Saudi Arabia clarifies Trump tweet: No new Saudi pledges to rebuild Syria

[DonViejo]

Source: CNBC



PUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO | UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Tom DiChristopher
@TDICHRISTOPHER

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President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday that Saudi Arabia has agreed to spend the “necessary money” to help rebuild Syria.

The tweet briefly raised questions about whether the White House has secured new commitments from the kingdom.

An official at the Saudi embassy in Washington confirmed the kingdom has not made any major new financial pledges since August.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Saudi Arabia “has now agreed to spend the necessary money” for Syria’s reconstruction, briefly raising questions about whether the White House had secured additional funding from Riyadh to rebuild the war-ravaged nation.

It turns out that Trump, under fire for suddenly announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, was highlighting a commitment that the Saudis made several months ago.

Link to tweet

An official at the Saudi embassy in Washington told CNBC that the kingdom has not made any major new financial pledge to Syria since August. That is when the State Department announced that Saudi Arabia had committed $100 million to a fund to stabilize areas of Syria liberated from ISIS militants by a U.S.-led coalition.

“The Kingdom is a major contributor to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, flying the second highest number of sorties against ISIS in Syria, as well as, donating millions of dollars for relief efforts there,” a Saudi embassy official told CNBC in an email on Tuesday.


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[underpants]

1. 115 miles of wall?

Maybe he got his stories mixed up

[shanny]

2. 100 million, pledged months ago. To "stabilize" not rebuild.

How generous.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Such a lieing sack of Sh*t.

[RKP5637]

4. This ass is such a confused mess plus a chronic liar. Can't believe the GOP supports this ass.

[Maeve]

5. Sooooo....he LIED again

Another day, another batch of lies....( I've seen estimates from 5 to 30 per day)

[flibbitygiblets]

6. when your wing-man leaves you hanging

WOMP WOMP

Feels like rump's overlords are kinda trolling him now

[cstanleytech]

7. I am pretty much convinced his lying is meant to provide a smoke screen for him

not from us but from his base because they are (channeling my inner Samuel L Jackson) gullible motherfuckers that they will not be able to tell the truth from the lies.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. THIS

[keithbvadu2]

13. Gullible?

[cstanleytech]

15. Yes gullible because they mainly are thinking that what hes doing is making america great again.

Its completely stupid on their part but it is what it is.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Yep! I was agreeing with you.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. It never matters that every tweet is a ALL OUT LIE...

his willfully ignorant base believes every word of it.

[UpInArms]

10. Why does he still have a Twitter account?

🤦🏽‍♀️

[djacq]

11. Saudi Arabia called Trump a LIAR!

With friends like that...

[Just a Weirdo]

12. I'm all out of fucks to give...

Trump lied to the world. I'm sure the Kingdom will ask Iraq to detain Trump and send him to SA.

[Ramsey Barner]

14. Forget "rebuilding their neighbors"!

If we survive Trump, we're going to need their money to help rebuild the US!

"Isn’t it nice when immensely wealthy countries help rebuild their neighbors rather than a Great Country, the U.S. ...?"

(Trump is THE BEST at losing track of antecedents.)