The Trump Administration Tried To Rush Nuclear Technology To Saudi Arabia

It's illegal and quite corrupt and disgusting in itself.

But beyond the personal profit motive, why did they do it? There are lots of corrupt ways to make money in the presidency. Why give nuclear technology to the evil Saudis?

One reason is I think the Trump administration really wants a reason to go to war with Iran, but currently Iran is currently abiding by the nut,ear deal that the Obama administration negotiated with them.

However, if the Saudis got nuclear technology and then started developing nuclear weapons, well, that would incentivize the Iranians like nothing else to break the deal and go back to developing nukes... which would then give the Trump admin a "cases belli" to attack Iran.