Discussion: Friction Grows Between Admin, Congress About Writer's Disappearance

Trump on Thursday pronounced U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia “excellent” and said he doesn’t want to scuttle arms deals with Riyadh because it means tens of millions of dollars pouring into the U.S. economy. He said the kingdom would simply buy the weapons from Russia or China instead.

“If it turns out to be as bad as it might be, there are certainly other ways of handling this situation,” he said without elaborating.

“Yo, we can’t let the murder of a US permanent resident and applicant for citizenship interfere with the Family business.”

Trump’s private business interests distort US foreign policy to such an extent that he’ll allow foreign governments to, literally, get away with murder.

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Oh, NO!! This might impact Kushner’s Mideast peace efforts. What a loss!!

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How long before Graham starts shouting down any journalistic investigation and asks the “FBI” (CIA) to “investigate” them?

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What makes anyone think that the US will go after Saudi Arabia now, if they didn’t do anything after 9/11?

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Hey, Trump has business interests in Saudi Arabia to protect! Show some respect!

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Well, thank goodness we would never do anything like that to silence critics of the regime. Unless maybe they were black, or something. Fred Hampton - Wikipedia

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Don`t panic , Dumpy will placate the Saudis - he wants to keep getting his commissions on their money laundering .

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and that Leftist Propaganda outfit The Brookings Institute called bullshit

There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday. So far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/06/05/the-110-billion-arms-deal-to-saudi-arabia-is-fake-news/deal/story?id=47874726

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This is a watershed moment. It’s one thing for Russia to kill a foreign media critic, it’s another for a US resident working for an American media outlet to be killed. It’s genuinely scary to think that the probability of a US Administration to do nothing could be 50/50.

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Trump wants international acceptance of the right of sovereigns to kill offending journalists.

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Thanks for the clarification. That is the state of play as I last remembered it. So, what we’re really talking about is not letting a little matter of torture and murder get in the way of business-as-usual with the Trump family.

Did you see elsewhere here where the Turks claim to have audio of the man’s torture and murder?

There really is no bottom to Trump’s depravity. “I could shoot someone on 5th Ave. etc.” Nor to the GOP leadership and base in embracing him.

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I think once a full investigation is finished we’ll discover the New York Times killed Khashoggi.

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We’re learning that the White House had foreknowledge of a plot to take in Khashoggi but nothing was done to alert him in accordance with established rules. With that in mind, this timeline starts to look interesting:

Oct 2 Jamal Khashoggi killed
Oct 3 Nikki Haley writes letter of resignation
Oct 3 Saudis announce ‘disappearance’ of JK
Oct 7 JK story breaks big in US
Oct 9 Haley resignation announced

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You’d think, but I read yesterday Graham is one of the people pushing for a strong reaction. That’s how viscerally they’re responding to this. I think a lot of the people doing the worst crawling still retain the ability to push back when something’s such a fundamental affront to what remains of our dignity as a nation. At least what I read was Graham was part of a bipartisan group pushing to trigger the Magnitsky Act, which was made for situations exactly like this. I know even thinking this is possible violates the maximal cynicism this regime deserves, but people can always be pushed too far, and for this administration to ignore a brazen murder of a permanent resident in order to protect its backroom deals is way, way too far.

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Our collective decency and dignity were surrendered on 11/08/2016. It was manifestly apparent and indisputable, for a litany of reasons and observable evidence, that Trump is a malignant narcissist, an inveterate liar, a racist/xenophobe/misogynist, a mercenary grifter and a sociopath. Yet we elected him, collectively, as a nation, under the laws of our Constitution and founding documents.

Searching for our national dignity is a fool’s errand.

Who could ever imagine a President lying to us?

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“The close ties between the Trump White House and the kingdom were in part forged by a friendship between two young princes:”

Excuse me?? When the hell did Kushner become a prince???

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Hum, I wonder if some friction could be started between Russia and Saudi Arabia, if it’s not already there, since they seem to be number 2 and 3 behind US. And with Putin’s seeming control of Donald…hummm.

Ivanka experienced a toad kissing phase, and BOOM!, there’s Jared, standing on the back patio, still fixated on the flies buzzing around yesterday’s picnic droppings.