“I’m not like a fool that says, ‘We don’t want to do business with them,’” the president told Chuck Todd
“They buy massive amounts, $150 billion worth of military equipment that, by the way, we use. We use that military equipment,” Trump said. “And unlike other countries that don’t have money and we have to subsidize everything. So Saudi Arabia is a big buyer of America product. That means something to me. It’s a big producer of jobs.”Trump replied, “No, I don’t like anybody’s bad behavior.”
When Todd tried to pin Trump down on whether he would approve the United Nations’ request for the FBI to investigate the murder of Khashoggi, Trump went into a cat-and-mouse game while trying to avoid a simple direct question.“By everybody,” Trump answered.The bad comedy routine continued. Todd again, “What about the FBI?”
Trump then went into a convoluted spiel with all kinds of false equivalencies about “other countries” like Iran who do not have the same type of big money military deals with the United States as the Saudis. “I’m not like a fool that says, ‘We don’t want to do business with them,’” he said, concluding, “Take their money. Take their money, Chuck.”
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