Jack Goldsmith
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 10 Sep
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President AOC or whoever the president is come in and start monetizing the government for her personal benefit.
I just don't think that's going to be high on the agenda.
And because Trump has written it really a unique figure in this regard.
So, but what we're talking about now, weaponizing the government to destroy the infrastructure of your enemies is,
I think it's going to be very hard for the Democrats not to use these tools.
They're going to be huge.
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use them or co-opt them the way Trump has been doing.
I mean, Trump has done an extraordinary job of co-opting these major firms to give him money, give him fealty, to basically keep him off their backs to get the policies he wants from the companies.
And there's just a mirror image of what can happen when the Democrats do that, going after conservative power centers, I think.
And there's going to be an enormous temptation to do that, I think.
this is a fair argument, if I understand it.
This came up most clearly, I thought, when David Sachs, who became the crypto czar early in the Trump administration, and I think also he was in charge of another portfolio.
But it raised the question about, and there were all these questions about conflicts of interest and whether, and he was a special government employee and
And so there had to be the end subject to different types of ethics rules.
And this has been, some Republicans have made this in the past, is that it's a good thing to have members of the private sector in the government.
These are people that know how the world runs and they know how to make money.
And so we can just, we shouldn't worry about the conflict of interest rules so much because they're going to have better government.
And in fact, on this view,
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