President Donald Trump has said that Ukraine has “essentially agreed” to give the United States access to $500 billion worth of deposits of rare earths and critical minerals.
Trump told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier in an interview taped ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl about the half-a-trillion-dollar deal.
“They have tremendously valuable land in terms of rare earth [minerals], in terms of oil and gas, in terms of other things. I want to have our money secured because we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars [in Ukraine],” Trump told Fox News.
He said the United States is owed “more than $300 billion, probably $350 [billion]” over its support of Ukraine and that Europe is “in for probably $100 billion.”…