Susan Glasser

Yes, it is. By the way, it's interesting. I think insider trading among members of Congress is a good example of something that they may finally be doing something about right now, which is something. But it's like handing out traffic tickets when the head of the city is a murderer. I mean, the scale of the actions that you're talking about are... so vastly different.

And I think Eric is making a point here that, you know, imagine essentially if Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller was the president of the United States setting the rules by which he could have that railroad monopoly, you know, in the end of the 19th century and, you know, disabling his competitors and, you know, rigging the system in every possible way and performing both functions all at once.

And I think Eric is making a point here that, you know, imagine essentially if Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller was the president of the United States setting the rules by which he could have that railroad monopoly, you know, in the end of the 19th century and, you know, disabling his competitors and, you know, rigging the system in every possible way and performing both functions all at once.

On the crypto thing, by the way, it's not just Donald Trump and his sons who are now in this business that the government is essentially going to determine the future of at the same time they're earning money from it. Their partners in this business are the sons of Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's everything envoy, who is... No, that's literally true.

On the crypto thing, by the way, it's not just Donald Trump and his sons who are now in this business that the government is essentially going to determine the future of at the same time they're earning money from it. Their partners in this business are the sons of Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's everything envoy, who is... No, that's literally true.

And who is traveling the world going from Gaza and Hamas to meeting with Putin all by himself without a translator to Iran. Witkoff and his two sons are the business partners of Donald Trump and his two sons. Howard Lutnick is a huge proponent and investor in the crypto industry.

And who is traveling the world going from Gaza and Hamas to meeting with Putin all by himself without a translator to Iran. Witkoff and his two sons are the business partners of Donald Trump and his two sons. Howard Lutnick is a huge proponent and investor in the crypto industry.

Last summer, I think one of the signal moments, very overlooked, although covered in The Times and The Journal and elsewhere, was when Donald Trump took time out of the campaign trail in 2024 and went to Nashville, Tennessee for the annual National Crypto Conference. He was cheered like a hero by the crypto industry and he made promises that he is now fulfilling

Last summer, I think one of the signal moments, very overlooked, although covered in The Times and The Journal and elsewhere, was when Donald Trump took time out of the campaign trail in 2024 and went to Nashville, Tennessee for the annual National Crypto Conference. He was cheered like a hero by the crypto industry and he made promises that he is now fulfilling

to this industry to essentially help treat it like a currency and to give it the status that will enable them to become even more wealthy. And he followed that up in September, again, in the middle of this campaign by taking time out to announce that they were going to get into the crypto business with the Witkoffs and his sons and create this company called World Liberty Financial.

to this industry to essentially help treat it like a currency and to give it the status that will enable them to become even more wealthy. And he followed that up in September, again, in the middle of this campaign by taking time out to announce that they were going to get into the crypto business with the Witkoffs and his sons and create this company called World Liberty Financial.

There's a classic quote from Donald Trump because he used to call crypto a quote scam. And then when he made this announcement in September of 2024, he said, well, you know, I don't really know what it is, but everybody's got to get into it. So we got to get in it.

There's a classic quote from Donald Trump because he used to call crypto a quote scam. And then when he made this announcement in September of 2024, he said, well, you know, I don't really know what it is, but everybody's got to get into it. So we got to get in it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, John, right now, the United States of America is the single largest source of global instability.

You know, John, right now, the United States of America is the single largest source of global instability.

Yeah. I mean, there's no question about that. When a superpower goes rogue, you have an enormous crisis for the world.

Yeah. I mean, there's no question about that. When a superpower goes rogue, you have an enormous crisis for the world.

And the one element that we should add to Eric's already very daunting and distressing list of ways in which the co-mingling of Trump's personal business and America's foreign policy interests create a crisis is, of course, Donald Trump's single-handed upending of the world economy.