Trump explique, particulièrement clairement, qu’il n’a pas laissé des troupes en Syrie pour combattre, mais pour « prendre le pétrole » :
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- You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil, they’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil.
La journaliste de Fox News, outragée que le Président des États-Unis divulgue aussi explicitement ses raisons :
- They’re not “taking” the oil. They’re protecting the facilities.
Et Trump de continuer :
- Oh, maybe we will, maybe we won’t. I don’t know, maybe we should take it. But we have the oil, right now, the United States has the oil.