Posted on 07/12/2022 11:12:20 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
h4>LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former President Donald Trump ripped current President Joe Biden for selling nearly a million barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese company linked to his son Hunter Biden, calling the move “terrible” in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News here on Friday night.
The revelation that Biden sold oil from the official United States reserves to foreign countries, “one of which is China,” as Trump noted in the interview, rocked the news last week, leading several Republicans to demand an investigation into what happened. Trump had rebuilt the supply in the United States reserves for the first time in decades, and then Biden, during a shortage of oil where the price is at or near record highs, turned around and sold it foreign countries, something Trump called “incredible.”
“I think the whole thing is incredible,” Trump told Breitbart News. “I built up the reserves—75 million barrels of oil. We filled it up. It’s the first time in decades that that was loaded up to the top. We did it when oil was very cheap. I said this would be the time. I said ‘tell me about the reserves,’ and they told me and in about two seconds we made a big order for very little money. Now it’s being given away to China and other countries. I think it’s terrible.”
Asked if it is a scandal worthy of investigation, Trump said he consider it “certainly strange” that Biden would give American oil from the nation’s reserves to China.
“I don’t know. It’s certainly strange to be giving to, of all countries, China,” Trump said. “Now, they’re getting a lot of oil from Iran and other places. They should have no shortage. When I was president, I didn’t allow China ”
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Biden apologist Glenn Kessler at The Washingsnot Pest has already been trundled out to defuse this issue!
Terrible? Try Treason.
Another Biden @sslamprey...
Trump needs a thesaurus.
Probably illegal, too...
Wonder if they were getting market price or discounting it?
File under "questions that jernalists aren't interested in"...
IMPEACH BRANDON!!
Wonder if they were getting market price or discounting it?
File under “questions that jernalists aren’t interested in”...
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haha
It would sound worse if it was 42,000,000 gallons of oil instead of 1 million barrels. Just a little creative usage of measurement conversions.
I still don’t know if people like Tucker Carlson and Trump really don’t know how this works, or if they are pretending not to know how it works and assuming the people that listen to them really don’t know
Either way that’s not how it works haha, when the oil is released onto the market it goes to the highest bidder and is sold by private companies
The scandal is worthy of investigation nobody knows how many deals he had with them over the last 50 years.
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