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By Robert Costa and Karoun Demirjian
October 18 at 9:05 PM
Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a dark whisper campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident journalists alleged murder by Saudi Arabian operatives and support Trumps continued aversion to a forceful response to the oil-rich desert kingdom.
In recent days, a cadre of conservative House Republicans allied with Trump has been privately exchanging articles from right-wing outlets that fuel suspicion of Khashoggi, highlighting his association with the Muslim Brotherhood during his youth and raising conspiratorial questions about his work decades ago as an embedded reporter covering Osama bin Laden, according to four GOP officials involved in the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly ...
While Khashoggi was once sympathetic to Islamist movements, he moved toward a more liberal, secular point of view, according to experts on the Middle East who have tracked his career. Khashoggi knew bin Laden in the 1980s and 1990s during the civil war in Afghanistan, but his interactions with bin Laden were as a journalist with a point of view who was working with a prized source ...
Nevertheless, the smears have escalated. Donald Trump Jr., the presidents eldest son and key political booster, shared a tweet last week with his millions of followers that included a line that Khashoggi was tooling around Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden in the 1980s, even though the context was a feature story on bin Ladens activities ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/conservatives-mount-a-whisper-campaign-smearing-khashoggi-in-defense-of-trump/2018/10/18/feb92bd0-d306-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html?utm_term=.408c339ca07d
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,669 posts)GOPers are fucking monsters.
underpants
(182,752 posts)And turn a former CIA/DEA agent (Spanberger) as soft on crime and maybe just maybe in cahoots with terrorists
Par for the course.
Oh Anita Hill, let's go back and remember that one.