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Isaac Saul

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
518 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

And the Trump family's profiting from it, which it's crazy.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

Yeah, it's one of those situations that, you know, for me personally, you kind of just gravitate towards the Occam's razor.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

And I think, OK, there's definitely a relationship here that's benefiting Saudi Arabia more than it might benefit another regional power in the area.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

And this is where the fealty to Trump from Republicans in Congress comes into play is, you know, for all the ways that Congress can be ineffective.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

One of the things that Congress is actually pretty good at and has power to do is request documents, subpoena people, make people testify publicly, make people answer questions about the decision making process, how certain things came down.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

And Democrats notoriously are not a very good minority party.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

Republicans are much better at being a minority party that sort of forces concessions and forces these kinds of hearings and brings these things to the public's attention.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

So Democrats are kind of scrambling and I think not doing a good job of making these stories salient for the public.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

But it would just take a few Republicans to stand up and say, I have some questions about this, and I'd like to bring Jared Kushner before Congress to hear him answer some questions about it.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

But they won't do it.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

It's crazy.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

It's insane.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

who is the son-in-law of the president, operating multi-billion dollar funds with investments from a country, leaders of a country that he is at the negotiating table with as a non-U.S.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

representative because he purportedly doesn't actually have a job with the U.S.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

government, though he's also the special envoy for peace or whatever.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

And he's negotiating an end to this war that is not ending forever.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

As our chief representative, and we don't have any visibility into any of that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

He doesn't answer any questions.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

He doesn't, you know, he doesn't answer anybody's requests except the president's apparently, and maybe he's not even doing that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office

It's pretty remarkable the situation that we find ourselves in.