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Kushner called Lockheed CEO to get a better arms deal for Saudi Arabia
The Hill ^ | 18 May 2017 10:03pm | Max Greenwood

Posted on 05/19/2017 6:10:20 AM PDT by blueplum

President Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner personally called the CEO of Lockheed Martin during a meeting with a Saudi delegation earlier this month to ask her to cut the price of a missile defense system, The New York Times reported Thursday. The call was part of Kushner's effort to secure a roughly $110 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia before Trump's scheduled trip to the kingdom on Friday.  During the meeting with the delegation, Kushner determined that cost could prohibit the Saudis from purchasing a THAAD missile defense system, which is designed to shoot down intermediate-range ballistic missiles. 

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: itsokbecausetrump; kushner; lockheed; nepotism; saudiarabia; wot
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"While unusual, the phone call does not appear to break any laws" ( - let's just get that out of the way, shall we?)

liberals keep busy chasing their pants on fire, but the White House is still working hard

1 posted on 05/19/2017 6:10:21 AM PDT by blueplum
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George W. Bush helped the Saudis. So did Obama. So, who is surprised that the one-worlder statist squish Kushner is trying to help them?


2 posted on 05/19/2017 6:13:27 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: blueplum

I love Melania she’s a beautiful but that’s a no qualification for her position.

I think she and her husband out of the out of the White House, they’re part of the problem.

Actually Jared’s extended family also is part of the problem.


3 posted on 05/19/2017 6:19:13 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: blueplum

No intent, obviously.....


4 posted on 05/19/2017 6:19:39 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition mobile devices. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: backwoods-engineer

The Saudis don’t seem to actually use their weapons. Or use them effectively. So....I’m not too worried. More $$ for us.


5 posted on 05/19/2017 6:21:28 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: gaijin

Melania ?


6 posted on 05/19/2017 6:22:24 AM PDT by katykelly
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To: blueplum

Now we know that the CEO of Lockheed can not be trusted to work in confidence.


7 posted on 05/19/2017 6:22:35 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: gaijin
Ivanka,not malania is Mrs Kushner.
8 posted on 05/19/2017 6:23:19 AM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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To: Bookshelf

White Tower leak I’d guess. Deep Swamp.


9 posted on 05/19/2017 6:25:39 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition mobile devices. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: blueplum

“Come on bro, throw me a bone here!”


10 posted on 05/19/2017 6:28:37 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: samantha

I am sure Gaijin’s mind is not working properly due to Free Republic Interruptus. It will take us all a while to get back to normal.


11 posted on 05/19/2017 6:28:52 AM PDT by buckalfa (Slip sliding away towards senility.)
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To: blueplum

Who leaked this? Drain the Swamp!


12 posted on 05/19/2017 6:29:32 AM PDT by upbeat5
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Doesn’t matter—we shouldn’t have an ethics-compromised, nepotistic, liberal Democrat carrying the water of the military-industrial complex in such a corporatist/fascist pressuring of the private sector for the purpose of more heavily arming the pro-sharia perpetrators of 9/11.


13 posted on 05/19/2017 6:30:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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This was a pro-Jared, plumping up his influence, leak.


14 posted on 05/19/2017 6:33:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: buckalfa

I guess it is lack of sleep,only one cure for that.


15 posted on 05/19/2017 6:45:10 AM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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To: 9YearLurker

You can expect more of this given POTUS is getting basically ZERO support from the beltway GOP while under historic political nuclear attacks. “Principled conservatives” included.


16 posted on 05/19/2017 6:46:33 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: blueplum

If Obama was in office he would have the US pay for the entire system, not the Saudis.


17 posted on 05/19/2017 6:58:43 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: gaijin

Jared just cut an American company’s profit off a foreign government. Nothing about this deal helps America. He’s part of the swamp.


18 posted on 05/19/2017 7:04:30 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Lockheed can say no. Tell Jared, they are giving US firms better deals, therefore, Saudi has to pay the difference.
19 posted on 05/19/2017 7:07:37 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

George W. Bush helped the Saudis. So did Obama. So, who is surprised that the one-worlder statist squish Kushner is trying to help them?

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xlintonista foundation hepped the saudis to the tune of about $25 million


20 posted on 05/19/2017 7:08:11 AM PDT by thinden
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