Speaker 1: So today Trump met with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad
Ben Salmon NBS and just when you thought that things
couldn't get worse, well they did. Today's presser. It reminded
me of Trump's relationship with Satan in the animation of
South Park, literally kissing the foot and asking for compliments
from someone who is known as being corrupt. Welcome back
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Trump claimed that he's proud of Ben Salmon for the
work that he's done on human rights, really human rights
Saudi Arabia. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: I'm very proud of the job he's done.
Speaker 3: What he's done is incredible in terms of human rights
and everything else. And he's the Crown Prince, future king,
and I just want to pay my greatest respect to
your father King, who is an amazing man.
Speaker 2: I met him early on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be very clear about something when it
comes to human rights Saudi Arabia, maybe maybe beginning to
get I don't know advancements, but Saudi Arabia is far
from a country that has human rights. Women still not denied,
many of whom back and forth, back and forth, whether
they're even permitted to drive, own land, have money, work
by themselves. Reporter goes on and asks Trump and Ben
Salmon about the killing of journalist Jamal Koshogi. Notice this
is really is upsetting. It's upsetting for several reasons. One,
Jamal Koshogi's first cousin is actually a very good friend
of mine. Trump defense Saudi Arabia over US intelligence Again,
I want to remind people that Jamal Koshogi had US citizenship.
Play the clip fred.
Speaker 3: Is it appropriate, mister President, for your family to be
doing business in Saudi Arabia while you're president?
Speaker 2: Is that a conflict of interest? And your Royal highness?
Speaker 1: The US intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder.
Speaker 2: Of a journalist.
Speaker 3: Not eleven families are furious that you are here in the.
Speaker 2: Overlonge who watched the Americans? Who are you? And the
same team as who you will? How a? The ABC
NEWSIR you with who ABC NEWSIR fakeness?
Speaker 3: ABC fakeness, one of the worst, one of the worst
in the business. But I'll ask you a question. I
have nothing to do with the family business. I have
left and when I've devoted one hundred percent of my energy,
what my family does is fine. They do business all over.
They've done very little with Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2: Actually they could.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they could do a lot, and anything they've
done has been very good. That's what we've done. We've
built that in his business for a long time. I've
been very successful. I decided to leave that success beee
behind and make America very successful. And I've made America
more successful by far than it ever was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as this gentleman is concerned, imagine imagine
attacking ABC News because asking a question that we all
know to be accurate, that Saudi Arabia played a part
in the nine to eleven destruction of and the death of,
you know, people here in New York, in Virginia and elsewhere.
I mean, how is this even fake news? Why would
the President of the United States turn around and call
it fake news when Americans were killed? And on top
of that, Jamal Kashogi, as I said before, who had
dual citizenship. He was also a US citizen, was violently
killed and chopped up and alleged lee at the direction
of the man sitting there in the Oval office. So
sure it's understandable that nine to eleven victims are pissed off.
You know the question that when I saw that, that
ran right through my mind. Howard Lutnik lost more people
than anybody as a result of Kanta Fitzgerald being in
the World Trade Center. I wonder how he felt. I
wonder if he actually shook Muhammed Ben Salmon's hand, considering
his brother perished in that event as well. Now Ben
Salmon spoke about Koshogi saying that they did the necessary investigation.
They did it all. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: About the jurors.
Speaker 4: It's really painful to here, you know, anyone that been
losing his life for you know, the purpose of nothing,
anegal Way, And it's been painful for us in Saudiaba.
Speaker 2: We've did all the light steps of.
Speaker 4: Investigation except on Saudi Arabia, and we've improved our system
to be sure that nothing happened like that. And it's
painful and it's a huge mistake, and you're doing our
best that this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1: So Saudi Arabia conducted an investigation controlled beginning to sound
a little familiar, right, controlled by the Crown Prince, to
make a determination if the Crown Prince had involvement in
the death and the murder of Jamal Kashogi. And not surprisingly,
the answer is no. But we will do better in
the future to make sure it never happens again. Now,
Ben Salman also spoke about nine to eleven, but his
sentiment seemed two along the lines, I'm sorry that that happened,
but play the clip just you.
Speaker 4: Allow me to answer. You know, I feel painful about
you know, the families of ninety even in America. But
you know, we have to focus on reality. Reality based
in CII documents and based on a documents that the
Laddin he used Saudi people and that event for one
main purpose is to destroy this relation, to destroy.
Speaker 2: The American Saudi relation. That's the purpose of miney event.
Speaker 4: So whoever buying that that means they are hipping was
of the ladin purpose of destroying this relation. You know,
that's strong relation between America and Sadi Abia. It's bad
for extremism, it's bad for tourism and we have.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, doesn't really again answer the question, but you know,
I get I get it very well crafted and has
some truth and legitimacy to it. Meanwhile, Trump then joked
with the Crown Prince about fist pumps. Obviously we know
why he played the clip.
Speaker 5: That's another league, mister President, and they give a fist pump.
I grabbed that hand. I don't wear that hand has
been I grabbed that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm sure it's been several places. But mean well,
Trump then asked him, I can't imagine this. You have
the Deputy Crown Prince Saudi Arabia there, Why not? Sure?
But he is there? And Trump, of course knowing the
answer in advance. You know, as they say, never ask
a question you don't know the answer to. Who's the
best president for Saudi Arabia of all time? Play the
clip right and.
