Thank you Merkel for adding your voice to this coverup by Saudis and Trumps.
What the heck is wrong with the comment pages on all the articles today? I’ve emailed TPM but gotten no response. Just frustrated.
They also expressed their condolences to Khashoggi’s family and friends, “whose fears have now been sadly proven true.”
It’s nice someone finally got around to that.
A UK newspaper last April published a report that Jared Kushner handed MBS a list of the people who have criticized his royal highness in the West. Surely Khashoggi was on it? Will MBS systematically dismember the rest?
Merkel should just call the Saudi’s defense lawyer, President Donald J. Trump.
Richest people in the world have the worst defense attorney ever, The bonus; They can’t fire him.
It’s great that Germany under Merkel has taken up the role of moral leadership in the world that we’ve abdicated under Trump. I can’t begin to express my disgust that Trump, officially, speaks for all Americans.
The “or else” is definitely strongly implied by Merkel. Just waiting for Trump to attack her instead of that murderous goon and friend of Kushner, MBS.
Thank you, Chancellor Merkel, for standing up and speaking out.
I hope other world leaders will follow your example.
(Note: By “world leaders,” I am most definitely not including the execrable President of the United States.)
“As I raise my chopsword, of fine german steel…”
Germany has become the world moral center.
Thank you, Mrs. Merkel…
As long as Merkel is in charge.
This is what happens when you have an intelligent woman leading your country…
She’s been leading the entire western alliance. She’s the only one who can hold that shit together, I think.
When she’s gone, I shudder to think.
There are times the full nightmare of it hits you—the family separations come to mind—and this is one. Waking up this morning knowing the president of the United Damn States can’t rush quickly enough to cover up a grisly murder for his own venal purposes, that’s just too much. Adding literal horror to the shame and disgust, my God, it just keeps getting worse. I’ve worked and sent money, but it’s not enough to assuage the tension. All I can do is hope Decent America is ready to rise up and say, “Enough.” I have reason to think it’s so. But this is becoming unbearable.
So Ms. Merkel does this mean you’re not buying what our Thug-in-Chief and Mr. Bone Saw are selling, well you go girl. And it will esp. hurt these two coming from a woman because we know the high esteem of which they hold women.
And let’s not forget Khashoggi was not a German citizen or resident. So, technically, one might say they have no real dog in this fight, but it’s the moral thing to do. The thing to do when your country has actual values.
We stand for nothing anymore because Trump and his Republican accomplices have made it so. Regaining moral leadership will be very difficult now that we’ve completely and willingly given up that mantle. Why would any country listen to us again in the future? We lock up little kids after abducting them from their families.
If this is true, would that not make Jared an accessory to murder? And add to that, he would be an accessory to the murder of a legal resident of the United States.
Hopefully, Trump will be long gone before the world loses Merkel.
Donald Trump says the Saudis told him “Khashoggi is on a farm in Vermont where he can play with other journalists”, a story Trump says he finds “credible”.
Believe me nobody hopes that harder than I do. I’m so fucking sick of everyone assuming he’s going to be around to run in 2020 I can’t stand it.
Can we just drop the pretense and start calling Chancellor Merkel the real Leader of the Free World.
It sure as hell isnt Donald Trump.