Max Tani

It was one of those tips that I was like, this is too good to be true.

There's just no way.

And it turned out it was exactly true.

Trump had been talking to Larry Ellison, saying that he should bring back this buddy cop comedy series starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.

And, you know,

I kind of raised some questions for me, like, is Trump a huge fan of this series?

Is he like watching the reruns of this on TNT or something?

But actually, it turned out, as it all, as many things do with Trump, to have a lot to do with his own personal relationships.

The longtime kind of overseer, creator, director of the Rush Hour series, Brett Ratner, also has a personal connection to Trump.

He is the director of

of this upcoming Amazon documentary about Melania Trump.

I have heard that he spent more time hanging around Mar-a-Lago and has a friendly relationship with the president.

One imagines that that played a certain role here.

I think that certainly Trump has no scruples, and many of the people in his circles have very few scruples about bringing back or working with people who've been credibly accused of serious misconduct.

And they've found that often some of these folks have common enemies in the kind of censorious media, as they kind of put it.

I think also in a certain way, they feel that some of these figures can be kind of like acquired on the cheap, essentially.

And you see this in a lot of cases with people who Trump gets close to.

Mel Gibson, who has not been accused of those things as far as I know.

You guys maybe should check that.

The comedian Russell Brand and others, certainly.