| | | OOPS! BUSTED: Trump says he has no Saudi business interests — here’s a 2015 video of him bragging about Saudi deals
BRAD REED
16 OCT 2018 AT 11:18 ET
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Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona ( Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent out a tweet defensively insisting that he has no business interests with anyone in Saudi Arabia — but a video of him on the campaign trail in 2015 shows otherwise.
“For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter),” the president wrote on Twitter. “Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!”
Donald J. Trump
?@realDonaldTrump
For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!
6:15 AM - Oct 16, 2018
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But Robert Maguire, the research director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has dug up a video of Trump bragging about wealthy Saudis who put money into his properties.
“Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them,” Trump said during a 2015 rally. “They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”
Robert Maguire
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Trump says he has no financial interests with the Saudis, which is funny because there's literally a video of him explaining his financial interests with the Saudis.
6:35 AM - Oct 16, 2018
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Additionally, documents obtained by the Washington Post earlier this month showed that Saudi money has been pouring into flagship Trump hotels that had been experiencing steep declines in revenues ever since Trump launched his political career three years ago. |
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