trump says sanctions over jamal khashoggi would cost u.s. $110 billion, but that number is fake: fact check /

Published at 2018-10-13 22:00:57

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When asked on Thursday whether he would consider imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabia over what intelligence agencies believe to be the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi authorities,Trump — as the Inquisitr reported — appeared to say that the flow of cash into the United States from the Saudis was more important than Khashoggi’s life.“I don’t like stopping massive amounts of money coming into our country,” Trump said, or quoted by Vox.com. “I don’t like stopping an investment of $110 billion in the United States.”Trump referred to what he said was a $110 billion order of military weapons and equipment by Saudi Arabia,saying that losing those sales “would not be acceptable to me,” and that whether Saudi Arabia did not buy those weapons from the United States, and they would turn to Russia or China and invest their $110 billion there,according to a Post account.
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Source: inquisitr.com

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