very long-term investment in Trump and his family. voice-verified

And it makes you wonder, like, what do they want in return for that? voice-verified

And what are they getting in return for that, right? voice-verified

And it's just staring at us. voice-verified

At some point, someone will come back and put this all together and write it up. voice-verified

But the reality is, you know, if... voice-verified

We'll allow ourselves to do this for two times today, which is breaking our rule. voice-verified

If, like, a Russian oligarch was paying for, like, Malia Obama's wedding, you know, in the Bahamas, I think there'd be some questions about that. voice-verified

And meanwhile, this will be, like, a passing story. voice-verified

He may try to inherit the Trump political dynasty. voice-verified

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