Fridays with Nicole Sandler
This was an odd podcast, because Nicole and I went back and opened live to talk about Trump’s ambush of Zelenskyy.
I’ll say more in coming days. One thing I think is super important is that the SEC is moving to settle with Justin Sun, the Chinese-linked businessman who dumped $30 million into Trump’s crypto scam during the election. Once you do that, you’ve made bribery legal (which Pam Bondi and Chad Mizelle have been rushing to do in any case). Once Russia has the luxury of bribing Trump, Ukraine was never going to win this “negotiation.” The rest is just show, with America’s sovereignty and world peace to pay for it all.
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One wonders whether Sun was given his golden ticket to set up the crypto reserve (with appropriate beak-wetting of course).
Vance and Trump’s ambush of accusing Zelenskyy of not being “thankful enough” for the U.S. aiding Ukraine as Russia attacked it for the past three years, was a new low – even for Trump.
The dustup exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible of the pro-Putin comments from both Trump and Vance and this self-exposure is on view for the entire world to see and hear.
The white house inviting tass to the oval office to cover for russian state media is no coincidence.
Listening now. Glad you went back to discuss the Oval Office Ambush.
If FOTUS thinks his meltdown will decrease Zelens’kyy’s popularity at home, he’s delusional. And I’ll be surprised if it does much to dent American support for Ukraine–even R-leaning Ukraine supporters have few illusions about FOTUS’s “support” for Ukraine.
I’m sure FOTUS was already primed for a fight– Macron and Starmer contradicted him on consecutive days in those exact chairs. Same lie: that Europe’s aid to Ukraine was a loan and so they’d “get their money back” but the US wouldn’t.
Anyway, is the minerals “deal” off now, then? Maybe some of the Europeans would be interested in something more mutually beneficial.