WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a telephone call with the emir of Kuwait in
January, U.S. President Donald Trump pressed the Gulf monarch to move
forward on a $10 billion fighter jet deal that had been stalled for more
than a year.
Trump was acting on behalf of Boeing Co (BA.N),
America’s second-largest defense contractor, which had become
frustrated that a long-delayed sale critical to its military aircraft
division was going nowhere, several people familiar with the matter
said.
With this Oval Office intervention, the details of which
have not been previously reported, Trump did something unusual for a
U.S. president – he personally helped to close a major arms deal. In
private phone calls and public appearances with world leaders, Trump has
gone further than any of his predecessors to act as a salesman for the
U.S. defense industry, analysts said.
We may not have any new jobs or improved health care or upgraded infrastructure, but America has got guns to spare... selling the country out one fragment at a time.
There is job security in munitions.
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