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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is Trump trying to cover up about Khashoggi's murder?
Updated: October 1, 2019 - 1:27 PM
Will Bunch
... no moment in U.S.-Saudi relations was more fraught than a phone call that took place almost exactly one year ago, between the 45th president and the kingdoms de facto day-to-day ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. For nearly two years, Trump and his son-in-law-turned-Middle-East-point-man Jared Kushner had coddled and flattered the young Saudi strongman (and vice versa) ...
On October 2, 2018, something went terribly, terribly wrong. Jamal Khashoggi ... had been lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and then never came out ...
An angry world wanted answers, and Trump was certainly in a position to ask the tough questions when he spoke on the phone to MBS a short time later. Instead as we are just learning now, thanks to some skilled reporting from CNN whatever happened in that phone call was the subject of elaborate effort to shield what was really talked about ...
In the case of Trumps call with bin Salman, officials who ordinarily would have been given access to a rough transcript of the conversation never saw one, according to one of the sources, CNN reported last Friday. Instead, a transcript was never circulated at all, which the source said was highly unusual, particularly after a high-profile conversation ...
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-jamal-khashoggi-murder-cover-up-saudi-arabia-mbs-20191001.html
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What is Trump trying to cover up about Khashoggi's murder? (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Oct 2019
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lark
(23,059 posts)1. He and jared are co-conspirators. MBS did it but he also bailed out Kushner, so it's fine with them
They, like always, are just hiding his and their corruption as well as the part they both played in making the murder happen.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)2. Another quid pro quo?
Saudis did a deal with Kushner, gave him money (quid) in exchange for silence on the murder (pro quo). This was probably only a small part of the deal.
lark
(23,059 posts)3. Sure looks that way doesn't it.
I truly believe in the duck symbolisms. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and breaks laws like a duck it is a law breaking duck - end of story.
Baitball Blogger
(46,675 posts)4. The way Trump is squawking about Hunter Biden, we may be seeing
another case of defensive protectionism.