performance, if you think about it. but like sam bankman-fried, it looked like a scam. so the tens of billions you re sending, is not charity, zelensky explained, this money, zelensky said, is, quote, an investment. ooh, an investment. what exactly are the terms of this 77. now that we re talking finance? when do we get our dividend checks? zelensky didn t specify that, but at one point in the speech he provided a-point. are the tens of billions of dollars you re sending me with no audit and no concrete proof of what i m actually doing with it, will all that money be enough, zelensky asked rhetorically. answer? not really. not really. he-he-he. more pitches for more investments in ukraine is the return. give me more money so i can demand more money. that s what zelensky promised us last night. under certain circumstances that might actually be fine, if nothing else zelensky is quite an audacious young entrepreneur with the kind of pluck and fast talking shamelessness where yo
biggest financial crime in history. why would they want to be lenient on him? look, he bought a partial insurance policy, tucker. he didn t buy the full insurance policy, but the partial insurance policy was to be one of the good guys, advocating for responsible regulation, shelling out tens of millions of dollars of likely stolen money to the democratic party flaunting it to be one of the good guys. he pledged a billion. only ponied up $30 million to $40 million of that. it s the genteel the way the game is played. prosecutors rarely would have reached this deal without quite possibly proposing it together with him. everybody gets something out of the trade. he gets a sweetheart bond deal while the prosecutors come out looking tough, everyone gets something out of the trade, except the asymmetry how we treat this defendant versus others. tucker: you think where did he get the money?
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