Khashoggi, Kushner, Trump

[Dill]

(11-20-2018, 04:06 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Trump released an official statement today defending the necessity of the US and Saudi relationship by pointing out how bad Iran is and how good Saudia Arabia is. He said no actions will be taken against Saudia Arabia because we don't know if they were behind it and may never know if they were behind it, but they're a "spectacular ally". Some "foolishly" want to stop an arms deal with Saudia Arabia, but they'd just buy the weapons somewhere else.

This is the sort of thing I mean when I say that Trump is challenge for the right wing rage machine. 

It is analogous to Trump's choice of Putin's word over his own CIA. 

But it is also worse, in that the foremost diplomatic representative of the U.S. and the "free world" has chosen to look away from a murder because it would hurt business if we took that sort of thing too seriously.

10 times worse if, as reported, Trump wants to render legal U.S. resident Fethullah Gulen to Turkey in exchange for backing off MBS.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-real-reason-the-us-wants-to-placate-turkey-over-jamal-khashoggi

NBC News reports that President Trump is considering expelling the U.S. resident and Turkish dissident, Fethullah Gulen, in return for Turkey reducing its pressure on Saudi Arabia over the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
But what's really going on here is that the U.S. wants Turkey to avoid directly accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of ordering Khashoggi's killing.

I hate Fox but will certainly be watching tonight to see how much division there is among the commentators about this. Trump's public ethical lapses, as representative of the U.S., are something much worse than what the RWRM accused the Clinton's of always getting away with behind the scenes because the MSM would not report it or the Clinton's hid it so well.