So Trump basically said today

[brettdale]

"If you have oil, commit any crime you want"

[Gothmog]

1. You are unfortuantely correct

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[SCantiGOP]

22. I don't think it's anout oil

And I certainly don’t think it’s about a bogus multi-billion dollar arms deal.
Same as with Russia, Trump is either compromised or owned by the Saudis.
If they had been giving and laundering millions of dollars to Trump over the years, exposing that would end Trump but no one could really do anything to the Saudis.

[Blue Owl]

2. Oil -- more precious than a human life

[sheshe2]

3. Correct.

"It is what it is."

[Gothmog]

4. "It's a total gut-punch to American values"

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[amywalk]

9. I don't understand why someone doesn't drop a dime on him.

He constantly criticises the intelligence community. You would think they have a shiff load of dirty laundry that could stand a little airing.

[gratuitous]

20. Trump led off his tweet exonerating the Saudis with "America First!"

Hard to see how supporting dictators who dismember their critics as being consistent with American values, but as Trump hastens to point out, he's the president and nobody else is.

Maybe it's time for a new president, one who doesn't think brutally murdering someone is just another expression of statecraft.

[exboyfil]

5. Including slaughtering 3000 Americans

And destroying billions of dollars of infrastructure and 10s of billions of economic.activity.

[irisblue]

12. There is a good bit of overlap with Shrub

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1872229_1872230_1872236,00.html

"After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Bush didn't call for sacrifice. He called for shopping. "Get down to Disney World in Florida," he said. "Take your families and enjoy life, the way we want it to be enjoyed." Taken on its own, this wasn't such a horrible sentiment. But Boston University historian Andrew Bacevich has made a convincing case that it was part of a broader pattern of encouraging financial irresponsibility. "Bush seems to have calculated — cynically but correctly — that prolonging the credit-fueled consumer binge could help keep complaints about his performance as Commander in Chief from becoming more than a nuisance," Bacevich wrote in the Washington Post in October. Now we're paying the bill."

[rusty quoin]

6. How low can we go. I thought we lost it with torture.

[Gothmog]

7. I have a suggestion for TIME Person of the Year: Jamal Khashoggi

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[Garrett78]

8. It's another iteration of Trump's "somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds."

Sure, intelligence officials are saying it's undoubtedly Putin/MbS, but it could be anyone. Translation: I have large sums of money at stake and a cult following to maintain with the help of obfuscation, so I'm going to pull random statements out of my ass. P.S. I'm an evil narcissist, and my predecessor would have been impeached for any one of a hundred criminal things I've done. Thank goodness I seem to be made of teflon.

[democratisphere]

10. "If you bail the drumpfs out of Bankruptcy, anything goes!"

Always remember, roughly half of all Americans have very short memories. How convenient!

[kacekwl]

11. Or plane loads of $$$$$$$$$$$ to buy

our weapons to kill us.

[GulfCoast66]

13. That about sums it up.

Although I think it also has to do with plans the Trumps have to personally enrich themselves from Saudi money.

[bdamomma]

14. $$$$$$$

is all that matters to them. Jared and Donnie are raking in some big money.

And our journalists are sitting targets.

[brooklynite]

15. No he did not...

He said "If you have oil AND YOU SELL IT TO US CHEAPLY....."

[Takket]

16. A little more generic...

If I have financial interests that are tied to your financial interests, feel free to murder people.

He wouldn’t give a fuck about the cost of oil if he didn’t have millions tied up in SA

[AwakeAtLast]

17. So Iran is gonna be our new best friend

Right?

[Flaleftist]

18. Maybe if they start spending millions at Trump properties.

[Buckeyeblue]

19. He may need to live there some day

[onenote]

21. Yep. Apparently Hitler's big mistake was not having an arm's deal with the US

If he had, and we had a president like Trump....well, you get the idea.

[Gothmog]

23. Anyone but trump for Time person of the year

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