Isaac Saul
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And the Trump family's profiting from it, which it's crazy.
Yeah, it's one of those situations that, you know, for me personally, you kind of just gravitate towards the Occam's razor.
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.
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.
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.
And Democrats notoriously are not a very good minority party.
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.
So Democrats are kind of scrambling and I think not doing a good job of making these stories salient for the public.
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.
But they won't do it.
It's crazy.
It's insane.
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.
representative because he purportedly doesn't actually have a job with the U.S.
government, though he's also the special envoy for peace or whatever.
And he's negotiating an end to this war that is not ending forever.
As our chief representative, and we don't have any visibility into any of that.
He doesn't answer any questions.
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.
It's pretty remarkable the situation that we find ourselves in.