“Under the Trump administration, the U.S. "didn’t need the Middle East" oil, and now “we’re going back to them asking them for help.”
What FactCheck.org found
About 9.8% of U.S. petroleum imports (most of it crude oil) came from Persian Gulf countries in 2020, according to the EIA. That has dropped to an average of about 6.6% in the first five months of 2021.
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In short
Donald Trump (Former U.S. president) made this claim around 21 August 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 August 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Distorts the Facts”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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