Luke Thomas

No foreign government is simply entitled as a matter of right to American weapons at any time, for any purpose.

We have no strings attached.

And it's entirely reasonable for the United States to use the leverage that comes with the provision of armaments to a foreign government to shape that foreign government's conduct, no matter how close an ally they are.

Where a foreign government's conduct is adverse to our interests or contrary to our values, then using that leverage, using that power to advance the interests and values of the American people is not just appropriate, it should be normal.

Yeah, I want to go deeper on the Saudi and Emirati connections because I think this is some of the most blatant and grotesque conflicts of interest and corruption in the history of white houses.

But I also just want to put us on alert that we need to be watching like a hawk as this president engages with Xi Jinping.

Because the message that he and his family and his emissaries have been sending to the whole world is that the personal private business of the first family

and the interests of the United States are in the view of this president linked.

That's the message that the world has gotten.

And we have to be on alert that the Chinese leadership may see opportunities to influence the foreign policy of the United States,

by offering direct or indirect inducements commercially that suit the interests of the Trump organization, the president's businesses, his crypto venture, his son's businesses, his son's now the sprawling business empire.

It didn't suddenly become great entrepreneurs.

It's just that the whole world thinks they can curry favor with the president of the United States by patronizing his family's businesses.

I mean, Jared Kushner,

who had already received through his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, billions of dollars of Saudi investment, very substantial Emirati investment, has been reportedly going around the Middle East asking for billions more.

from princes and shakes in the region, while moonlighting as the special envoy, or whatever they call him, leading the most sensitive American diplomacy.

It's grotesque.

It's absurd.

I think that the American people see it for what it is, and it is another reason that a wave is building toward these midterm elections that is going to rebuke these abuses of power and this corruption in a historic way.

Well, I mean, and of course, you know the answer to that question.