Susan Glasser

has.

And

You know, this goes back to what we mentioned with Trump and Israel and Gaza, which is that Donald Trump wants to be seen as a dealmaker, seen as a peacemaker, especially in the Middle East, but is often really not a very strong negotiator, not a strong dealmaker.

So

He appeared to give Saudi Arabia a lot of what it had wanted in terms of security promises from the United States and defense cooperation without the part that the U.S.

had been demanding in exchange, which was please join

the Abraham Accords and normalize your relationship with Israel.

And Donald Trump just threw that conditionality out the window, right?

And sort of said like, oh, well, we didn't get there on this one.

So here, I'll just give you all this stuff anyways.

And

you know, a tough negotiator wouldn't have done that.

So it seems like Saudi Arabia came here and got a lot more of what it wanted.

And it's not clear to me what the U.S.

got out of this, aside from possibly more side business deals that would benefit Trump's family or the family of some of his cabinet members.

Yeah, I think I think you're right to make sure that we talk about it because this is a signature moment in Donald Trump's campaign of revenge and retribution.

And that, I think, is a huge part of what he wants to do with the White House in his second term.

And the fact that he's got himself an FBI and a Justice Department, that he's reshaped in the mode of personal loyalty shock troops.

This case is going to be kind of one of the signature examples of that.

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