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WATCH: President Donald J Trump meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi in the Oval Office: “We have a tremendous chemistry together… he won an election that a lot of people didn’t anticipate… it was very important to me to have somebody get in there that can do the job and do it well.”
POTUS on Iraq: “The oil companies are all going in now and they’re doing partnerships with Iraq, and they’re getting along very well. The relationship is a whole big relationship where we don’t need the military there… We’re there to protect them if need be, but we don’t think that’s going to be necessary… Iran was a big burden on Iraq… but they’re not going to have that problem anymore.”
POTUS: “The Gulf States are going to invest a tremendous amount of money into the United States, and that was very satisfactory to me. I think it’s actually much better.”
POTUS on the late Sen. Graham: “This is something that is very—almost undetectable… his father died of the same thing at about the same age… I don’t see a lot of evil there. I know there’s all sorts of conspiracy theories going [around].”
POTUS during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi:
“If you remember, even though I was a civilian… I used to say, ‘Don’t go into Iraq. Don’t attack Iraq.’ Frankly, they attacked the wrong country, and they did a lot of damage.”
“Do you have any regrets about lifting the naval blockade or giving the sanctions waivers?”
POTUS: “No. I gave them a chance. I wanted to give them a chance at making a deal… and they shot first, and that was a big mistake that they shot first—because we have been knocking the hell out of them.”
POTUS on Thursday’s address to the nation: “It’s really, really big news — and our country has to shape up… because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country. We’ll be discussing other things, too, but it’s going to be a very big announcement.”
POTUS on the Russia sanctions bill: “This is in honor of Lindsey. This was his thing… and there’s a good chance that it gets done, but they’d like to add Iran and they’d like to add Hezbollah to it.”
