Khashoggi, Kushner, Trump

[Dill]

(10-16-2018, 02:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Hey I never claimed I would be successful in doing so. Just thought the actual issue should be discussed. But I got it. The actual issue is how Trump handles it.

Yes. The president who let the dogs out in in the Middle East and calls the press the "enemy of the people."
How does he handle this international crisis, the killing of a U.S. based journalist by SA, after making SA the linchpin of his Middle Eastern policy?

Not only is it very odd that one country would kill a journalist in its embassy, it is also VERY UNUSUAL that another would call it out. In doing so Turkey has likely exposed critical intel sources, but weighed its options and decided the challenge to SA was worth it.

Suddenly Trump is faced with what some are calling the most important foreign policy decision of his term so far.

But . . . President Trump compares condemnation of Saudi Arabia in disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to reactions to sexual assault accusations against Brett Kavanaugh
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-trump-khashoggi-kavanuagh-saudi-arabia-20181016-story.html

Trump joins Saudi Arabia’s Khashoggi coverup
https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Trump slams mounting criticism of Saudi Arabia as a case of ‘guilty until proven innocent’
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/trump-says-saudi-crown-prince-totally-denied-any-knowledge-of-what-happened-to-journalist-khashoggi.html

Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., a Trump ally, told reporters Tuesday that, “I believe this man was murdered.”

“I don’t think it was a rogue event. Things like that are not rogue,” Graham said. “It seems to be a lot of planning went into it. The crown prince is very schizophrenic; one minute he’s talking about a new Saudi Arabia, and the next minute he’s throwing half his family in jail.”
Graham said that the future of American and Saudi relations on the heels of the incident is “up to the Saudis.”
“I don’t expect to be doing business as usual,” he said. “This is in your face, this is a lack of respect for our relationship, this is an affront to every value we embrace, extra-judicial killing, killing somebody for being a critic. Freedom of the press means a lot to us here in the United States.”

Congress Is Forcing a Confrontation With Saudi Arabia
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/corker-menendez-salman-saudi-arabia-khashoggi-turkey/572752/

Corker, Menendez, Graham, Leahy Letter Triggers Global Magnitsky Investigation Into Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/release/corker-menendez-graham-leahy-letter-triggers-global-magnitsky-investigation-into-disappearance-of-jamal-khashoggi

How will Republican Congressmen react if Trump pushes back against them, and reduces an international human rights issue to "American jobs"?