Trump Says King Salman’s ‘Rogue Killers’ Theory On Khashoggi Death Is Entirely Plausible

In case it wasn't clear enough already (and it most assuredly was), Donald Trump is going to go out of his way to avoid jeopardizing America's relationship with Saudi Arabia as political pressure mounts on the U.S. to punish the Saudis for the disappearance of dissident Jamal Khashoggi. Early Monday, Bloomberg reported that King Salman ordered a Saudi public prosecutor to investigate what happened to Khashoggi. Apparently, that investigation will be undertaken with the "help" of Turkish intel

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5 thoughts on “Trump Says King Salman’s ‘Rogue Killers’ Theory On Khashoggi Death Is Entirely Plausible

  1. This is straight out of Putin’s ‘playbook:’ Order the hit; have security ‘agents’ do the dirty deed; deny, deny, deny; invent an implausible alternative explanation (alternative universe).

    Trump supports it all, despite public outrage, saying he (implausibly) believes the dictator, even offering more dubious explanations and fake alarm and meaningless, superficial action (putting the Secretary of State on the plane to go to the dictator to hear the denial face to face), while doing nothing ‘material’ to punish the ‘evil-doer(s).’