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Donald Trump has shrugged off the Saudi regime’s 2018 murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying the journalist was “extremely controversial” and unpopular, dismissing the killing by observing “things happen”.
The US president made the remarks at the White House on Tuesday while welcoming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the first time since Khashoggi’s murder and dismemberment in Istanbul by Saudi state operatives. US intelligence agencies later made a formal assessment that the prince had ordered the killing, but Trump insisted on Tuesday that “he knew nothing about it”.
Trump castigated the ABC News journalist who asked a question about the murder, suggesting that ABC should lose its broadcasting licence, and describing Khashoggi as “extremely controversial”: “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen, but he knew nothing about it,” Trump said, referring to the crown prince.
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The Outlaw Josie Wales:
"Wish we had time to bury them fellas." (Tim Bottoms)
"To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms." (Clint Eastwood)
$1.0050-cents just to be included on the list. Did you really mean paint?of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Donald J. Trump has once again chosen to refute an "inconvenient" finding from U.S. intelligence.
After arriving at the White House, MBS received a gunfire salute and a six-jet military flyover!
Trump has agreed to sell Saudi Arabia our technologically-advanced F-35 jets
despite concerns that the technology could be stolen by or transferred to China.
This entire sordid affair stinks to high heaven!
"Trump’s family has a strong personal interest in the kingdom.
In September, London real estate developer Dar Global announced that it plans to launch Trump Plaza
in the Red Sea city of Jeddah."
"It’s Dar Global’s second collaboration with the Trump Organization, the collection of companies
controlled by the U.S. president’s children, in Saudi Arabia."
"Trump pushed back on suggestions that there could be a conflict of interest
in his family’s dealings with the Saudis."
"'I have nothing to do with the family business,' Trump said."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-saudi-crown-prince-mbs-505b32527e58d4bd49d5bc917efb4936
Comments: Perhaps the Trump family's business interests in Saudi Arabia
may be influencing the president's decision making process?
Is the Emoluments Clause still valid or has it been discarded like the rest of our Constitution?
he was met by a Marine band, officers on horseback carrying the Saudi and American flags,
and fighter jets flying over the White House in a V formation."
"It was far more pomp than visiting foreign leaders normally receive.
What had the crown prince done to merit such honor from the United States?"
"He has helped broker a tentative peace between Hamas and Israel.
But so have Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates."
"The real reason for the honor is that MBS and the Saudis are doing lots of business
with Trump’s family — and this visit is part of the payoff."
"It’s MBS’s effort to rehabilitate his reputation after Saudi operatives murdered
Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and chopped his body into pieces
with a bone saw — a killing that U.S. intelligence determined was greenlit by MBS."
"In this era, honor is a byproduct of wealth.
Attendees at last night’s White House dinner honoring MBS were all doing business
with him and Saudi Arabia. What about his responsibility for Khashoggi’s murder?
Hey, things happen."
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/honor-and-shame-in-the-era-of-trump
Comments: It's disgusting to honor the son of a bitch that is MBS. But par for the course for Donald J. Trump.