POLITICO reports that “The State Department inspector general who was fired by President Donald Trump late Friday night was investigating the president’s effort to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia without congressional approval.”
When asked about an illegal weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, Trump pled ignorance -- saying, “I don’t know anything about it,” but also adding, “I think that when somebody pays us a fortune for -- you know, arms -- we should get the deal done.”
With Saudi Arabia’s long record of human rights abuses, some might disagree. That’s exactly why arms deals like this are supposed to go through Congress. But with Trump narrowly pulling ahead of Biden in battleground states, we want to know if you think the president was right to fire the IG investigating his alleged misconduct. Tell us:
