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One of Trump’s early “crowning achievements” was selling “ tanks, fighter jets, combat ships and missile defense” to Saudi Arabia — to protect themselves from other 3rd-party armed threats in the region.
Trump was all too eager to tap that Oil Cash Flow market … being the money hound that he is.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a nearly $110 billion defense deal with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Saturday, signaling the United States' renewed commitment to its alliance with the Gulf kingdom and desire to bolster its counterterrorism partnership.
The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser. He shocked a high-level Saudi delegation earlier this month when he personally called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and asked if she would cut the price of a sophisticated missile detection system, according to a source with knowledge of the call.
Pressured to finalize a massive $100-plus billion arms deal in the two weeks leading up to Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, Kushner hoped to maneuver a discount on Lockheed's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system during the Saudis' visit to the White House on May 1 — a request that Hewson said she would look into at the time.
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Unfortunately for the hapless, conniving millionaire, who stumbled into a presidency — his previous career of usurping other people’s money, did not prepare him in: HOW TO BE PRESIDENTIAL …
You know, how to Stand up for American Principles ...
TRUMP’S NOT GONNA LET A LITTLE MURDER GET IN THE WAY OF HIS $110 BILLION ARMS DEAL
by Bess Levin, VanityFair — Oct 11, 2018
A new report in The Washington Post, citing U.S. intelligence intercepts, appears to confirm what is looking increasingly likely: that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the operation to lure journalist Jamal Khashoggi from his home in Virginia to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, and had him murdered. Turkish security officials told The New York Times that they believe he was “dismembered . . . with a bone saw” by a 15-person team, dispatched from Saudi Arabia to make the vociferous critic of Salman’s government disappear. It is, in other words, not a good look for the so-called “reformer” prince, whose country has denied killing Khashoggi, but is not trying particularly hard to be convincing. Nor is it a good look for Donald Trump and Jared Kushner, who don’t seem eager to terminate a chummy relationship with the crown prince over a credible murder allegation. At least not just yet.
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So the news that Saudi Arabia likely murdered a journalist who spoke critically of the crown prince’s regime has put Kushner in, as the Times puts it, an “extremely awkward position”! At first, Kushner and the White House chose to stay silent on the matter, like friends of Brett Kavanaugh refusing to dignify allegations of their pal being a fall-down drunk with a sexual-predator problem. But as the evidence kept piling up, it was clear they had to at least feign some level of concern, which apparently involved calling up M.B.S. and being like, “Hey, did you kill this guy? Nope? O.K., works for us!”
On Tuesday, the White House said, Mr. Kushner and John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, spoke to Prince Mohammed by phone about Mr. Khashoggi’s disappearance. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also called him.
“In both calls, they asked for more details and for the Saudi government to be transparent in the investigation process,” said the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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After spending a rabble-rousing two years calling opposing Journalists (like at the Washington Post) — The Enemy of The People — it seems like his Billion-dollar-benefactors in Saudi Arabia: GOT THE Trump MESSAGE.
Unfortunately for the heartless, fraud of Billionaire, who cheated his way into a presidency — his previous career of bullying and conning other people, did not prepare him in: HOW TO BE PRESIDENTIAL …
You know, like how to act like a Human being ...
Trump Calls Relations With Saudi Arabia ‘Excellent,’ While Congress Is Incensed
by Edward Wong, Eric Schmitt and Eileen Sullivan, NYTimes — Oct. 11, 2018
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“The Saudis will keep killing civilians and journalists as long as we keep arming and assisting them,” Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, said on Twitter on Thursday. “The President should immediately halt arms sales and military support to Saudi Arabia.”
But Mr. Trump quickly made clear he would not.
“What good does that do us?” Mr. Trump asked, speaking to reporters midday in the Oval Office.
“I would not be in favor of stopping a country from spending $110 billion — which is an all-time record — and letting Russia have that money and letting China have that money,” Mr. Trump said, referring to an arms deal with the Saudis, brokered last year, that the president has said will lead to new American jobs.
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Maybe this will finally be Trump’s political Waterloo?
Perhaps Trump’s ongoing flustered support of the blatant, torturous murder of American Journalists — will finally be that “red line” that the Republican “enablers” in Congress — JUST WILL NOT CROSS ???
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Then again, Perhaps Not.
It is the Congress afterall — currently run by the Party without Principles.
After all they got to get their “Tax Cuts” etc … Whatever the cost.
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This atrocity shall not stand.
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