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Isaac Saul

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
518 total appearances

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

Trump has talked about this on the record.

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

I mean, he gave an interview to the New York times where he just said straight up, we tried to separate the businesses during the first term and nobody cared that we did.

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

So I'm not even trying now.

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

I mean, he's, it's not like they're denied.

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

I mean, this was, it was like some of his supporters have sort of denied that the facts of the article I put forward are true.

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

And I'm like, Trump is not denying this.

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

Just to be clear, the president saying that they tried, nobody cared.

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

So now they're not

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

They're not trying.

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

They're just doing whatever they want.

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

So it's not even a reasonable ground to stand on and say like, oh, these are all concocted scandals.

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

It's like the president is saying overtly that they're just guardrails off because they tried the first term and nobody gave them any credit for it.

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

Yeah.

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

The thing I didn't mention in the piece actually about the Trump mobile stuff, and actually I wish I had mentioned it to Sagar when I was on Breaking Points, is that the phone launched in June of 2025.

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

This custom gold T1 phone that was supposed to ship in August, but the people who placed a hundred dollar preorder, they haven't, they never got their phone.

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

And yeah, this USA Today article was from April.

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

So it was a month ago, but the company's last social media post was on August 27th.

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

So on April 6th, you know, months after they had sold all these plans and sold all these phones, the Trump organization filed this trademark application for a mobile phone plan service, the 47 plan.

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

And it's, you know, after the Verge reported that the FCC certified this smartphone under the trade name T1 in January.

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

So it's like