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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (228091)	3/3/2022 3:14:19 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364304

There is no proof it actually happened that I'm aware of. What didn't happen? No, I don't think he ever rented out our military. We would know if he had. I doubt that we would even have a accounting mechanism to handle the transaction. But did he mention doing so? I know I heard him although I don't recall the context. But I found this easily: ...He said last week that Saudi Arabia would be footing the bill to support the additional American troops he plans to send there. “Are you ready?” he asked reporters outside the White House. “Saudi Arabia at my request has agreed to pay us for everything we are doing. That is a first. Saudi Arabia, and other countries soon now, but Saudi Arabia has agreed to pay us for everything we are doing to help them, and we appreciate that. Trump was responding to a question about the recently announced deployment to Saudi Arabia of a small number of military personnel, aircraft and air defense capabilities.... cnn.com So he mentioned it at least once.