Elliot Brown
speaker
50 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Jul
Elliot Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so that's been a huge point of scrutiny for Democrats, for other critics outside the government, as it's the brother of a president of a foreign entity directly enriching the president.
The UAE cast it as, you know, the culmination of decades of cooperation and then also, you know, sort of increased partnership on AI.
There had been a lot of concerns early on about the UAE's ties to China.
That's largely why they were restricted from
buying chips earlier.
I think a lot of those concerns have been quelled.
The UAE has put in a lot of measures that have satisfied a number of prior China hawks, but there are still a fair amount of folks who are concerned that China could get access to these chips because the UAE is such a large trading partner.
And finally... Hey Meta, take a picture.
The president has a total foreign policy priority in the Gulf.
And at the same time, you have the very countries that he's talking with on the foreign policy side giving him enormous amounts of money.
I mean, it's unprecedented to have a president sort of still atop a business where you can tell what all the assets are.
Usually they just put it in a blind trust where they don't know what's going on.
And with Trump, his business is being run by his sons, but he gets the wealth from it.
The White House has been quite explicit that the president has never engaged or will ever engage in conflicts of interest.
But the challenge from an ethics perspective is he knows where the money is coming from.
The worry is that that clouds his policy judgment.
It's very difficult to separate these things.
Stephen, our colleague Elliot Brown, as well as others, have been documenting for years now that Saudi Arabia has been giving a haircut to some of its big construction projects.
That includes the line, that 105-mile-long building that it had hoped to build through the desert.
What's changing more recently?
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