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# Saudi Arabia Will Retaliate 'Stronger' If President Trump Takes Action Over Journalist Jamal Khashoggi's Disappearance

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## Video: President Trump Says U.S. Would Be 'Foolish' to Cancel Saudi Arms Deals

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_Published 2018-10-13. President Donald Trump said the U.S. would be “foolish” to cancel arms deals with Saudi Arabia in response to the controversy surrounding the fate of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi._


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## Zainab Fattah / Bloomberg


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Oct 14, 2018 1:20 PM UTC

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would be “foolish” to cancel arms deals with Saudi Arabia in response to the controversy surrounding the fate of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi. 

by 

[Zainab Fattah / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/)


## Zainab Fattah / Bloomberg


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Oct 14, 2018 1:20 PM UTC

(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia will retaliate against any punitive measures with an even “stronger” response, the official news agency reported, in an apparent reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to take action over the disappearance of a prominent government critic.

“The kingdom rejects any threats,” the Saudi Press Agency reported, citing an official it didn’t identify.

Saudi Arabian equities slumped as much as 7 percent Sunday on concern over possible U.S. measures.

In an excerpt from an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Trump added pressure on the kingdom, vowing “severe punishment” should the kingdom’s leaders be linked to the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

“The kingdom emphasizes that it will respond to any measure against it with an even stronger measure,” the official said, according to SPA. “The kingdom’s economy has an influential and vital role in the global economy, and that kingdom’s economy is only affected by the global economy.”


## Transcript

[00:00] I work very hard to get the order for the military, 110
[00:03] billion dollars. I believe it's the largest order ever
[00:07] made. It's 450, 000 jobs, it's
[00:11] the best equipment in the world, but if they don't buy
[00:14] it from us, they're going to buy it from Russia or they
[00:16] going to buy it from China or they going to buy it from
[00:19] other countries But Russia and China wanted it very
[00:22] badly. I got 100 %, almost 100 % of their order, and
[00:27] I would, from the standpoint of jobs, economic
[00:30] development, a lot of other reasons, I would like to do
[00:34] something where we could maybe look at other things.
[00:38] I will tell the Senators, because that's a tremendous
[00:41] order for our companies. It's a tremendous order for,
[00:46] really, from an economic development standpoint. You
[00:49] look at Texas, has a big chunk of it. Almost all of our
[00:53] states are involved in that order. So I actually think
[00:55] we'd be punishing ourselves if we did that. There are
[00:58] other things we can do that are very, very powerful,
[01:01] very strong. And we will do that now as of this moment
[01:04] nobody knows what happens as pf this moment we are
[01:07] looking into a very seriously. Turkey is looking into a
[01:12] very high level at the highest level and so so to Arabia
[01:16] they may gonna get it back and they happen getting
[01:18] back and I know Mike is dealing with them, John is
[01:20] dealing with them But in terms of the order
[01:24] of $ 110 billion, think of that, $ 110 billion. All they're
[01:28] gonna do is give it to other countries. And I think that
[01:31] would be very foolish for a country. But there are other
[01:34] things that we can do that will be very severe.

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