Fox News PRAISES Trump Son For Scoring Gov Contract

0:00 One thing that I think we have struggled to cover as extensively as we should is

0:04 the epic level of corruption in uh the Trump

0:08 government and with Trump and his family in particular.

0:11 So fortunately for us, uh, Isaac Saul, founder of Tangle News,

0:15 has gone in and done the work over the past year or so,

0:18 compiling as much as we can possibly

0:20 get about the various corrupt skies and dealings,

0:24 compiling it into one comprehensive piece to truly understand

0:29 the scale and magnitude of the level of corruption we're experiencing,

0:32 which is truly unlike anything we have seen before.

0:34 And Isaac now joins us.

0:36 Great to see you.

0:37 Thanks for having me, guys.

0:38 Glad to be here.

0:38 Good to see you, dude.

0:39 Yeah, of course.

0:40 So, let's put your story up on the screen here.

0:42 Um, which is the everything everywhere all at once corruption story.

0:47 Well said.

0:48 And I also want to as a jumping off point here just to get at the level of sort

0:52 of brazeness and how this has just become part

0:56 of the water that we swim in with the Trump administration.

0:59 this clip of Eric Trump, the president's son,

1:02 appearing on Fox News and being congratulated

1:07 for contracts that his company won with the Pentagon

1:11 as this is a as if this is a completely like normal and above board thing.

1:15 Let's take a listen to that.

1:17 And the company's chief strategy adviser, Eric Trump, President Trump's son.

1:21 Congratulations to you both.

1:23 Thank you so much for being here.

1:26 Thanks, Maria.

1:26 Thanks for having us, Maria.

1:28 And as you rightly, Isaac in the piece point out like we spent a lot

1:31 of time and you spent a lot

1:32 of time thinking about Hunter Biden and potential corruption.

1:34 They nothing compared to this.

1:36 Imagine Hunter Biden going on MSNBC and having

1:40 their Congratulations on this contract you scored with the Pentagon.

1:43 I mean, it's unimaginable.

1:45 But before we get into some of the specific details of your piece,

1:48 just talk about that climate and the environment it's

1:52 created for journalists and the way that this has

1:55 just become kind of a an accepted part

1:58 of the way that the Trump administration operates.

2:02 Yeah.

2:02 I mean, there there's something happening where

2:04 it feels kind of like we're under

2:05 a bit of a cell and I don't really know how to explain it.

2:09 But I think for opponents of the president,

2:11 you know, Democrats, people who didn't vote for him,

2:13 there's just so much coming out of the fire hose every day,

2:17 it's hard to get your head around it.

2:18 And I think they don't know really where to focus

2:21 or where to attack or which allegations to even prosecute.

2:25 And then the people who support him, I mean,

2:27 the brazeness, they're being so forward about it.

2:30 I mean, Trump told the New York Times, "Look,

2:32 my first term, we tried to separate the family business.

2:35 Nobody cared.

2:35 I got no credit for it.

2:36 So this time, I don't care.

2:38 We found out nobody cared, so we're just doing what we want,

2:41 basically is how he put it.

2:43 And it's true.

2:44 I mean, they are literally the president's son-in-law is landing deals,

2:49 raising money from Saudi Arabia while he is in the Middle East

2:54 negotiating a war that we're involved

2:57 in with Saudi Arabia's primary regional enemy.

3:00 I mean, the the thought of that a year or two

3:03 ago or happening under the Biden administration was really unfathomable,

3:07 but we've just become so used to it now and it's so almost expected.

3:12 I don't know if it's, you know,

3:14 just the low expectations or it's the fact that it's

3:17 happening so much that we've kind of numbed ourselves to it.

3:20 But when you look at it all together as I did

3:22 and you try and take it all in at the same time, it's just it's gobsmacking.

3:26 I mean, I reading my own writing, I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.

3:31 Isaac, you uh there are there's almost literally too many for us to mention.

3:35 So, why don't you pick a few of the examples?

3:38 And again, everyone needs to go and read this.

3:40 Like, just go read it.

3:41 We'll have a link down in our description, but for those who are just listening,

3:44 can you pick a few examples which you

3:46 think are the most egregious over the last year?

3:49 Yeah, look, I mean the the one to me that is probably the most

3:53 offensive is just the whole of the cryptocurrency stuff, which is, you know,

3:58 Trump launched a literal meme coin that had zero

4:01 value with his name as the name of the coin

4:04 and basically rugpulled a bunch of investors leading up

4:08 to his inauguration and then the days after his election.

4:11 And now he's soliciting dinners at the White House, at Mara Lago,

4:16 at his properties across the country to people who

4:19 buy the most amount of coin of his Trump memecoin,

4:23 which again has no inherent value.

4:24 It's just basically this social hype cryptocurrency and he's

4:29 just out there advertising it and flaunting it.

4:32 And the people who are paying money to get

4:34 to those dinners are not just random American fans of his.

4:38 They are sometimes foreign dignitaries.

4:40 There are people with associations with governments whose,

4:43 you know, who we're making foreign policy around.

