What the Fox Happened This Week
Way too much to keep up with.
Here’s an incomplete round up of some truly WTF stories from this past week.
Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer resigns after Epstein files drop
Kathy Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer and former Obama White House counsel, resigned on Feb 12th after the Justice Department released millions of pages of Epstein files showing she called him “sweetie,” “Uncle Jeffrey,” and wrote “Well, I adore him. It’s like having another older brother!” Way to degrade your older brother.
She’s now joining a fun club: Brad Karp, chairman of Paul Weiss (one of the most prestigious law firms in the world), stepped down Feb 4th over his Epstein emails, and Britain’s ambassador to the US got fired in September for the same reason. At least half a dozen top Trump officials are also in the files.
Totally normal stuff.
Netanyahu met with Trump while annexing the West Bank
Before arriving in DC, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s security cabinet approved measures to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank and buy Palestinian land. His Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the quiet part out loud, bragging they're working to "extinguish the idea of a Palestinian state."
Back home, Netanyahu's got a corruption trial hanging over him and elections coming by October. His coalition might collapse by March 31st if he can't pass a budget because the ultra-Orthodox parties want to keep their military draft exemption. Trump also called Israel's president "disgraceful" for not pardoning Netanyahu.
Nothing weird about that.
Japan's heavy metal biker grandma just became the most powerful conservative on the planet
Japan elected its first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, in its biggest landslide since 1955, which sounds like progress until you read literally anything else about her.
Her platform includes opposing same-sex marriage, forcing women to surrender their maiden names, and installing patriotic education in schools (aka nationalistic propaganda).
She plans to meet with Trump in March, presumably to compare notes.
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