President Donald Trump on Wednesday said “I don’t want” to walk away from Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the suspected crown prince-ordered murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump, justifying the stance, pointed to an essentially non-existent “$110 billion” arms “deal” with Saudi Arabia. Trump claimed the deal “is 500,000 jobs,” but it’s unclear where that number came from, nor what specifically he was referring to.
Trump, asked if the U.S. will "walk away" from Saudi Arabia: "I don't want to do that." pic.twitter.com/dyDEn4iTl8
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Yes, the $110B arms deal figure is made up, cobbled together from past deals and hypothetical ones in the future.
But more importantly for him, he sees the Saudis as future Trump real estate investors
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Yeah we know. They apparently tortured him for something like 7 minutes with that bone saw but Trump doesn’t want to “rush to judgment.”
The utterings of an orange buffoon… sigh…