4:45 There are people in industries that Trump is responsible for regulating.

4:49 I mean, the overtness of it is so insane.

4:53 It's it's really is genuinely hard to fathom.

4:55 And I don't mean to be hyperbolic.

4:57 I am somebody, like I said, I'm not I don't have Trump derangement syndrome.

5:00 I spent the four years of the Biden

5:02 administration chasing the Hunter Biden story,

5:04 which I thought there was a lot of smoke around

5:06 and some very weird stuff happening there that was worth investigating.

5:10 But what we're seeing now is just

5:11 a waterfall unlike anything I can really comprehend.

5:14 And then I' I'd say second to the cryptocurrency is the pardons.

5:18 I mean, we now have what I called in this piece a pardon industry.

5:23 There are people around Trump who are taking money

5:26 to to literally go to him and say, "Hey,

5:28 we got to pardon this guy who paid me a million

5:31 dollar fee and donated to your campaign and wants to get

5:34 out of prison for Medicare fraud or for defrauding donors when

5:38 he was a member of Congress." And Trump's just doing it.

5:40 I mean, these are some of the slimiest slime of the DC swamp

5:44 that he promised to drain when he first came up the escalator, you know,

5:49 and now he's letting all these people off

5:51 with a free pass for some of the really grossest,

5:54 you know, kind of uh fraud and um

5:58 low denominator DC schemes that you can imagine.

6:03 And it's it's hard to accept.

6:05 Yeah.

6:05 I do want to I want to pause on the crypto part as well

6:08 because not only by the the dollar amount is that the most significant,

6:13 you know, the bulk of Trump's wealth

6:14 at this point comes from crypto investments.

6:18 It's this incredible scheme to funnel him money

6:21 um to facilitate some of the some some

6:23 of the pardon industry comes directly through um investments

6:27 in Trump's or assistance for Trump's various crypto ventures.

6:31 It also is direct exploitation of his own supporters who are the ones

6:35 that through buying both Trump's shitcoin and Melania's shitcoin had the rugpull

6:40 and you know ultimately lost money in service of further enriching

6:45 the very guy that they so support and believe so and believe in.

6:49 So I feel like the crypto piece is what has really enabled the truly world

6:55 historic amounts of corruption and graft that Trump

6:59 personally himself has been able to participate in.

7:02 Yeah.

7:02 I I would say on top of just the the sadness and frustration

7:07 that I feel for his supporters who sort of followed him out

7:09 onto this branch before they cut it off and Melania Trump participated

7:13 in this too as you said with her own shitcoin that she rolled out.

7:18 We also have, I mean, literally some of the wealthiest people

7:22 and most politically influential people in the Middle

7:24 East like uh from the UAE who own nearly half of World Liberty Financial,

7:30 which is this crypto firm that the Trump family stood up.

7:34 I mean, they're investing hundreds of millions of dollars into this firm.

7:39 And I want to reiterate, when Biden was president,

7:42 we spent four years talking about his son getting a $50,000

7:46 a month salary for a Ukrainian at a Ukrainian energy firm.

7:50 And now we have the most influential people in the Middle East,

7:55 closely tied to a conflict that we're deeply involved in, who own hundreds

7:59 of millions of dollars of a crypto firm that the Trump family is running.

8:03 I mean, the the dynamics there are genuinely horrifying

8:08 in terms of what it means for the decision-m process

8:11 that we as a country are making as we set

8:14 off into this war in the Middle East with Iran.

8:17 And the UAE again, like Saudi Arabia,

8:19 is a country that wants us to stay in this war, which right now we're doing.

8:24 And it it's just it's too easy to do the 1 plus 1 equals two here,

8:29 but it's so obvious.

8:30 I don't know what else to think.

8:32 Yeah.

8:32 You talked there not just about I mean give us some of the other

8:35 examples you you cite like Trump mobile a branded phone I didn't

8:39 even see you had so many things in here I'm like I didn't

8:42 even know about this I didn't know that there was a Trump phone

8:45 it took so long to compile this picture but yeah

8:50 Trump mobile is a $400 branded phone 4745 a month

8:55 for the 47 plan the Trump organization doesn't even manufacture

8:59 this phone they're basically just licensing his game and selling it.

9:03 Um, there's a club in Washington.

9:05 Like, wait, what does the phone do?

9:08 I actually believe it's an Android phone.

9:09 The phone is yet to be released.

9:11 The network is going to be operated by Liberty Mobile Wireless, by the way.

9:15 So, there's sort of this circular thing here where

9:17 they're looping it back into their other firms and companies.

9:20 He's just licensing his name and then

9:23 promoting the presidential brand, you know,

9:25 while he's while he's in office and then taking

9:27 a profit from all the people who sign up for it.

9:30 Um, and this is a theme, too.

9:31 I mean, the Trump family opened the executive

9:34 exclusive club called the executive branch in Washington.

9:37 $500,000 for a membership to it.

9:40 The parent company, Trump social media platform, uh, of Trump social is DJT.

