26 Jan 2017 11:59 am
Saudi Arabia Not on Trump’s Travel Ban List Despite Providing 15 of 19 9/11 Hijackers
Trump's Muslim travel ban list seems then to be less about danger vectors than sources of wealth for Donald Trump
Talking about Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told host Dana Bash that his master’s travel ban would target people who come from countries “that have sent a large number of people that have become terrorists.”
Bash asked which countries they were looking at specifically, naming as an example, Saudi Arabia. This was Sessions’ answer:
“The public data that we have indicate there are quite a number of countries in that region that have sent a large number of people that have become terrorists…Pakistan has a number, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen.”
Significantly, Sessions did not include Saudi Arabia even though, if he wants to find the point of origin for terrorists, he should: 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia.
Why might Donald Trump give Saudi Arabia a pass? Well, Donald Trump is a businessman. He has huge business ties with Russia and you might notice he is soft on Russia too, and very cozy with strongman Vladimir Putin.
We are right to question whether NATO is more important to Trump than his business ventures in Russia.
And despite blaming them for 9/11, he also has huge business ties with Saudi Arabia, including a potential hotel project in Jeddah.