Trump: Saudi Arabia Is One of the Biggest Investors But That’s ‘No Excuse Whatsoever’ for What Happened

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TRUMP: "I want to see the facts first. Saudi Arabia has been a really great ally, one of the biggest investors, maybe the biggest investor in our country. They are doing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investments, and, you know, so many jobs. Thousands and thousands of jobs. And if you look at the other side, Iran, you look at what they have done to people, vicious, horrible. And that’s no excuse for what happened with Saudi Arabia. No excuse whatsoever. But you take a look. It’s a rough part of the world. It’s a nasty place. It a nasty part of the world. But if what happened happened, and if the facts check out, it’s something that’s very bad. At the same time, they have been a very good ally of ours. They have been helping us a lot with respect to Israel. They have been funding a lot of things. I will tell you that Russia and China would love to have that military order. I mean, I can say it to my Democrat friends, too. I mean, they would love — this is $110 billion worth of military. And Russia would pick that up very quickly and China would pick it up very quickly. And France would pick it up very quickly. France makes a lot of military equipment. It’s very competitive market. I did a great job when I sold them on it. That’s why I went to Saudi Arabia first. I went to Saudi Arabia on the basis that they would buy hundreds of billions — many billions of dollars worth of things and the ultimate number is around $450 billion. $110 billion for military. $450 billion. I think that’s over 1 million jobs. 1 million to over 1 million jobs. So we do that, we’re just hurting ourselves. We’re just hurting ourselves. And I know that from a certain standpoint, you could also say, well, it doesn’t matter. Because it is a terrible thing. But we would be really hurting ourselves. We would be hurting our companies, we would be hurting our jobs. And so we’ll see what happens. But I should have a pretty good report in a couple of seconds. I should have a pretty good report very soon."