TAPPER: And, Senator Santorum, let me — let me go to you because I would say that you and Marco Rubio when it comes to raising the issues of human rights, when it comes to countries like Saudi Arabia are on the same page, do you think that’s fair to say?
SANTORUM: It is fair to say.
TAPPER: OK. So let me just — I just want to read this to you. This is President Trump before he was president, June 13th, 2016, talking — writing on Facebook about the Clinton Foundation taking money from Saudi Arabia — quote — “Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays. Hillary must return all money from such countries.”
That is very different from what President Trump is saying at least according to excerpts today, when he says, we’re not here to lecture you. You do your faith. You run your country the way you want to run it.
SANTORUM: Yes. Well, this is where I think Farah is right and that maybe publicly he says that but privately he better be talking to the Saudis about exactly what Farah talked about, which is spewing through their madrassas and through all of their educational opportunities all around the world, hate, a violent and radical form of Islam and — that does those very things that Donald Trump talked about.
So there may be a public conversation which would show some nuance in Donald Trump that I don’t think most people would have expected, that would be fine from my perspective, as long as it’s being followed up by saying, look, the reason we’re having problems with Islamists is because we have this country spreading Islamism all throughout the world, and you have to stop this. You have — you have to start to change the message coming out of here, and I understand you need to do that to contain the masses who are, you know, there’s that friction between the royal family and the masses, but this is undermining our national security, and we are not going to continue a relationship that does — that allows this is to continue.