There were nineteen hijackers on 9/11. Fifteen were from Saudi Arabia.
This came to mind when I was reading Jamess' excellent diary: About that 'Back-room' Saudi Nuclear Transfer … revealing the wealthy interests trying to get their piece of the Saudi nuke deal.
This is a natural issue for Democrats to use against the Trump Kleptocracy and the Republicans who aid and abet it.
9/11 was co-opted and exploited by the Bush administration, which started the disastrous Iraq war using two lies:
(1) Iraq was the main culprit for 9/11 (with Cheney using torture to try to prove that lie); and
(2) Iraq was developing WMD including nukes.
And now, we have the bitter irony of Trump reversing these lies into a terrible truth:
Trump wants to give potential nukes to the country with the actual 9/11 culprits.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump repeatedly demonized Saudi Arabia, saying on numerous occasions that Saudi Arabia was the country behind the 9/11 attacks, and railing against their murderous homophobia, screaming about how they were throwing gays off buildings. That was because it helped his constant Hillary demonizing, in this case the Clinton Foundation’s accepting donations from the Kingdom.
Since the election, of course, he’s MBS’s BFF, touching strange globes with him and ignoring murder by bone saw.
Trump is a dire threat in many ways — fundamental rights, Russia-centric foreign policy, climate change hostility. Nukes to MBS is one way that hasn’t gotten enough attention.
Republicans manipulate fear through lying. Nukes to SA is a truth really to be afraid of. It’s not demagoguery to warn about an actual threat, and the greed that motivates it.
So Democrats and liberal pundits. Step up and spread the word.
Trump is selling nukes to the 9/11 hijackers’ country.
For the benefit of his greedy friends.