Jack Goldsmith
speaker
462 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Jack Goldsmith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And the American people should know whether its policies are being distorted so that the Trump administration can make a lot of money.
As I understand it, the Biden administration was wary about giving...
high level chips, Nvidia chips, I believe, to the UAE for fear of their relationship with China, that this might be a way for Nvidia chips to be either transferred to China or that they would be used to build facilities that would aid China.
I believe that was concerned during the Biden administration.
And obviously we don't know why the Trump administration changed the policy, but that policy was changed and they were given the chips.
And this happened, I wouldn't say in connection with, but in the same general timeframe as the Trump administration was receiving lots of money from entities associated with senior officials in the UAE.
So that just screams for the American people to understand what was going on.
The president's pockets are being lined.
There's a major policy change where national security is at stake.
Maybe there was a genuine reason to shift the policy, but it at least raises suspicions and it needs to be investigated if that's what you're asking.
Not only is the export of the chips a major national security issue, we're involved in a very significant war throughout the Middle East.
The president, as you say, is the commander-in-chief with basically almost limitless discretion on how to act.
And this is precisely the concern.
This is like a core concern of the emoluments clause.
The worry was that foreign governments would be giving the president or another official an emolument in a way that would distort the national interest.
And we don't know.
I don't know if the policy in Iran right now has been distorted because of these relationships.
It would be
It would be hard to imagine that it wouldn't impact them.
But this is another way of getting at the concern that the emoluments clause seeks to get to.
Showing 81–100 of 462 · page 5 of 24
← Previous
Next →