‘Saved His Ass’: Trump Bragged Of Protecting Saudi Prince After Khashoggi Killing

President Donald Trump bragged to reporter Bob Woodward about getting Congress to lay off of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1331447

Saved a rich fucking foreign murderer, and thrust covid on his citizens.

Sounds fair.

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He’s helping the terrorists now too lol.

No wonder the Saudi’s love this guy, they can walk all over him.

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I don’t even know where to start anymore with this shit.

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“Do you believe that he did it?” Woodward asked.

“No, he says that he didn’t do it,” Trump replied.

Lmao kill me

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My tired refrains:

  • We should leave these mongrels to be eaten alive by the people they’ve abused in SA for so long
  • Fight global terror: Ride a Bike
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“I was able to get Congress to leave him alone,”

Which members? We need to know who to vote out.

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Well he’s easily bought and now the world knows who owns him…besides Putin

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First, you need to register to vote.

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"I saved his ass.”

“I was able to get Congress to leave him alone,”

That’s what friends are for.

“And you know, they’re in the Middle East,”

Now known as The Land of Eternal Peace.

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The same Saudi Arabia that sent 19 terrorists on 9/11?

That one?

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Or, in Trump’s words, “I saved his ass.”

“I was able to get Congress to leave him alone,” reporter Bob Woodward quotes Trump as saying in 2018, after Khashoggi was dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that October. “I was able to get them to stop.”

Dear The Lincoln Project:

There’s another ad for you to run.

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As long as you are nice to him and give him lots of money Trump doesn’t care what you do to anyone else.

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There’s only one that mattered, and I’ll give you one guess.

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Fair enough. Khashoggi never rented out large blocks of rooms at trump hotel in D.C.

So why would trump stick his neck out for him.

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As he presides over and cares nothing about 190,000+ of his own people dead.

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Makes me wonder what Woodward is saving for 60 Minutes. Given that he held back on so much for so long just for book sales, one might think he’s got something juicy lined up. I know the advanced copies are out there, but maybe he’s got some embarrassing tapes.

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All Dumpster Fire. All The Time.

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I said Khashoggi, not MBS.

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I’m better now.

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