{"id":86750,"date":"2018-10-11T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/10\/11\/trump-doubles-down-hes-not-stopping-saudi-arms-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:05:08","slug":"trump-doubles-down-hes-not-stopping-saudi-arms-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/11\/trump-doubles-down-hes-not-stopping-saudi-arms-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump doubles down: He\u2019s not stopping Saudi arms sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump signaled for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/10\/11\/trump-warns-halting-saudi-arms-sales-would-hurt-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">second time in 24 hours<\/a> he would oppose stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia even if its government was found to have murdered a Saudi journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said Thursday morning he wants answers amid reports the Saudi government is to blame in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, an outspoken critic of the Saudi government and its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But Trump said he wants to avoid a move that would send Riyadh to the U.S. defense industry\u2019s competitors overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t like it, not even a little bit. But whether or not we should stop $110 billion in this country knowing [Saudi Arabia has] four or five alternatives \u2014 two good alternatives? That would not be acceptable to me,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday on Capitol Hill, lawmakers were discussing various tracks to punish Saudi Arabia if the allegations were founded \u2015 by suspending arms sales, by cutting U.S. military aid to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen or by imposing sanctions \u2014 though some lawmakers expressed doubts Trump would follow through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCongress will not let this idly go by,\u201d Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told reporters. \u201cThis is something that enrages people, as it should.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wary of disrupting ties with a longtime ally, or perhaps hemming in the president, Republicans mostly urged restraint. The Senate\u2019s No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he would reserve judgement until the facts emerge. \u201cThis is obviously a very serious matter, and our relationship with Saudi Arabia is important,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2018\/10\/10\/us-senators-order-magnitsky-probe-as-riyadhs-capitol-hill-clout-plummets\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Saudi1.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US senators order Magnitsky probe as Riyadh\u2019s Capitol Hill clout plummets<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">New controversy threatens to roil the rocky U.S.-Saudi relationship and casts a cloud over US-Saudi defense deals.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an impromptu Oval Office press conference, Trump panned the idea of curbing arms sales. Doing that would derail the $110 billion package of proposed weapons sales to Riyadh that Trump announced on his first trip abroad as president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would not be in favor stopping of a country spending $110 billion [in the U.S.], which is an all-time record, and letting Russia have that money, and letting China have that money,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause all [Riyadh\u2019s] going to do is say, that\u2019s OK, we don\u2019t have to buy it from Boeing, we don\u2019t have to buy it from Lockheed, we don\u2019t have to buy it from Raytheon and all these great companies. We can buy it from Russia and China.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo what good does that do us? There are other things we can do,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said the U.S. is looking into Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance, but seemed to downplay its significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAgain, this took place in Turkey. And to the best of our knowledge, Khashoggi is not a United States citizen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To some degree, the arms sales issue is already moot because the Senate Foreign Relations Committee\u2019s ranking member, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., has been holding up U.S. sales to Saudi Arabia for months under the Senate\u2019s informal review process over questions about civilian casualties caused by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corker and Menendez acknowledged Thursday that arms sales to Saudi Arabia were already effectively frozen and will not advance while the Khashoggi matter is unresolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy only involvement with this is with one of the defense contractors, and I shared with him before this happened: \u2018Please do not push to have any arms sales brought up right now because they will not pass [Congress], OK?&#8217;\u201d Corker told reporters. \u201cWith this, I can assure you it will not happen for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2017\/06\/13\/us-senate-advances-saudi-guided-munitions-sale-53-47\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Chris Murphy<\/a>, D-Conn., and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2016\/04\/12\/senators-want-legislation-to-limit-us-bomb-sales-to-saudi-arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Rand Paul<\/a>, R-Ky., have vowed to force a votes on any Saudi arms sale the administration advances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murphy has said the Khashoggi matter makes the case against U.S. military aid to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen, which includes aerial refueling of Saudi aircraft. Paul plans to introduce a measure to cut all funding, training, advising, and any other coordination with the Saudi military until Khashoggi is returned alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/03\/20\/us-senate-blocks-move-to-end-involvement-in-yemen-55-44\/\" target=_blank>Sen. 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Corker and Menendez on Wednesday led 18 other senators (including Graham) to ask Trump to impose sanctions against anyone found responsible for Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance, even if that includes the leaders of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They triggered the Global Magnitsky Act, which gives the president 120 days to decide whether to impose sanctions on any foreign person he determines sponsored or was involved with the journalist\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf it turns out to be today what we think it is today, but don\u2019t know, there will have to be significant sanctions placed at the highest levels,\u201d Corker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corker said that while there is a tight relationship between Trump and bin Salman, and Corker views bin Salman as an intellect and a visionary, the U.S. must seize the opportunity to send bin Salman a sharp message and do it now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s going to be around for 40 or 50 years,\u201d Corker said of the 33-year-old crown prince. \u201cIf you let him get away with killing journalists in his thirties, it\u2019s only going to get worse. 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