October 21, 2018: Trump Doesn't Care about a Murder, if the Murderers Buy Enough U.S. Goods

 

10/21/18: Slowly but surely it dawns on the president. The Saudis have been lying about Jamal Khashoggi. He wasn’t killed by “rogue actors” as Trump originally posited. Saudi statements on Saturday weren’t really “a good first step,” as the president had indicated. 

Saudi oil has long been an interest in U.S. foreign policy.

____________________ 

Am I the only one who thinks that sounds like the logic Siemens applied when the company decided to build the gas chambers needed for the Holocaust?

____________________ 

 

Asked then if he believed the Saudi claim that Khashoggi died in a fist fight, Mr. Trump replied, “I do. I do. Again, it’s early. We haven’t finished our review, our investigation. But I think it’s a very important first step.” 

By Sunday, pretty much everyone else insists Saudi explanations are ridiculous. “They would have been better off saying that Colonel Mustard did it in the library with the candlestick,” one observer insists. 

On Fox News, even Newt Gingrich argues Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can’t be allowed to get away with murder. “First of all, their explanation is insultingly stupid,” he tells Fox News host Chris Wallace. “The idea that this guy walked in the room with 15 security people, got in a fight, and was accidentally killed, and then they happened to have apparently an ability to dismember him and get rid of him that happened to be there?” 

Who could possibly fall for anything so insultingly stupid? 

Trump!

 

Amid a storm of criticism of the Saudis and himself, President Dimwit admits there has been “deception” in the matter. 

Nevertheless, he continues to insist the U.S. shouldn’t be too hard on Saudi Arabia, just because they murdered a journalist and cut off his head. Hey, the Saudis are going to buy a whole bunch of U.S. weapons! (Am I the only one who thinks that sounds like the logic Siemens applied when the company decided to build the gas chambers needed to keep the Holocaust going?) 

Well, Trump is all about jobs, jobs, jobs, and not paying any taxes on the profits he makes from the jobs, jobs, jobs he creates with his companies. 

Last March, he said new Saudi business with the U.S. would create 40,000 jobs here in the U.S. On October 13 he upped that number “slightly,” to 450,000. Four days later the number jumped to 500,000. On Friday, at lunchtime, the number jumped again to 600,000. By the time the president digested his peanut butter and jelly sandwich, he was claiming the actual number was “over a million jobs total.” You almost got the idea he was making it all up.

 

* 

SUNDAY MORNING, Carl Bernstein weighs in on Trump and his penchant for ignoring facts and realities. In an interview on CNN, Bernstein cites Nixon’s lying during Watergate. Trump is different: 

We have had presidents in the past who have lied, there’s no question about that, but what we have never had is a president of the United States who uses lying and untruth as a basic method to promote his policies, his beliefs and his way of approaching the American people and engaging in the world.