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

Like, this is kind of a mini internal coup that took place. voice-verified

And we have a guy literally not only greenlighting that from the White House. voice-verified

Jared was a White House employee at that time, his senior advisor. voice-verified

And then getting millions of dollars on the back end. voice-verified

I mean, this is... voice-verified

This just demonstrates, like, there's been this kind of collapse of investigative journalism as foreign bureaus have closed and as the media has become what it's become. voice-verified

But, man, like, if you just, if you get a good, dogged reporter like Dexter Filkins, what you find is that all this stuff is even worse than, like, you know, like we, you know, surmise. voice-verified

I will add, like, voice-verified

Because people ask all the time what to read. voice-verified

The New Yorker, ProPublica, The Guardian does work like this. voice-verified

Dropsite does it in the Middle East. voice-verified

The people that are still doing investigative journalism are people that do demand your attention because, frankly, if we were living in a different era, we would know more of this stuff. voice-verified

But thankfully, there's still people out there connecting dots. voice-verified

Yeah, voice-verified

because that was the other thing I was going to say, which is if and when the Democrats take back power, like, all this stuff, like, needs to be illegal, you know? voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

Because what's remarkable is it's not. voice-verified

It's grotesque. voice-verified

I think what people used to count on is that, like, politically it would be a killer for the president's son-in-law to, like, collect billions voice-verified

no shame anymore. voice-verified

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