While Santos’s recollections of working at Goldman were enough to fool one Wall Street interlocutor in early 2022,[28] another was not deceived, because, he recalled, at a March fundraiser, Santos, after alluding to his time with the investment bank, promised that if elected he would put pressure on China, to the point of requiring the U.S. to stop repaying its debt to that country, and anyone who had worked in finance would not have suggested that, as the results would be disastrous.[105]

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