VOTE TRUMP!
Posted on 03/26/2016 4:36:39 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump told the New York Times he would consider stopping U.S. oil purchases from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight Islamic State.
Trump’s comment on Friday was included in a lengthy foreign policy interview published by the newspaper on Saturday and came in response to a question about whether, if elected president, he would halt oil purchases from U.S. allies unless they provided on-the-ground forces against Islamic State.
“The answer is, probably yes,” Trump said, according to a transcript.
Trump has said the United States should be reimbursed by the countries it provides protection, even those with vast resources such as Saudi Arabia, a top oil exporter.
“And yet, without us, Saudi Arabia wouldn’t exist for very long,” Trump told the Times.
“… We’re not being reimbursed for the kind of tremendous service that we’re performing by protecting various countries. Now Saudi Arabia’s one of them.”
Trump also named in the interview retired Major General Gary Harrell, Major General Bert Mizusawa and retired Rear Admiral Charles Kubic as additional foreign policy advisors to the five named earlier this week who were criticized as obscure.
Trump has faced questions about his reluctance to reveal who was advising his campaign. He told the Times he was willing to rethink traditional U.S. alliances should he become president.
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Good.
Agreed. We should stop funding our enemies.
We should stop buying from the Saudis out of principle. We need to be energy independent, period.
The elite vested PTB are going to be PISSED at this kind of talk.
HOW ABOUT JUST BECAUSE THEY FUND TERROR, LIKELY 9/11!!
Great Idea!
Trump hits another one out of the park.
good.
Great idea. Just what we need - higher gas prices. That’ll show ‘em! /sarc
I’m for it.
I’d love to see our “friends” choke on their own oil.
Buy it when its cheap. Stop when it crosses a specified threshold. Let THEM worry about the economics of it.
Establishing energy independence would not only be a good thing in and of itself, but would also make it much harder for a big chunk of the bureaucracy to perpetuate itself.
That is true and that is my fear. They are very ruthless people that they will try to harm him.
you’re right.
Trump thinks like an average American should.
that’s it. That’s all it took to become the front runner.
actually care about the country more than money or power.
Have we ever had a comparatively rich president, if he were to get elected?
He doesn’t need anymore money. That’s a good thing
Great idea. When the House of Saud falls to Islamic extremists, life will be good again. I can’t imagine what extremist would do with billions of dollars. Probably they will use it for humanitarian projects.
The ONLY thing that Trump would have to do is trash the Low-sulfur requirement, that FORCES American Companies to import Saudi/Venezuelean oil instead of using American oil for gasoline.
End of Saudi oil purchases....
He must have missed yet another memo.
“Have we ever had a comparatively rich president, if he were to get elected?
He doesn’t need anymore money. That’s a good thing”
Theodore Roosevelt.
And Trump has OBVIOUSLY read his book, and studied his campaign.
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