9:45 That's their ticker in their public stock.

9:48 Trump holds a huge stake in that company.

9:50 And weirdly, the stock seems to fluctuate with the Trump's popularity,

9:54 the President Trump's popularity.

9:56 Uh, Eric Trump, as you mentioned, went on Fox News,

9:58 graciously accepted a congratulations for this $24 million

10:02 Pentagon contract a company he's helping run got.

10:06 While I was viewing this story, the Financial Times reported that the Trump Suns

10:10 had taken a stake in this Kazak mining company.

10:14 And then literally hours later,

10:15 a Bloomberg story came out about the US Air Force agreeing to buy an undisclosed

10:20 number of interceptor drones from a company

10:23 that the Trump sons are also backing.

10:26 I mean, it's just on and on and on.

10:28 Don Jr.

10:29 is investing in and advising Poly Market and Cowshi gambling companies where

10:34 by the way we've seen these very

10:36 peculiar trades happening huge huge whales coming

10:39 in and betting on things like you know tariffs being called off or a ceasefire

10:44 in Iran with the kind of timing that to me only implies insider information.

10:49 I mean the the deeper you go the more there are.

10:52 And the crazy thing for me was as this piece was coming

10:54 out as I was literally drafting the piece more stories were breaking.

10:58 So I'm I'm like having to add

11:00 paragraph and paragraph right up to publication time.

11:03 I mean it seems like every other day there's another story like this.

11:06 Yeah.

11:06 Well, and I'm you are going to have to continue to update

11:09 this as long as he's in uh the White House because Yeah,

11:12 it is every day that a new revelation comes out or new questions too

11:17 cuz some of it is hard to pin down like the insider trading thing.

11:19 There's a lot of smoke there but you

11:21 can't pinpoint exactly who or exactly how much etc.

11:24 But it certainly seems like it's a systematic aspect of this administration.

11:29 Talk to us a little bit about the role that the Trump properties serve.

11:33 Um I I was kind of shocked by this statistic that you have here.

11:36 You say eight foreign governments have hosted or sponsored events

11:40 at Trump properties in just the first year of his second term.

11:44 You can also fold into that, you know,

11:46 the deal making that Jared Kushner is doing uh throughout

11:49 the Middle East and and around the world as well.

11:51 So, how significant have these Trump branded properties been to this operation?

11:57 Yeah, they they've been pretty significant.

11:59 And this is something that I think is really understated

12:02 because Trump has done a really good job of branding,

12:05 you know, Mara Lago as the winner White House.

12:08 And we've all sort of become accustomed to the fact that he might meet

12:11 with some foreign leader or have some highlevel

12:15 meetings at his properties outside the White House,

12:18 which you know, this is almost a place where I'm

12:20 I could be a little more sympathetic to the president.

12:22 He comes in as this businessman.

12:24 He owns these properties.

12:26 Of course, he might use them.

12:27 They're they're functional for these kinds of highlevel glitzy meetings.

12:32 But then you dig into it and you

12:34 realize that these properties exist all over the world.

12:37 And as Trump's political fame has risen,

12:41 they using that they use that fame to raise all

12:45 this money for people who are donating to his campaigns.

12:48 And then they're sometimes gifting out big events at these major properties.

12:52 Sometimes they're allowing people to pay to come

12:55 in and host big events at these properties,

12:57 not just in the United States, but again all over the world.

13:00 These are often foreign leaders who are organizing events or meetings,

13:04 high level events or meetings,

13:05 then giving the Trump family cash under the table,

13:08 which is sort of like this open, hey,

13:11 we just gave you a few million dollars and now

13:13 I'm going to come meet with you at maybe

13:15 your golf course in Ireland or at this site

13:18 of a luxury hotel that's not even finished yet,

13:20 but you're building in a place like Qatar.

13:23 And then while we're there,

13:24 we're going to discuss how the US regulates arms deals to cutter.

13:30 That is problematic.

13:31 Like there is an issue there that everybody should really care about.

13:34 Um I think one of the big ones that we're going to see happen now is

13:37 that Trump just selected National Dural Miami uh

13:41 hotel to host the December G20 summit this year.

13:43 So 20 of the biggest countries and leaders

13:46 are going to be coming to his property.

13:49 there's going to be a huge amount of money

13:50 dumped into reserving that property and paying the Trump family,

13:54 the Trump organization to come use it.

13:56 And then when everybody's there,

13:57 Trump's going to be on his home turf kind of, you know,

14:00 negotiating and navigating all these relationships he has.

14:03 That that alone, like that story by itself, I should just say,

14:08 would be a massive monthsl long scandal in any other administration.

14:13 And it is two sentences of a 6,000word piece

14:16 that I wrote about this like That alone would would do,

14:20 you know, newspaper headlines in a different era for months on end.

14:24 But in this administration,

14:25 it's like most Americans don't even seem to know about it.

14:28 That's crazy.

14:28 Well, you did such a great job, Isaac.

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14:36 Thank you.

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