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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Trump basically said today
"If you have oil, commit any crime you want"
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)And I certainly dont think its about a bogus multi-billion dollar arms deal.
Same as with Russia, Trump is either compromised or owned by the Saudis.
If they had been giving and laundering millions of dollars to Trump over the years, exposing that would end Trump but no one could really do anything to the Saudis.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)sheshe2
(83,898 posts)"It is what it is."
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)amywalk
(254 posts)He constantly criticises the intelligence community. You would think they have a shiff load of dirty laundry that could stand a little airing.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Hard to see how supporting dictators who dismember their critics as being consistent with American values, but as Trump hastens to point out, he's the president and nobody else is.
Maybe it's time for a new president, one who doesn't think brutally murdering someone is just another expression of statecraft.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)And destroying billions of dollars of infrastructure and 10s of billions of economic.activity.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)"After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Bush didn't call for sacrifice. He called for shopping. "Get down to Disney World in Florida," he said. "Take your families and enjoy life, the way we want it to be enjoyed." Taken on its own, this wasn't such a horrible sentiment. But Boston University historian Andrew Bacevich has made a convincing case that it was part of a broader pattern of encouraging financial irresponsibility. "Bush seems to have calculated cynically but correctly that prolonging the credit-fueled consumer binge could help keep complaints about his performance as Commander in Chief from becoming more than a nuisance," Bacevich wrote in the Washington Post in October. Now we're paying the bill."
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Sure, intelligence officials are saying it's undoubtedly Putin/MbS, but it could be anyone. Translation: I have large sums of money at stake and a cult following to maintain with the help of obfuscation, so I'm going to pull random statements out of my ass. P.S. I'm an evil narcissist, and my predecessor would have been impeached for any one of a hundred criminal things I've done. Thank goodness I seem to be made of teflon.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Always remember, roughly half of all Americans have very short memories. How convenient!
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)our weapons to kill us.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Although I think it also has to do with plans the Trumps have to personally enrich themselves from Saudi money.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)is all that matters to them. Jared and Donnie are raking in some big money.
And our journalists are sitting targets.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)He said "If you have oil AND YOU SELL IT TO US CHEAPLY....."
Takket
(21,625 posts)If I have financial interests that are tied to your financial interests, feel free to murder people.
He wouldnt give a fuck about the cost of oil if he didnt have millions tied up in SA
AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)Right?
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,501 posts)onenote
(42,759 posts)If he had, and we had a president like Trump....well, you get the idea.