Trump Fingers ROGUE KILLERS With Diplomatic Passports (And Bone Saw) For Saudi Slaying
Nice Oil Market! Be a shame if you forced Saudi Arabia to tank it.
Don't worry, America. Donald Trump argle bargled ten thousand stupid words to Lesley Stahl last night, but he still has plenty left. He's like the strategic reserve of derp -- we will never run out. Or escape.
This morning the president blessed the press gaggle on the White House lawn with some very serious theories on the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. After speaking with Saudi King Salman, father of de facto despot Mohammed bin Salman, Inspector Gadget has decided that the responsibility for the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi lies with ... ROGUE KILLERS!!!
Speaking outside White House, Trump again goes out of his way to mention Khashoggi's immigration status "I just sp… https: //t.co/TqX8sP8Kcj
— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1539610644.0
Rogue killers with a bone saw. And diplomatic passports. On charter planes arriving and departing on the very same day Khashoggi had an appointment to pick up documents at the consulate. Obviously.
Which Trump knows because he asked King Salman whether his son ordered the murder and dismemberment of the dissident journalist, and he denied it. In fact, he DENIED IT FIRMLY.
Trump is very impressed with how "firm" King Salman's denial of involvement in Khashoggi's disappearance is: "The d… https://t.co/HSpw8yrz7x
— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1539611053.0
Which is just how investigations go. Trump asks Salman/Brett/Roy/Vladimir if they did it, they say, "NO WAY, MAN!" then everyone goes home. And really, isn't that for the best? Are we really going to jeopardize $100 billion of arms sales for a brown dude with a weird name who wasn't even a US citizen? Especially when the Saudis are threatening to quit pumping oil so the price spikes wildly and we all start paying $4 per gallon for gas.
Not convinced? Here's a very measured op-ed in Saudi state-run outlet al-Arabiyah entitled, "US Sanctions on Riyadh Would Mean Washington is Stabbing Itself." Subtle!
The information circulating within decision-making circles within the kingdom have gone beyond the language used in the statement and discuss more than 30 potential measures to be taken against the imposition of sanctions on Riyadh. They present catastrophic scenarios that would hit the US economy much harder than Saudi Arabia's economic climate.
If US sanctions are imposed on Saudi Arabia, we will be facing an economic disaster that would rock the entire world. Riyadh is the capital of its oil, and touching this would affect oil production before any other vital commodity. It would lead to Saudi Arabia's failure to commit to producing 7.5 million barrels. If the price of oil reaching $80 angered President Trump, no one should rule out the price jumping to $100, or $200, or even double that figure.
Jared's BFF MBS would hate if it you made him "throw the Middle East, the entire Muslim world, into the arms of Iran" and blow up the world oil market right before the midterms. Probably best if Mike Pompeo drops by for a quick sword dance and orb rub, then we just let the Saudis conduct their own investigation. Even if the Turks really do have audio recordings of the ROGUE KILLERS from Khashoggi's Apple watch -- cough, cough -- then it's probably best to let the Saudis avenge the death of their own citizen. It's really an internal matter, aside from the fact that the Saudi government ordered the assassination of a lawful US resident, and the murder took place in a third-party NATO ally. Hang on a second, gotta let the cleaning lady in.
#Istanbul Cleaners arrive at #Saudi consulate just as we learn #Turkish investigators 13 days after #Khashoggi disa… https: //t.co/j7C0I1rqmh
— Nic Robertson (@Nic Robertson) 1539597215.0
Anyway, allies shouldn't nitpick! The important thing is that the US keeps sending weapons, the Saudis keep sending oil, and we all agree to jettison any pretense of caring about human rights or the rule of law. Amen, Inshallah, and don't forget to tip yourROGUE KILLERSwaiter.
[ NYT / Al Arabiya ]
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So here is one more of Criminal-in-Chief's Crime partners whom Trump is supporting to save his billions that he owes for his personal business. I wonder how much longer this deplorable Trump supporters especially Republican GYP women and GOP men are going to keep backing this tyrant up. Till Doomsday or the Day of Judgement? May the Evangelists and sodomizing Preachers like Pence and Grinrich be eternally damned along with the Chief Trump.
"Uh, my fellow Americans, uh, I'm speaking to you today to tell you very forcefully that, uh, the Benghazi embassy was attacked by rogue killers. All of our top military leaders, uh, unanimously deny that there was, uh, anything that could have been, uh, done on the ground at the time to, uh, protect the embassy personnel. God bless, uh, America."
(The man said "uh" a lot. He could have said entire paragraphs, pages, reams, an infinity of uh's and still been more intelligible than Orange Doofus).