GoTrump
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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Well played.
Mr. niteowl77
Another great move by Trump!
He’s acting more thoughtfully presidential than anyone.
“Have we ever had a comparatively rich president, if he were to get elected?”
George Washington.
Thomas Jefferson.
James Madison.
Andrew Jackson.
Teddy Roosevelt.
Herbert Hoover.
Franklin Roosevelt.
Jack Kennedy.
‘Bout time we did this.
What is a PTB?
If Trump can break up the monopolies in the US, that'll drastically lower prices due to old fashioned competition...Something we haven't seen in ages...
And what would Trump do about oil the Refineries that the Saudis own, nationalize them? I am all for holding the Saudis accountable, but is this just more attractive talk from Trump that really hasn't a chance in reality?
How about those “boutique blends” that bubba jeff came up with? Are those still around, if so, those should be dumped as well. W should have done that among a ton of other things.
We have more oil under our feet than they do. Screw ‘em.
Jackson, Hoover, Madison, Jefferson, ESPECIALLY Jackson, I had no clue.
how do you guys know this stuff off of the top of your head?!
VOTE TRUMP ! !
About FREAKIN’ TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GoTrump
I noticed that gas prices went up 35 cents a gallon because of Saudi manipulation killing off the Fracking oil producers.
We need a President who will sign Keystone, Drill off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, back producing Clean Coal, Drill in Anwar, allow nuclear power like Europe does. Generate enough energy to make USA involvement in foreign and middle east problems a thing of the past.
We need to rebuild America , bring our companies overseas cash back home, bring manufacturing back with cheap energy.
Why all the bases all over the world almost 70 years after WWII ? And 30 years after the Berlin wall came down?
Trump is right we need to prune our foreign structure and rethink alliances. Begin with Turkey, they are bombing the Kurd not ISIS.
No more money for Abbas since he is part of Hamas. And all those EU country’s bent on destroy Israel like Sweden we need to boycott them like they boycott Israel. Israel isn’t the enemy, the Muzzies are. Israelis are not terrorists, in Sweden the rapists are Muzzies not Jews.
Yep. And that's because everyone else talks like a lawyer. Trump talks like most Americans think.
No need. We are self sustaining with our own crude.
I think he just thinks like the common man, which is what I like.
In addition, how about due to their horrible human rights record, which is comparable to that of Iran?
There was a news article last week about the Saudis (Saudi Aramco)and Shell ending a partnership in which they had a couple of refineries here in the US. The Saudis took control of a refinery that processes mostly imported oil.
It said they are interested in buying more refineries here in the US. What are the chances they try to use oil from the United States at these refineries, and why would we allow Saudi Aramco to have a refinery here in the first place? Crap like this has to stop.
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