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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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Come for the chaos. Stay because you're too confused to click away. So yesterday was a huge day for President Trump in Saudi Arabia. He arrived in Riyadh. He was greeted on the tarmac by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. MBS, as he is so-called, is obviously a signal figure in the Middle East.
He's completely shifted the direction of Saudi Arabia away from sort of a Wahhabi version of Islam that was spreading terror tentacles all over the planet. That's what we all grew up with in the early 2000s and the 1990s and toward a regime of modernization. That, of course, is very difficult to do in the Middle East. And MBZ, as he's called, requires credit for that.
And the reality is that modernizing the kingdom of Saudi Arabia so as to be more pro-Western, so as to be more modern, It's changed the entire Middle East.
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Chapter 2: What did President Trump accomplish during his visit to Saudi Arabia?
And they're murdering Druze wholesale in southern Syria to the point that the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, had to deploy in southern Syria to save the Druze from al-Jalani's terrorist thugs. And by the way, they were killing the odd Christian as well. So before we all cheer the removal of the sanctions, we should recognize that al-Jalani is not, in fact, a friend to minorities in Syria.
Also, there ought to be strings attached. So trust but verify would be the order of the day with both Saudi and with Syria and with everybody in the Middle East. Trust but verify. Strings attached should be the way that we approach our foreign policy in these areas. We'll get to more on this in a moment. First, I'd like to change gears for a moment and talk about Israel. It is now May.
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Chapter 3: How does Trump's approach to Saudi Arabia differ from Biden's?
You can't say it's good for Qatar to fund our universities, but bad for them to give president Trump a jet. Both things are not good. Both things are very bad. Qatar is a cancer from within the Western coalition. That is what they are. And pretending otherwise is a mistake. Meanwhile, again, as I've said, it does not benefit President Trump to continue to take this jet. It just doesn't.
It's not just people like me saying this. Obviously, the Republican senators who are going to be up for reelection, who are going to be asked questions about all of this. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said that there are lots of issues associated with that offer I think need to be further talked about. Senator Rand Paul said, I think the jet probably sends the wrong signal to people.
I don't like the look or the appearance of it. I would hope he rejects it. Senator Cruz noted Qatar's financial support for Hamas and also that Qatar backed Hezbollah. He said, I think the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems. We'll see how it plays out. Again, this is going to be a problem. It will. And Democrats are going to make hay out of it.
Apparently, Democrats are planning to fly some flags in Florida near Mar-a-Lago, calling it Qatar-a-Lago. I mean, honestly, it'd be political malpractice for them not to jump on this, considering they basically have no other ground to attack President Trump. Hakeem Jeffries is hopefully, like with stars in his eyes, attacking the $400 million jet quote-unquote gift.
A $400 million flying palace is an unconstitutional gift to this president or any president if it is not explicitly approved by the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Okay, so by the way, that is a thing that actually happened with the Statue of Liberty. So people saying this is like the Statue of Liberty, a few differences. One, the president couldn't personally fly the Statue of Liberty. Two, it actually did have to be approved by Congress. Three, it was from an allied country, France, not a country that supports terrorism, Qatar. So a few differences.
Also, the Statue of Liberty did not have surveillance technology, probably honeycombed throughout the technology on the most sensitive security site in America. So there are a few differences that I will note there. Chuck Schumer is using this as an opportunity to hold up President Trump's Justice Department nominees.
According to The New York Times, Senator Schumer, who is the Democratic minority leader, intends on Tuesday to put a hold on all Justice Department political appointees awaiting Senate confirmation until he gets more information on plans by President Trump to accept a luxury airliner from Qatar.
Schumer said on the Senate floor, it's not just naked corruption, it's a grave national security threat. And he's expected to call on the Justice Department's Foreign Agents Registration Act unit to report on any activities by Qatari agents in the United States that could benefit the president or any of his family's businesses.
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