Donald Trump is a puppet of Saudi Arabia

Padawanbater2

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The Insane Gifts Saudi Arabia Gave President Trump

The gifts range from the regal (“Artwork featuring picture of President Trump”) to the martial (multiple swords, daggers, leather ammo holders), to the baroque (cheetah fur robes).

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for accepting money from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, complaining during one of the debates, “These are people that kill women and treat women horribly and yet you take their money.”

That was, of course, before he made his first foreign visit as president to Saudi Arabia—and accepted dozens of gifts from the kingdom. In fact, during Trump’s visit, the White House accepted at least 83 separate gifts from Saudi Arabia, according to a document The Daily Beast has obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department.
 
Padawanbater2

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Fogdog said:
Gasp

You mean to say that Trump is a hypocrite?
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Why don't we view Saudi Arabia as culpable in effecting American policy as we do Russia?

If this list were about Russia, people would be talking about impeachment. Why not when it's about Saudi Arabia?

Obama kept close ties with Saudi Arabia, too. It seems to be an American thing
 
Unclebaldrick

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Padawanbater2 said:
The Insane Gifts Saudi Arabia Gave President Trump

The gifts range from the regal (“Artwork featuring picture of President Trump”) to the martial (multiple swords, daggers, leather ammo holders), to the baroque (cheetah fur robes).

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for accepting money from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, complaining during one of the debates, “These are people that kill women and treat women horribly and yet you take their money.”

That was, of course, before he made his first foreign visit as president to Saudi Arabia—and accepted dozens of gifts from the kingdom. In fact, during Trump’s visit, the White House accepted at least 83 separate gifts from Saudi Arabia, according to a document The Daily Beast has obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department.
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I heard that they sent him a black-velvet oil painting of a heavily muscled, normal hand-sized Trump wrestling a bull down by it's horns. Classy. Real gold frame too.
 
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Fogdog

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Padawanbater2 said:
Why don't we view Saudi Arabia as culpable in effecting American policy as we do Russia?

If this list were about Russia, people would be talking about impeachment. Why not when it's about Saudi Arabia?

Obama kept close ties with Saudi Arabia, too. It seems to be an American thing
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Totally agree that the US is behaving criminally in that area of the world.

In the US, the media are complicit by not reporting on it. This is one area where US policy remains consistent since the middle of the 1950's.

This link from abandonconflict does a good job of providing a perspective completely missing from US media. It does not, however, call what we do hypocrisy. He basically calls the silence about what we are doing there a propaganda war. Highlight the Syrian refugee crisis to justify even more violence while we ignore an equally dire and US caused set of circumstances for the people of Yemen. He also uses this topic to explain his viewpoint that US leftists and progressives aren't any better than anybody else when it comes to US international polices of aggression. He singles out Sanders bur really is pointing at the so called left and progressives in the US..

edit: https://www.ajamubaraka.com/the-yemen-tragedy-and-the-ongoing-crisis-of-the-left-in-the-united-states

I really do think that the author is right in that white racism is on display here.
 
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Padawanbater2

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Unclebaldrick said:
I heard that they sent him a black-velvet oil painting of a heavily muscled, normal hand-sized Trump wrestling a bull down by it's horns. Classy. Real gold frame too.
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Fogdog said:
Totally agree that the US is behaving criminally in that area of the world.

In the US, the media are complicit by not reporting on it. This is one area where US policy remains consistent since the middle of the 1950's.

This link from abandonconflict does a good job of providing a perspective completely missing from US media. It does not, however, call what we do hypocrisy. He basically calls the silence about what we are doing there a propaganda war. Highlight the Syrian refugee crisis to justify even more violence while we ignore an equally dire and US caused set of circumstances for the people of Yemen. He also uses this topic to explain his viewpoint that US leftists and progressives aren't any better than anybody else when it comes to US international polices of aggression. He singles out Sanders bur really is pointing at the so called left and progressives in the US..

I really do think that the author is right in that white racism is on display here.
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What link?
 
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