Eric Lipton
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759 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5 Aug
Eric Lipton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One after another, every single one of them that I spoke with, the word out of their mouth was unprecedented, unprecedented.
There's never been a president in the history of the United States that has made this much money while in the White House.
And none of them could come up with any parallels except looking at other places around the world.
authoritarian-styled places where there's a mixing of your job as a government official and the wealth of that country.
Yes.
I mean, there are parts of the world where it's normal for the royal family to both be running the government and be enriched by the government.
I think particularly of some of the Middle East nations, like the royal families in Saudi Arabia or in the United Arab Emirates, where there is no line.
They are the government and they are the financial beneficiaries of the government.
The same thing in Turkey, where Erdogan has appointed members of his family to be the finance minister, and they also own business operations.
Or in Russia, where Putin and the various oligarchs are all benefiting from their access to the power.
This is a tradition that isn't seen in the United States, but Trump has put us into a whole new category where wealth is coming into the White House, in part because of the policy decisions that he's making.
Yeah, the single biggest chunk of it comes from cryptocurrency, $1.4 billion.
This is a sector that the Trump family had never been in prior to 2025, that it was only really during Trump's reelection campaign that he came to be kind of a crypto enthusiast.
He had been a skeptic of crypto prior to that.
And then suddenly he's back in office and they are going gangbusters to try to make money off of crypto.
That's right.
And so they were simultaneously making enormous loads of money while the president was appointing a head of the Securities and Exchange Commission that was setting regulations that allowed their businesses to do some risky practices that would not have been possible during the prior presidency.
What we've found is that the Trump sons are being very creative in searching for ways to make money and all different kinds of sectors that they're moving into that align with the president's agenda.
And one in particular that has really been fascinating to deconstruct is their enthusiasm for getting into critical minerals.
Yes, metals, basically.
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