Dexter Filkins
speaker
521 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Dexter Filkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He does the Abraham Accords and becomes very close to MBS and the other monarchies in the Gulf.
January 2021 comes, he leaves office, turns right back around and goes to the same leaders and raises several billion dollars.
For his new private equity fund.
And as you say, he didn't have any experience in running a private equity fund.
So it's called Affinity Partners.
And I think at the moment it has several billion, more than $6 billion in it.
So what happens, and again, it's a fascinating story.
Jared goes back out.
goes to the same people, goes to MBS, goes to the leaders of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, all the people he'd been dealing with when he was in the White House, basically with his hat out and saying, like, I'm starting a private equity fund.
Can I have some money?
In the case of Saudi, billions of dollars.
And they chip in.
They say, yeah, sure.
And there's a moment when Jared goes to Saudi Arabia and, again, with his hat out, saying, like, I want some money.
And the group of advisors that run the public investment fund, as it's called in Saudi Arabia, the PIF, it's enormous.
It's just hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars.
It's all the oil money.
And they basically said, no, like, this is a bad idea.
Don't do it.
This guy doesn't have any experience.
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