I don’t know about that specific quote, but Trump has said in a number of different contexts that he wanted to defeat ISIS and take their oil. His first TV ad, way back in January, had this ominous voiceover (my bold):
It seems to be from an interview he did last year on the O’Reilly Factor. Not really any context other than the obvious. He was answering “how do we defeat ISIS?”.
This seems the interview, though not working great on my phone when I play it:
Eta: quadruple ninja’d’ but onLy once ninja’d with the video!
True, but the one figure they didn’t release (as is common) was cash on hand, which gives a better idea as to how effectively they have utilized (or saved) that cash. Note that HRC did say how much cash they have on hand ($44mil) when they released the same story:
At the beginning of June she had $42 million. Raised $40 million. Ended June with $44 million, meaning she spent $38m of that $40m. That’s a more effective use of cash, by the way.
Trump will likely show a better job at growing his cash haul, but the money is there to be spent, not saved.
Sounds as though Trump has heard of your idea and likes it–even going so far as to combine the two. “Pirate” is the least of what we’d be called, if we tried to take possession of assets of a sovereign nation. (Presumably that oil still belongs to the nations from which ISIS has ‘liberated’ the land in which it reposes.)
The Austrians are good people, very talented and brilliant people. I see where some really disgusting media people are saying ‘they’re stealing our trees,’ but I have to tell you that these people are losers, they are a total catastrophe, okay? I made a deal with the Austrians, the best deal. So great a deal you wouldn’t believe it. I’m telling you, there is no problem, I guarantee.
The people who are saying the Austrians are giving me a very large and classy estate just outside Vienna are horrible people, horrible, very corrupt.
I’m going to be waiting with bated breath to see if any of the speakers just get up and freak out. I mean, we have congressmen who have said they’d rather watch a dumpster fire- I can easily see cruz or someone just taking the podium and going off on the Orange one.