Arabia in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. ‘They should pay us,’ Trump said of the oil rich nation. ‘Like it or don’t like it, people have backed Saudi Arabia. What I really mind, though, is we back it at tremendous expense. We get nothing for it.’ Trump portrayed the U.S. financial relationship with Saudi Arabia as outdated. ‘The primary reason we're with Saudi Arabia is because we need the oil,’ Trump said. ‘Now we don't need the oil so much, and if we let our people really go, we wouldn't need the oil at all and we could let everybody else fight it out.’ The U.S. currently imports more than one million barrels of Saudi Arabian oil each day, according to the U.S. State Department's website….’Saudi Arabia, if it weren’t for us, they wouldn’t be here,’ Trump said. ‘They wouldn’t exist.’” [Bloomberg, 8/16/15] Trump Said That The Chinese Were Enemies. MORGAN: “There are towns in China that sell 95 percent of the world's duvets. You know, they manufacture 85 percent of the world's buttons. Now I don't think that's the enemy. I think it's a potential business friend. Isn't it? Can't we work with them?” TRUMP: “I don't think they're friends. I think they're enemies. I deal with Chinese. I just sold an apartment to a Chinese person for $33 million a short while ago -- a couple of months ago. I mean I'm supposed to like the Chinese but I understand the Chinese and I deal with them all the time. Now this is before they thought I might run for president. They consider our leaders extremely stupid people. They cannot believe what they get away with. Whether it's the Olympics where they put people under age and they say, no, no, no, and then we find out it was true and they say, oh, we just didn't know. Or whether they have the beautiful girl singing the national anthem, their national anthem, but it wasn't her singing. So many different things. I mean the Chinese are looking to put us under and believe me they are not our friends. I'm surprised at you because you're not somebody that's easily misled or misguided… They are not our friend.” [Piers Morgan Tonight, Fox News, 2/9/11] In Response To China Devaluing Their Currency, Trump Said He Would Put A Tariff On Chinese Products And Claimed We “Have To” Have A Trade War With China. “Challenged by host Bill O'Reilly, the celebrity real estate tycoon doubled down on what has become a main issue in his campaign, criticizing the U.S. government for allowing China to devalue its currency. Trump said he would put a tariff on Chinese products, saying ‘you have to’ have a trade war. ‘Their leaders are intelligent, ours aren't,’ Trump said Monday.” [The Hill, 8/25/15; The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, 8/24/15] • Trump Said He Would Start A Trade War With China, Stating “You Have To Do That ... You Have No Choice.” “Trump, who has made a similar call with Mexico, said Monday that he would initiate a trade war with China, saying ‘you have to do that ... you have no choice.’: [CNN, 8/25/15; The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, 8/24/15] • CNN Money: Trump Massive Tariffs “Would Start An Immediate Trade War That Would Likely Hurt American Jobs And Exports.” “Trump's big claim is that he will bring back American jobs -- ‘from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places.’ If you listen closely, Trump has proposed doing this two ways: slapping tariffs on foreign goods and negotiating better trade deals. In his campaign announcement speech, he threatened a 35% tax on Ford (F) vehicles made in Mexico that are brought back to the U.S. to be sold, and in 2011, he has made headlines for suggesting a 25% tariff on goods coming from China to the U.S. At face value, what Trump has proposed would start an immediate trade war that would likely hurt American jobs and exports.” [CNN Money, 7/28/15] Trump: “I Will Build The Best Wall, The Biggest, The Strongest, Not Penetrable. They Won’t Be Crawling Over It Like Give It A Little Jump And They Are Over The Wall Because They’re Australians And I’ll Have Mexico Pay For That Wall.” [Donald Trump at Tuscan Kitchen restaurant, 4/27/15] Confidential Page 37
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