Konstantin Sokolov

And how that ended up helping this fella basically make a ton of money on his own and accumulate all kinds of power.

So I wanted to give you a chance to talk about this fellow, Konstantin Sokolov, and sort of what that was all about, why you wrote that story, and why it's important.

Yeah.

So, you know, Konstantin Sokolov, he first came on my radar, um, when the White House released its list of ballroom donors last year, and it wasn't a full list, it was a partial list, but he was named on there, and he didn't really have any background that was kind of notable.

What he did have, um, I guess first of all, he stuck out from the rest of the list partly because of that.

The other donors were, like, big people who are kind of like, you know, muckety-mucks in conservative politics, like defense contractors like Lockheed Martin.