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“And then the Biden team was worried about the global oil prices. They stopped enforcing the sanctions. They've sold over a hundred fifty billion of oil, which has allowed them to refill their coffers.”

“We were faced at a situation where the government was just very unprepared for what was occurring, and there'd been a lot of mistakes done by the CDC with the testing”

“And then the other criticism is that they were helping fund Hamas and they have the office there. But the reality is, is that that was always done at the request of the US government and the Israelis were working hand in hand with them in order to work that th…”

“Iran was on a glide path to a nuclear weapon, having just been given a hundred and fifty billion dollars in cash through the disastrous JCPOA deal that that Kerry and Obama negotiated.”

“I know Antonio Gracios has done amazing work helping figure out how to get, you know, make sure we're only paying social security. I think he saved over ten billion a year so far from that.”

“In the raid that Israel did in retaliation, they took out all of their air defenses and a lot of their Long range missile making capability, which means they don't have the ability necessarily to sustain a long conflict.”

“And with Trump coming in, there's a super high probability that their ability to sell oil in the future is going to go down.”

“So to give you a sense, when Obama left office, they were selling 2.6 million barrels of oil a day. When Trump left office, they were selling about a 100,000 barrels of oil a day. The Biden administration didn't enforce the sanctions, and now they're selling o…”

“Israel's a nuclear power.”

“Under Obama, when he left, they were selling about 2.6 million barrels of oil a day. Under Trump, when he left office, they were selling a 100,000 barrels of oil a day.”

“They were dead broke. Now they're back up to three million barrels a day of sales. They've done over a hundred billion dollars of oil revenue since we left office.”

“We invested then at about 37 dollars a share. Today, the stock's almost 120 dollars a share. Because we needed a approval from the regulator, we bought 4.9 then, and then another 4.9 later. So we're able to use better leverage because the shares went up quite …”

“You saw when Elon Musk put out an idea for how to navigate the situation in Ukraine, he got blasted by a lot of people.”

“And so through that, we were actually making great progress where we basically were going to get about 400 testing sites up from nothing in about four or five days.”

“The controversies you hear about them are around, they're funding a lot of these colleges and universities, but From what I've looked into that, it shows that they're basically funding the universities that have built campuses in their country because they car…”

“They all agreed, and so over the last year, we closed a billion and a half extra capital and extended the investment period of the fund to 2029.”

“Now he's coming in much more popular than last time, way more accepted than last time.”

“There was just a study that came out on the program we put in place, which basically brings skills training, alcohol training, and allowing inmates to earn earlier release by taking these courses. What it did was, there was the people who got out who didn't us…”

“Investments did over five hundred billion dollars of investments in arms sales with Saudi Arabia that created a lot of us jobs.”

“Well, we ended up negotiating with Japan and Korea and everyone, and we got basically 95% of the market access that was in TPP without giving up any of the things that would have absolutely decimated our auto industry.”

“I think the office space right now is in for a massive change in the industry. I think you're going to see a lot of the older buildings get get transitioned. A lot of them are trading now for below land price, which is pretty remarkable.”

“The building we bought was for 1.8 billion dollars, which at the time was the largest price ever paid for a single asset in the country.”

“And ISIS was roaming around and had a caliphate the size of Ohio. Where they were governing over eight million people pretty ruthlessly.”

“Kevin Hassett, who's on our team, is now going to become the national economic advisor for president Trump.”

“And so we ended up finding more Q-tips in a factory in Italy, and we sent some C-seventeens from the military to pick them up before anyone noticed they were there.”

“And what happened was is they said, can we give you a million dollars? To invest in companies that you're investing in with you. And so Josh said, I guess we have a fund now.”

“He just got nominated to be ambassador for France.”

“I had all the police groups, the Sheriff's Association, the FOP, everyone supported the reforms, and I think that they'll make a big difference over time.”

“At that point in time, I remember seeing polls that, Illegal immigration was not like a top five issue when he started the campaign by, you know, the middle to end of the campaign, people were really seeing the craziness that was happening at the southern bord…”

“Again, I wasn't accepting money for any of these jobs, so it wasn't doing it for financial gain.”

“Before October seventh, I mean, over half the population lived under the poverty line.”

“ISIS had a caliphate the size of Ohio. They were ruling over eight million people.”

“I think GDP will take a big hit there in Q four, but obviously, you know, in Israel, they do have a history of coming back right away.”

“One thing with Trump, he won, you know, with his operation, we were able to overperform our polling.”

“In a year and a half, we renegotiated NAFTA, and it got over 80 votes in the Senate.”

“When we were in kind of our worst moments in COVID, the second country that sent us a plane load of supplies and ventilators when New York looked like it was, you know, on the verge of going under was Russia.”

“In the U.S., we have about one point 1300 gigawatts of energy. but what they showed me is that there's about 2000 gigawatts of energy that was waiting for permits from the FERC”

“Manhattan's vacancy rate in the Plaza District was about four percent, which meant the rents were going up double digits every year.”

“We brought in Carlisle Group and the Chira family to buy 50% of the retail for five hundred and twenty-five million dollars at the time, and then we kept a 50%.”

“Then we were able to turn that value into north of a billion of value over the next three, four years, and the Chira's did a great job along with Carlisle, and we were able to get our 50% of the profits, which also returned a lot of our cash from the original …”

“Leased the whole building, and we ended up selling it for about a hundred sixty million about a year later.”

“Most of the deals we've done have been with other firms where I try to say with affinity that we're competitive to no one, but collaborative with everyone and complimentary. So we work with all the other top tier firms and we co-invest where they bring differe…”

“They said, we have 1.2 million swabs in the country. I said, okay, what does that mean? They said, that means we could do 37 testing sites.”

“I mean, they manage over a hundred fifty billion dollars. They're doing SMAs now with BlackRock and Aries and Apollo and many others, and they have a very strong position in the market, phenomenal management team, and several business lines that I think are po…”

“He started a second chance program in his company where a lot of people come out of prison, get jobs at Kushner.”

“And I will say in New York that the rental rates for residential, I think are at historic highs”

“I sat with MBZ, who's now the president of UAE. At the time, he was the crown prince, but he was the de facto ruler of the country.”

“I was getting interviewed in some windowless conference room. I had my two lawyers next to me. I had three FBI agents and three representatives of the special counsel sitting across the desk.”