alston & bird, a big d.c. law firm. they ve been getting paid $20,000 a month by what would be the taiwan embassy in the united states if we had diplomat relations with taiwan, which we don t, on purpose. bob dole may be 93, but that does not mean he s retired. he s still at it. it s fair to say we may have had some influence in setting up that diplomatic bombast of a phone call between the president-elect and the leader of taiwan. think about that for a second. i mean, it is one thing to be directly on the payroll of a foreign country, king charles. it is another thing to effectively be on the payroll but to collect your fee through your family business. but it is a third and co-equal
in return, the king of england said that he would before he died convert to catholicism. that was the deal. and apparently both kings, the king of england and the king of france thought this was a great deal, although understandably they both realized it was maybe a deal that should be kept secret from their subjects. but they made this deal in 1670, and after this deal was made for the duration of his time on the throne, king charles ii of england, he really was secretly on the payroll of another country. and in terms of the deal, regardless of how the agreed-upon religious conversion thing worked out, not actually sure if it did, history is a little fuzzy on the issue. but regardless of the converting to be a catholic issue, even if you remove from the equation
personal excuse me naked not political but personal gain? taking foreign money. this charles the ii stuff that we re seeing right now? this is the thing that we criticize kleptoaccuratic countries on other continents. this is nothing we ve had to confront in our own government before. the charles the ii stuff that we continue to get with each passing news cycle, we get more of these problems, that s a really big deal. in today s news we went a step beyond our charles ii problem, which we definitely have with the new president-elect. we ve got that problem. today we got a whole new and maybe worse problem because getting paid effectively by foreign governments is not the only way we can get into trouble as a country because our leader has stopped acting in the interests of our country and is being used for another country s purposes. paying the leader is one way we get into that kind of trouble as
hm. so 1670, he came up with a rescue plan for himself. in 1670, he made a secret deal with his first cousin, who conveniently was also a king. his first cousin was the king of france. and in this deal in 1670, the king of france agreed to secretly pay the king of england a ton of money for the rest of his life. in return, the king of england said that he would before he died convert to catholicism. that was the deal. and apparently both kings, the king of england and the king of france thought this was a great deal, although understandably they both realized it was maybe a deal that should be kept secret from their subjects. but they made this deal in 1670, and after this deal was made for the duration of his time on the throne, king charles ii of
before. the charles the ii stuff that we continue to get with each passing news cycle, we get more of these problems, that s a really big deal. in today s news we went a step beyond our charles ii problem, which we definitely haveith the new president-elect. we ve got that problem. today we got a whole new and maybe worse problem because getting paid effectively by foreign governments is not the only way we can get into trouble as a country because our leader has stopped acting in the intests of our country and is being used for another country s purposes. paying the leader is o way we get into that kind of trouble as a country. but today s new wrinkle is this. today we started to hear from the people who are overtry claiming credit for what the president-elect is doing with other countries. today we started to hear from the people who are overtly claiming credit for what just happened, for example, with taiwan.