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spanone

(135,632 posts)
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 12:15 AM Jun 2019

the president of the united states

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday shrugged off the brutal dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, just days after a United Nations report described how a team of Saudi assassins called Mr. Khashoggi a “sacrificial animal” before his murder.

The U.N. report urged an F.B.I. investigation into the slaying. But in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mr. Trump said the episode had already been thoroughly investigated. He said the Middle East is “a vicious, hostile place” and noted that Saudi Arabia is an important trading partner with the United States.

“I only say they spend $400 to $450 billion over a period of time, all money, all jobs, buying equipment,” the president told Chuck Todd, the show’s moderator. “I’m not like a fool that says, ‘We don’t want to do business with them.’ And by the way, if they don’t do business with us, you know what they do? They’ll do business with the Russians or with the Chinese.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/us/politics/trump-khashoggi-killing-saudi-arabia.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage



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the president of the united states (Original Post) spanone Jun 2019 OP
one suspects this logic has dictated US foreign policy more than once pre-trump nt msongs Jun 2019 #1
Indeed democrank Jun 2019 #2
Yep, he's that stupid uponit7771 Jun 2019 #9
Ya gotta admire that kind of candor imo... BadGimp Jun 2019 #3
he knows nobody is gonna do anything to stop him nt msongs Jun 2019 #4
This SHRED Jun 2019 #5
No I don't have to admire it. lunatica Jun 2019 #8
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Thanks! lunatica Jun 2019 #12
He disgusts me utterly. trusty elf Jun 2019 #6
I wonder if his reaction would be different if it had been Ivanka who had been butchered? LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2019 #7
POS! SammyWinstonJack Jun 2019 #10

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
8. No I don't have to admire it.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 03:58 AM
Jun 2019

And I don’t. He thinks we’re fools and that’s why he talks that way.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
12. Thanks!
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 02:15 PM
Jun 2019

Trump doesn’t show candor. He blabs outrageous lies. He and honesty don’t know each other.

7. I wonder if his reaction would be different if it had been Ivanka who had been butchered?
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 03:20 AM
Jun 2019

Probably not. All Fat Donnie cares about is money -- specifically how he can get more out of Saudia Arabia and the American taxpayer.

BTW, I do not wish ill of any of Trump's children. They can't be blamed for who their sperm donor was. They could, however, have made better life choices as they became adults. I don't think being a narcissistic sociopath is hereditary.

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