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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 32 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 5.

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

Yeah, but in a world without shame—and I'll tell you the other things happening— voice-verified

to be self-critical of like, you know, our party and is it, there's a lot of this stuff at smaller scale. voice-verified

You know, there's a lot of people that serve in government and then they kind of, they start a fund in the Gulf or they, you know, voice-verified

Um, they get on a board that like is selling a lot of things to the Gulf and the kind of wink wink is it, Oh, those people are probably going to go back into the U S government at some point. voice-verified

So we're going to invest in them. voice-verified

Like all this, we have to enter a period of like radical anti-corruption and transparency after this to cleanse ourselves. voice-verified

Cause Jared is like the most extreme and damaging version of it, but there's more of it underneath the surface too. voice-verified

And like, voice-verified

this should be a priority for the, I mean, if you want to restore public confidence in the government, because people know this intuitively, like you don't need to like follow foreign policy to kind of feel like everything's for sale. voice-verified

Which is like their own territory where voice-verified

currently control. voice-verified

mean, first of all, voice-verified

I can't imagine the Russians aren't aware of who's on these trains. voice-verified

They have a pretty good intelligence service. voice-verified

They're clearly monitoring this. voice-verified

So whether this was a warning shot, whether it was even worse, like they tried something and missed, I just think we have to understand that this is going to continue to escalate as things go on, as Ukrainians get more aggressive inside of Russia. voice-verified

And the fact that Kushner... voice-verified

is like, oh yeah, well, we'd have this solved if the Ukrainians just surrendered. voice-verified

That's his response to this, is like, tells you what kind of message does that send to Putin about what the response would be if like a bunch of European national security advisors or VIPs get blown up on a train. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

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