Trump shrugs off Khashoggi murder during Saudi prince’s White House visit

Old_Joe

Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:

Trump shrugs off Khashoggi murder during Saudi prince’s White House visit

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.

Comment:   bin Salman, sitting in the newly Goldenized Oval Office, looks pretty smug:



These two men make my skin crawl.

DrVenture

That is exactly what I said about Charlie Kirk, "things happen". Oh, well.

Crash

Those two deserve each other. Despicable vomitus. Maybe in hell they'll be doing unmentionables to each other.

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)

hank

I’ll bet that dude is making a big donation to the ballroom. Damn, I wish FD1000 would tell us exactly what we common folks need to do to make a donation and thereby join the ranks of these “select” individuals.

Old_Joe

Maybe if we contributed a 5 gallon bucket of gold paint?

hank

I’d gladly write a check for $1.00 50-cents just to be included on the list. Did you really mean paint?

Observant1

U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) approved the murder
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?

Crash

Discarded? You know the answer to THAT.