Rachel Maddow

famous for recently structuring a totally pointless crypto financial transaction so that $2 billion of it would be stuffed into the Trump family's otherwise worthless brand new crypto financial firm.

And of course, you remember the Saudis who stuffed another $2 billion into the pockets of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, just as Trump's first term in office came to a close.

You might remember enough people were alarmed about that when it happened that the Trump administration

Folks actually sort of bothered to come up with an excuse for what made that OK.

They said, don't worry, Jared will never again work for the U.S.

government.

He's never coming back to Washington.

So it's OK that he's taken all this money from the Saudis now.

We will never have to worry about having somebody involved in U.S.

policy who has also just been given billions of dollars by Saudi Arabia, apparently for no reason.

Well, that was the explanation when he took all that money from the Saudis at the end of Trump's first term.

And now today, who has been leading the negotiations on behalf of the United States government with Iran before we just started this war with them today?

I mean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in St.

Kitts this week.

It wasn't him.

No, it was Jared Kushner.

president's son-in-law, recently paid billions of dollars by Iran's chief rival, and nevertheless sitting there alongside Trump's tiny real estate friend, Steve Witkoff, who has sought recently to improve his considerable family fortunes by going to Qatar to seek money from its sovereign wealth fund.

Weird that those talks didn't work, right?

It's like if you were having a backyard dispute with your neighbor, you know, hey, your new fence crosses over on the property line, comes over into my yard.

That tree you just cut down, that hedge you just cut down, hey, that was mine.