Chris LaCivita

Mr. Trump has at times chafed against the idea that his advisors are making money by selling their access to him and has lashed out at aides when their hefty consulting fees become public.

Earlier this month, Mr. Trump distanced himself from two of his top advisors who are guiding the Republican Party's midterm strategy after the Times reported that the men, James Blair and Chris LaCivita, were each paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide counsel to Republica Spurska, a pro-Russian Balkan government.

After Mr. Trump's public condemnation, Mr. Blair and Mr. Lasavita said they were donating the consulting feeds they earned for advising the government to Mr. Trump's presidential library fund.

He wants all of it.

But, Joe, the way this is moving, Joe, there's going to be a big investigation next year.

Chris LaCivita helped spend over a billion dollars this election cycle for two things, the Senate and the House.

Let me know how that billion dollars was well spent.

He relied on polls, not from Wedgwood, but from credited people who had a long time being.

I hate Russ Vaught just like you do, but you know what? Son of a bitch gets up every day and does things.

Chris LaCivita, flaming asshole, but he gets up every day and does things.

Susie Wiles, dark queen, gets up every day and does things.

No one expected he would be inert on this.

I mean, you know, as for whether Trump really cares about how it looked when his consultants were found to be doing what they were doing with Dodik, you know, initially Trump kind of publicly bristled at the reports and he said on Truth Social that he had no prior knowledge of the foreign consulting gig and he threatened to terminate any active consultants if a conflict of interest was found, as you said, Jamie.

But the tensions eased within the camp of those two consultants, La Civita and Blair, after they both donated their entire six-figure Bosnian consulting fees to to Trump's future presidential library.

So he found it with him himself to forgive them for their crimes.

Even so, you know, going into this election, I'm sure, you know, for the MAGA base, I'm sure this is low down on their list of priorities, what's going on in Serbia.

Several of those folks They left the White House.

People like James Blair, who was his deputy chief of staff, now along with Chris LaCivita, his former co-campaign manager, are overseeing MAGA, Inc., and are overseeing the strategy around where they are executing financially.

Can we remind people about

James Blair for a second? This is a guy who, alongside Chris LaCivita, had helped out with a Russian-backed territory overseas in Europe right now.

The president was furious that they were making millions of dollars off of this, and he said he would be okay with it basically if that money went to the presidential library.

So he's not okay with the corruption if it benefits others, but if it benefits him, he was

That's the big problem, I guess.

Earlier this month, Trump distanced himself from two of his top advisers who are guiding the Republican Party's midterm strategy after The Times reported that the men, James Blair and Chris LaCivita, We're each paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That's not 50 million.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Donald Trump struck a deal with them, at least it seems.

He said earlier in October, Chris LaCivita and James Blair are outside consultants, which is not true.

I mean, they worked on his campaign, worked in the White House with James Blair in respect to him.

They do not work for me, other than as outside consultants.

I want to get your take on the inner circle at the White House.

We've seen a new report every single day about that would seem to imply some dumping to the media on each other, whether it's James Blair, Chris LaCivita, Susie Wiles, a lot of reported infighting.

How real is that infighting?

More real than you're seeing reports.