This kicked off a flood of vitriol over a situation in which high-bidding countries could potentially use American soldiers as mercenaries regardless of those nations’ ideologies.
Some questioned Saudi Arabia‘s worthiness due to the Saudi link to the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018.
Some pointed 15 of 19 of the September 11, 2001 hijackers were Saudis.
Others inquired about where the Saudi $1 billion even is.
Pimping the military to foreign nations is nothing new to Donald Trump.
David Fahrenthold and Jonathan O’Connell reported in The Washington Post on December 5, 2018, lobbyists representing the Saudi Arabian government reserved 500 rooms at Trump’s D.C. hotel within a month of the 2016 presidential election, for which they paid more than $270,000.
In January 2016, Trump reveled in the controversy he created over a feud with Fox News that motivated him to skip a planned Iowa debate and alternatively hold a charity for veterans.
That event raised $2.8 million dollars.
However, according to documents filed with a recent lawsuit ordering the president pay two million dollars to settle a claim he used his theoretically eleemosynary now-defunct Donald J. Trump Foundation as a savings account for personal and political interests, no veterans ever received a penny of it.
It went instead toward the Trump campaign.
When our men and women in uniform are “hired guns,” what accountability do the countries they are fighting for have for soldiers’ well being?
We are simply supplanting their valuable population with ours.
What happened to Trump’s promise of ending “stupid wars“?
Like the other more than 15,000, it too was a lie.
