10/24/18: If you missed it, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, usually referred to by his initials M.B.S., continues to deny involvement in what the president of Turkey has called the “savage murder” of Jamal Khashoggi.
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“Where it should have stopped is at the deal standpoint.”
President Trump
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To prove that he had no role and doesn’t control everything that happens in Saudi Arabia, M.B.S. was filmed offering condolences and shaking hands with Salah Khashoggi, the victim’s son. The son looks “pained” in the film clip, The New York Times notes, but has no choice but to shake the prince’s red hand. He’s forbidden from leaving the kingdom right now.
Critics say M.B.S. now stands for “Mr. Bone Saw.”
Diplomacy, as I constantly repeat, can be a bitch. So, it’s not clear what the U.S. should do to punish the Saudis for this heinous murder. This much is clear. Trump often sounds like a blathering idiot.
First, he complained because people were blaming M.B.S. for
the crime without all the facts available, “guilty until proven innocent,” as
he put it.
Later President Trump said that Saudi explanations for what happened to Khashoggi were “credible.”
Now he says the Saudis are guilty of the “worst cover-up ever.” In an Oval Office talk with reporters he describes the murder like a business deal gone sour. “They had a very bad original concept,” he says of the Saudis, “it was carried out poorly, and the cover-up was one of the worst in the history of cover-ups…Bad deal; should never have been thought of. Somebody really messed up. And they had the worst cover-up ever. And where it should have stopped is at the deal standpoint.”
Yes, Mr. Trump, murder is a bad deal. And you, sir, sound like a clueless, heartless, soulless ghoul.
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