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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The fees are really high.
We're taking on all this risk.
And MBS, you know, who at that point had become quite close to Jared, and I think owed Jared quite a debt.
Says, I'm overruling you.
I'm the crown prince.
We're going to do this.
pledges $2 billion to affinity partners.
And then Qatar and the United Arab Emirates each pitch in, I think, $200 million.
And then on from there, they all kind of pitched in more money as time went on.
But it does raise the question, why on earth did they do this?
And Robert Garcia is a congressman from California, and he was on the floor of the House of Representatives.
And that's all he said.
He said, why did Saudi Arabia decide to pitch in $2 billion to Jared Kushner for his private equity fund, even though he had no experience running one?
Well, I think the best I could come up with, and it makes sense to me, is they were making an investment.
It's just an investment of a different sort.
So they look at somebody like Jared.
He's young.
He's going to be around for a long time.
He's
He's influential.
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