Unlike Saudi Funded Hillary, Trump Would Consider Ending U.S. Oil Purchases from Saudi Arabia

While Hillary Clinton has received millions in donations from Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump told the New York Times in May he may end US dependence to the oil-rich middle east country unless certain conditions are met.

The Saudi kingdom, which funds terrorism, enslaves women and believes in killing gays, between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Which leads us a simple question.

Which is better, a President who is owned by the Saudis, or one that elevates the USA to energy independence from them?

From The Guardian 

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said he would consider stopping US oil purchases from Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight Islamic State.

Trump made the comments in a lengthy foreign policy interview published by the New York Times on Saturday in response to a question about whether, if elected president, he would halt oil purchases from US allies unless they provided on-the-ground forces against Islamic State.

“The answer is, probably yes,” Trump said, according to a transcript.

Trump has said the US should be reimbursed by the countries it provides protection, even those with vast resources such as Saudi Arabia, a top oil exporter.

“We’re not being reimbursed for the kind of tremendous service that we’re performing by protecting various countries. Now Saudi Arabia’s one of them.”

“If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don’t think it would be around,” he told the Times.

As part of a foreign policy he summed up as “America First”, Trump also said he would consider allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals rather than depend on the US for protection against North Korea and China.

The phone interview was the most in-depth discussion so far on foreign policy for Trump, who has spent his entire career in business.

Trump said he was not an isolationist, but described the United States as a poor debtor nation that disproportionately funds international alliances such as Nato and the United Nations.

Similarly lopsided relationships exist with allies such as Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia, he said.

“We have been disrespected, mocked and ripped off for many many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher,” he told the Times.

“So America first, yes, we will not be ripped off anymore. We’re going to be friendly with everybody, but we’re not going to be taken advantage of by anybody,” he said.

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