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ck4829

(35,091 posts)
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 07:58 AM Feb 2019

House Dems reveal new info on a shady White House plan to sell nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia

A new report from House Democrats reveals disturbing new details about a secretive effort by top Trump administration officials to sell sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — in defiance of at least some of the nation’s ethics statutes.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Tuesday released a report — accompanied by a tranche of internal White House emails — detailing a scheme spearheaded by now-disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to sell technology for roughly 40 nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia.

The plan was already known due to previous reporting by the Wall Street Journal, for example, but the Democrats’ report does add more insight into what was happening behind the scenes to push the proposal through.

The effort was part of a broader Middle East economic development plan Flynn began putting together before Trump’s inauguration while he was serving as an adviser to Trump’s campaign and transition team.

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/2/19/18231812/saudi-arabia-nuclear-flynn-trump-democrats

Draining the ethics.

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House Dems reveal new info on a shady White House plan to sell nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia (Original Post) ck4829 Feb 2019 OP
This is chilling....and it also seems to involve Russia too being the ones who would be building it Pachamama Feb 2019 #1
Kushner's Fingerprints Are All Over This Me. Feb 2019 #2
I just saw that Cha Feb 2019 #3
Post removed Post removed Feb 2019 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Dennis Donovan Feb 2019 #5
This is treasonous, period. And I really, really babylonsister Feb 2019 #6
It certainly violates the anti-nuclear proliferation Act watoos Feb 2019 #8
I keep hearing how Iran, watoos Feb 2019 #7
How is this not considered Espionage? AwakeAtLast Feb 2019 #9
Dang, that's a good question. ck4829 Feb 2019 #10

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
1. This is chilling....and it also seems to involve Russia too being the ones who would be building it
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 08:02 AM
Feb 2019

I actually feel sick when I read this and it tells me the sellout and profiteering from Trump and his cabal is much worse than any of us thought....

No wonder they love Saudi Arabia so much....and also are so eager to not only embrace them, ignore brutal murders and dismemberments, but WHY they also wanted to go against Iran and pull out of the deal....



Nuclear Saudi Arabia? Is THIS the Mid East Peace Plan that Jared Kushner put together?

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babylonsister

(171,096 posts)
6. This is treasonous, period. And I really, really
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 08:15 AM
Feb 2019

look forward to finding out Kushner was a part of this. He's in SA all the time. I imagine he's connected somehow.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
8. It certainly violates the anti-nuclear proliferation Act
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 08:24 AM
Feb 2019

that was signed in the 1950's.

I mean if people are hung up on the word treason because we are supposed to be at war, then at the very least this is a crime of espionage. It certainly fits the dictionary definition of treason. That weasel Kushner needs to room with Bubba in a federal prison.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
7. I keep hearing how Iran,
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 08:20 AM
Feb 2019

is the world's #1 terrorist country. I keep hearing how SA is our friend. SA has Madrassas all over the world, Iran doesn't.

After we give SA nuclear weapons why not open up flight schools in America and train them how to take off jumbo jets? We can save money since we don't have to teach them how to land planes.

I wonder how much money SA is paying Trump and Kushner to give them nukes?

This is yet another example of how Trump is unfit to perform the duties of president of the United States. A Democratic president would have been impeached a year ago. We don't need Mueller's report there is enough out there now to warrant impeachment.

If the Senate fails to convict him then they need to be called traitors every freaking day until election day.

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