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Trump Said Saudi Arabia Did 9/11 Now He's Visiting the Saudi's on Friday

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Trump, of course didn't mean the Saudi's really did 9/11. I think he meant that people who were born in Saudi Arabia carried out the 9/11 plot.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18...ow-hes-going-there-on-his-first-foreign-trip/

Trump, to put it mildly, is no stranger to the shameless U-turn. Still, the Trump Turnabout on Saudi Arabia — one of America’s closest allies since President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud aboard the USS Murphy in 1945 — is a true sight to behold. This weekend, Trump will arrive in Saudi Arabia for a bilateral summit with King Salman as well as a series of meetings with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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To be clear: Trump’s U-turn on Saudi Arabia has little to do with being moderated by the realities of high office or swayed by the Beltway’s foreign policy elites. Despite his bombastic campaign rhetoric, he never planned to go after the Saudis in office — even after publicly accusing them of murdering 3,000 Americans. Early on in the campaign, in 2015, a senior Arab diplomat told me, on condition of anonymity, that Trump had informed most of the Gulf governments, in private, that his anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric was “all for the campaign” and that it would be business as usual once he was elected (or, for that matter, defeated).

As ever, for Trump, it is always, above all else, about the bottom line — his bottom line. The Saudi-bashing Trump sold an entire floor of the Trump World Tower to the Saudis for $4.5 million in 2001. And would it surprise you to discover that Trump also registered eight companies tied to hotel interests in Saudi Arabia in the midst of his Saudi-bashing presidential campaign?

Of course not. Business is business. Trump is Trump. You might be repulsed by his deceitfulness … but you have to admire his chutzpah.
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This is consistent with my assessment of who Trump is as a person. The article says Trump told Arabian diplomats privately, that the anti-Muslim, anti-Arab rhetoric was, "all for the campaign". At any rate, Trump who may be faking, Islamaphobia, will be flying into a country that considers itself the birth place of Islam.

Hypocrisy unites them both. So too does their fear and loathing of the Iranians — the Saudis are busying dropping bombs and backing militants to push back Iranian influence in Yemen and Syria. The Trump administration, filled with Iran hawks, is on the verge of inking a series of arms deals with Riyadh worth more than $100 billion.
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Looks like they'll be discussing the terms of an arms deal, that will lead to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and prolonged chaos. You guys voted for a non-interventionist who said that "Islam hates us." And he's selling on of the most right wing theocratic Islamist governments in the world, 100 Billion dollars of arms. Why?
 
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Winston said:
Looks like they'll be discussing the terms of an arms deal, that will lead to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and prolonged chaos. You guys voted for a non-interventionist who said that "Islam hates us." And he's selling on of the most right wing theocratic Islamist governments in the world, 100 Billion dollars of arms. Why?
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Nobody knew foreign policy could be so complicated.
 
radioman said:
Nobody knew foreign policy could be so complicated.
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I hope someone asks him what the difference between a Sunni and a Shia is.
 
of course it's also why his travel ban list didn't include Saudi. There goes his hopes of winning that lawsuit
 
chromium said:
of course it's also why his travel ban list didn't include Saudi. There goes his hopes of winning that lawsuit
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It's all about the $$$.
 
I recall someone fleeing a crisis at home to go to Saudi Arabia.... His name's on the tip of my tongue....


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