Rattling off a list of praises for former President Donald Trump during an interview with Donald Trump Jr., Fox News host Sean Hannity falsely claimed that under Trump, the U.S. completely scrapped its reliance on oil imports from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries.
"If you look pre-COVID, your dad, he got us to energy independence," Hannity told the younger Trump during the Dec. 1 episode of "Hannity," his primetime TV show. "We didn’t import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia, the Middle East."
Sean Hannity said in this clip that “if you look pre-COVID" under Trump, "we didn't import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia.” That’s False. In 2019, the U.S. imported 500,000 barrels of crude oil from Saudi Arabia per day. https://t.co/K3eadpBMPK pic.twitter.com/E78uCAEzQK
— Bill McCarthy (@billdmccarthy) December 2, 2021
At the end of Trump’s presidency, PolitiFact rated his promise to achieve energy independence as a Compromise, noting that the U.S. was moving in the right direction but not there yet.
But it’s inaccurate for Hannity to claim that "pre-COVID" under Trump, the U.S. "didn’t import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia."
In 2019, the last year before the pandemic, the U.S. imported about 500,000 barrels of crude oil from Saudi Arabia per day, and over 182 million barrels in total, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Imports also came from other countries in the Middle East.
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