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I'll share some of my thoughts on them, and we'll start with, uh, the thing that went around, it was all over Twitter this week, was this, uh, was this fundraiser that everybody was talking about in the Hamptons.

I think it was hosted at, uh, if I'm getting this right, uh, Omid Malek's, uh, residence in the Hamptons.

There're pictures of JD Vance there with Donald Trump Jr. and Omid Malek.

For those of you who don't know, Omid Malek is the, uh, runs 1789 Capital and, you know, you have, uh, you, you know, you have Donald Trump Jr. there and you have JD Vance.

And the way this thing was being portrayed and reacted to, I think, was a bit off, so I wanted to talk about that.

Without, uh, softballing anything or making apologies or, uh, you know, um, trying to make excuses for anything, I know that there's...

JD Vance has been kind of this wild card, this undecided.

A lot of people, including myself, have been frustrated with him for a whole host of reasons, but I think it's always good to be discerning.

That's what I try to do, and it pisses people off on both ends of this.

But basically, there was a fundraiser in the Hamptons.

Now, a lot of people were reacting to this and calling it a fundraiser for JD Vance at the home of, uh, Omid Malek, who, uh...

The issue with Omid Malek for a lot of people is that his fund, 1789 Capital, was one of the initial investors in the Tucker Carlson network.

But I want to provide some context to that and where that stands currently.

And, uh, bottom line is, there was a lot of, I think, overreaction to what this was and misrepresentation to what this was.

People were saying that this was a fundraiser for JD Vance.

It wasn't.

It was a fundraiser for the RNC, generally speaking.

They were raising money for Republicans.

I think they raised something like $5 million.

So it was a s- uh, it was a successful fundraiser in which people had to pay a lot of money to attend, and at this fundraiser you had, um, you had [laughs] the Vice-President of the United States, uh, you had the President's son in attendance, and they were raising money for the RNC.

Now, my message to my fellow Jews in the Jewish community who care about, uh, Jewish security, safety, and the, you know, state of the Jewish community in the diaspora, especially in the United States, it's like, you know, we kind of know the Democrats are going full DSA and have abandoned us early on, and we're losing a lot of MAGA Republicans too in a lot of respects, but you want to take a stand against the RNC, the Republicans generally? I, I think it does such a huge disservice to mischaracterize this fundraiser, to say this is a fundraiser for JD Vance.

No, he was attending a fundraiser for Republicans generally, for the RNC, for the party.

And when it comes to Omid Malek and his association with this, um, you know, you know, he was hosting it in order to raise money for the RNC.

His involvement with Tucker Carlson, what people have... are, are troubled about, including me, is that initially, yes, he was one of the investors in, uh, in the Tucker Carlson network, which got things going.

But it's important to remember that at the time of that investment, you know, Tucker, I think it was like 2024, l- you know, 2023, 2024 when it started, um, and he was...