Speaker 3: We're walking, and I asked the Crown Prince, so outside
of Trump, outside of truck, because I blow everyone away,
who was the best president for Saudi Arabia?
Speaker 2: And you could maybe it's an interesting answer.
Speaker 4: It all is full to south It democrats, democrats, and
re Regan. He's one of the historical president that have
close ties with Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2: We've worked with all presidents, says.
Speaker 4: All the way, that's out of.
Speaker 2: The league with the president.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, why not. Trump then claimed that Ben Salmon
told him that he inherited a mess. The United States
was a mess, right because Ben Salmon is the expert
on now US economy.
Speaker 2: Play the clip, and we inherited a mess.
Speaker 3: You actually told me you thought the country was in
big trouble. I'm not going to use the exact word
that you use. I refuse to say that you thought
our country was dead a year and a half, two
years ago, but a country was in trouble, and now
we have the hottest country in the world.
Speaker 2: You said that.
Speaker 1: Also, yeah again, did you see Latinik standing there sort
of staring at him? Sure? You really think Muhammad Ben
Salmon said America was dead, that this country was over
and done. It's why that they're begging for America's help
every year, year after year, to ensure that he run
doesn't wipe out the whole bin laden in, the whole
Outsaud family. Meanwhile, the conversation took well, let's just say,
an intense turn when the same ABC reporter who asked
about Koshogi asked about that's right. The Epstein Files played
the clip.
Speaker 3: You got a psycho. You're a terrible person and a
terrible reporter. As far as the Epstein Files is, I
have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him
out of my club many years ago because I thought
he was a sick pervert. But I guess I would
turn out to be right. But you know who does
have Bill Lynton, Larry Summers, who ran Harvard, was with
him every single night, every single weekend.
Speaker 2: They lived together. They went to his island many times.
I never did.
Speaker 3: Andrew Weisman here. All these guys were friends of his.
You don't even talk about those people. You just keep
going on the Epstein file.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's because you had I don't know, two
dozen survivors in the Capitol today, and you also had
the vote. Now Trump claimed, by the way, I'm not
going to disclaim the fact. I don't believe he went
on the island either. I know Trump for a decade
and a half and I've said it and I'll say
to it again today, tomorrow and every day. I just
don't think that what people think that Trump's involvment in
those files have to do with sexual So what it
is that they're hiding again, I don't know. It's why
we desperately need the release of these files. But Trump
claims that the Epstein files, and this is the part
that's wrong, and his enablers should stop him from doing.
He keeps calling it a hoax to distract from the
twenty one trillion dollars that he's allegedly brought in play
the clip.
Speaker 3: You just keep going on the Epstein files, and what
the Epstein is is a Democrat hoax to try and
get me not to be able to talk about the
twenty one trillion dollars that I talked about today.
Speaker 1: It's a yeah, actually it was twenty eight trillion. And
where is this twenty one or twenty eight or thirty
eight or two hundred and fifty kajillion billion? Where is
it show the American people that we actually have it,
Because I look, it's not like I just come to
you and I just say shit. I actually go and
I investigate. I spend hours and hours. I'm up at
four thirty in the morning looking for this stuff. And
I go onto the government's website. I don't see twenty
one trillion dollars. I see a couple of billion from tariffs. Meanwhile,
where do you think those billions are coming from our pocket?
We're paying it. Tariffs are taxes, consumers pay tariffs. Just
keep repeating it. But then again, we're having a good time.
In the Oval office of Trump then jokes that Ben Salmon, well, yeah,
if he was really a good guy, he could have
invested in Trump's big beautiful ballroom. Play that clip, and
it's going to be beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's a very popular thing what we're doing.
And by the way, no government funds. It's all put
up private money, all private money. And of the case,
I think it's there's a restriction on foreign as. Otherwise
I could have asked you just for a check.
Speaker 1: Okay, But yeah, that's really really funny. Meanwhile, Trump also
said that Bensalmon is going to invest on behalf of
Saudi of course, one trillion dollars into the US.
Speaker 2: Play the clip, the biggest plants anywhere in the world.
Speaker 3: And I want to thank you because you've agreed to
invest six hundred billion dollars into.
Speaker 2: The United States.
Speaker 3: And because he's my friend, he might make it a
trillion but I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to have to work on him.
Speaker 3: But it's six hundred We can count on six hundred billion,
but that number could go up a little bit higher.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I don't know. We'll say, but.
Speaker 1: Okay, like I said, I do investigation. Saudi Arabia has
the nineteenth largest economy in the world, nineteenth. Their entire
economy is one point two This is twenty twenty five,
by the way, one point two seven trillion dollars. So
they're basically going to take their entire GDP and invest
it in the United States of America. If you believe that,
I have not one, not two, but three bridges here
in New York to sell you. And finally, I do
want to end on a clip of Trump claiming that
he and Ben Salmon are on the same side of
every issue. Not a good look for the United States.
Play the clip a lot of jobs.
Speaker 3: We have a lot of jobs. So I just want
to thank you. We've been really good friends for a
long period of time. We've always been on the same
side of every issue. I think we've done a great
job in wiping out the nuclear capacity of Iran.
Speaker 2: Nobody else could have done that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody could have done it because you didn't wipe
them out. And in fact, it's really Saudi that needs
the United States help more than Saudi can help the
United States as it deals with Iran, believe it or not,
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