Discussion: NYT: Kushner Asked Lockheed CEO To Cut Better Arms Deal For Saudi Arabia

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No wonder Donald likes him so much, a corrupt businessman through and through, after his own ā€œheartā€.

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So Lockheed has a monopoly position, and Kushner asks the AMERICAN company to forego profits so the Saudi’s will be happier and he can buy favor? That’s MAGA how?

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Jesus Christ. WTF.

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Why?

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Oh and that new Trump Riyadh Tower we were thinking about - any ideas on that?

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Read the entire article, which can be summarized this way. This administration is not opposed to more war in the Middle East and will do what it can to facilitate it.

Saudi officials have expressed delight at Mr. Trump’s tough rhetoric on Iran. This White House is viewed as more sympathetic to the military campaign that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are carrying out against the Houthis, Iranian-backed rebels who are waging an insurgency in neighboring Yemen.

The Obama administration put a hold on precision-guided munitions it had agreed to sell the Saudis out of fear that they would be used to bomb civilians in Yemen. The Trump administration has freed up those weapons, which are part of the $110 billion package.

Trump is not expected to raise human rights concerns with the Saudis, in keeping with his approach to strongmen in Turkey, Egypt, China and the Philippines.

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There is nothing good to be said about any of these people.

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Trump: Now when we work with Muslims, liberals hate that as well. Liberals are the new Nazis.

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Yep. The regime continues to leave like a sieve.

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ā€œPresident Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior [grift] adviser, Jared Kushner,ā€

FIFY

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Does anyone remember how Trump bashed Hillary because she did a deal with the Saudis on selling them weapons? Wow, now Trump want kudos for selling weapons to the Saudi’s. The gall of Trump. Everything bad Trump said about Hillary, is not even close to the evil things Trump is doing.

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It wasn’t about America, but keeping the Saudi’s happy so Trump can get those hotels and golf clubs built. Also, remember that Trump’s Muslim travel ban did not have Saudi Arabia on the list. Does anyone believe that was just a coincidence?

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I’m sure we can trust the Saudi royal family and our own homegrown princeling to conduct business in a fair and upright way.

True story: I knew a woman who was a higher-up in fundraising for a major university. They had a whole chunk of their staff that spent its time keeping up with what the Saudi royals were doing so when they called to beg for money they could ask if little Noura was over her cold yet.

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Is anyone looking into the extended Trump/Kushner families and their vast network of shell corps to establish their position in Lockheed? And when those stock purchases occurred? And their positions in other companies wed to the military industrial complex?

Probably impossible to find all of their holdings but this organized crime family doesn’t do anything if there isn’t money in it for them.

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At least there’s a special counsel now. God only knows the crap these people have pulled just in the first five months.

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If Obama beat down a US company on price to help the Saudis, he’d be called a terrorist.

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Nailed it.

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I do not care for ad hominem attacks- but why do I think all of Trump’s people look like they’re out of their SS uniforms? They all carry that whiff of the beast.

And another damn thing- this wretch wanted an American company to cut its profits just so Trump could look good on a trip overseas. America First? What a fookin’ joke.

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If I’m Lockheed, I want that story out in public so it doesn’t come out later in a more inopportune moment and make us look like collaborators in this ā€˜deal’.

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