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JonLP24

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Thu Mar 14, 2019, 12:24 AM Mar 2019

ADVOCATE SAYS PAST ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE SIDED MORE WITH SAUDIS THAN 9/11 FAMILIES

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3/11/2019

An advocate for 9/11 families told Hill.TV in an interview that aired Monday on "Rising" that past U.S. administrations have sided more with the Saudi government than the families of victims despite links between Riyadh and the attacks nearly 20 years ago.

"They've all handled it the same," Terry Strada, the national chairwoman of 9/11 Families and Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism, told co-host Krystal Ball last week. "They have sided with the Saudis more than they have sided with the 9/11 families."

"However, President Trump has not done anything to my knowledge that has hurt us. He actually supported the bill that we had to enact, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, right when he was being elected as president," she continued.

"But Democrat, Republican, past administrations, they usually side with the Saudis," she said. "Obama, he vetoed the bill that we needed to pass, and we came back and overrode his veto. Unanimously we passed it out of the Senate, unanimously out of the House, and then we came back with a veto override, his one and only veto override of his entire presidency."

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/433511-advocate-says-past-administrations-have-sided-more-with-saudis-than-9-11

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ADVOCATE SAYS PAST ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE SIDED MORE WITH SAUDIS THAN 9/11 FAMILIES (Original Post) JonLP24 Mar 2019 OP
Its all about keeping that sweet, sweet crude flowing Jake Stern Mar 2019 #1

Jake Stern

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1. Its all about keeping that sweet, sweet crude flowing
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 01:27 AM
Mar 2019

Kissing Saudi ass is almost a presidential rite of passage.

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