Trump Admits He Conspired to Raise Oil Prices

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Trump Admits He Conspired to Raise Oil Prices

June 12, 2023 at 12:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/12/trump-admits-he-conspired-to-raise-oil-prices/

"SNIP.......

There are obviously more important things on Donald Trump’s mind these days.

But it’s important not to overlook his claim made in Georgia over the weekend that he was responsible for raising oil prices.

Trump said he got onto a “three-way call” with Vladimir Putin and “the king of Saudi Arabia” — perhaps meaning Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — to urge them to cut oil production and drive up oil prices.

Said Trump: “I had to save the oil companies. They were all going to go bust.”

It’s a bizarre thing to brag about during a presidential campaign, but Trump may be preoccupied with more pressing matters.

.......SNIP"

[Beachnutt]

1. And the brainless magaloons applauded

him for it right ?

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Oil Companies Were "Going Bust"?

He's lying again.
The only year ExxonMobil shows a negative net income was 2020, because of the pandemic, the response to which he screwed up.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264120/net-income-of-exxon-mobil-since-2001/

[Igel]

4. You nailed it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/business/oil-prices-trump-russia-saudi-arabia/index.html

US oil prices soared as much as 35% to $27.39 a barrel after Trump said on Twitter that he hopes and expects Saudi Arabia and Russia will slash output by between 10 million and 15 million barrels per day. Crude closed with a surge of 25% to $25.32 a barrel. That exceeds the previous one-day record that was set exactly two weeks ago.

I mean, that's outrageous. $28/barrel.

[louis-t]

6. Then he claimed he filled the national oil reserve

which he didn't. When oil was trading at $10 a barrel would have been a good time. But he was golfing that week so.........

[ProfessorGAC]

11. An Error In Your Post

TFG wasn't golfing. He was CHEATING at golf!

[louis-t]

33. Haa!

[markodochartaigh]

14. There was a brief interval

at the beginning of the pandemic when oil prices went below 0 because there was no place to store oil already on tankers. That would have been ideal. Actually supporting a market in freefall by buying a commodity which no one else could store, and at the best possible price. The Art of The Deal! Instead the US got "the business".

[yardwork]

9. They might have told him that, though. He would believe it.

I hope Democrats make ads out of this admission.

[TheRealNorth]

3. MBS is a murderous thug....

Just read about how he came to power. He is 10 times more dangerous than Saddam Hussein ever was, and would be more so if he gets nukes.

[markodochartaigh]

15. Hussein, MBS, Pahlavi, Khomeini

The US has a habit of helping bloodthirsty authoritarian leaders in the region.

[Sneederbunk]

21. MBS is not the king of Saudi Arabia.

[wryter2000]

24. Trump would think he is

Isn't the king incapacitated and MBS has to rule for him?

[TheRealNorth]

28. You don't have to be the head of state to have the real power.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Bush n Cheney did same thing.

Except they killed a million people in the process.

[live love laugh]

7. It's not bizarre it's attention grabbing ... he's trying to control the narrative.

[Trust_Reality]

10. Raising oil prices

Good for Putin, bad for Biden and the American people.
That's Trump.

[Joinfortmill]

12. He always inadvertently tells the truth

[wryter2000]

23. Cesca's law

Trump always makes things worse for Trump.

[Joinfortmill]

29. 😁

[sakabatou]

13. Not surprised.

[ShazzieB]

16. So those high gas prices the MAGA crowd blamed on Biden...

...were really Trump’s fault? That figures!

[Johonny]

17. So high gas prices were his fault

I did that

[f_townsend]

19. Any prospective TV and radio ads against Trump write themselves with this information n/t

[C Moon]

20. Perhaps that's going to be his defense: Sure I broke the law, but I had to.

[wryter2000]

22. I see a TV ad in his future

Grab that clip and broadcast it far and wide.

Remember the media breathlessly claiming gas prices would sink Biden's popularity and therefore totally screw the Dems in the 2022 elections?

[speak easy]

25. Trump got a three way with Vladimir Putin and MBS?

[GreenWave]

26. My lying Jen Keaggins said she would fix oil prices.

I hope she is a 1 and done.

[Thunderbeast]

27. When was this call?

[republianmushroom]

30. Part of the pay back to the Saudis for the 2 billion ?

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Plan: raise oil prices and

blame Biden if he lost the election.

[Blue Owl]

32. A three-way call with Vladdy and the Prince?

Sounds like the Espionage-a-Trois he's always fantasized about...

[OldBaldy1701E]

34. "Said Trump: "I had to save the oil companies. They were all going to go bust." "

We should have been using more agriculturally based fuels anyway. It was the greed of the oil companies that put us here. Screw them with a non-lubed pole (since they have their own lube anyway).