Trump vows 'severe punishment' if U.S. determines Saudi Arabia killed Khashoggi

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Philip Rucker October 13 at 8:28 AM

President Trump vowed “severe punishment” for Saudi Arabia if the United States determines that Saudi agents killed Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, calling the journalist’s suspected murder “really terrible and disgusting.”

In excerpts of a new interview released Saturday morning, Trump said the incident is being investigated and that the Saudis deny any involvement, despite the mounting evidence that the Saudi regime was implicated in Khashoggi’s disappearance last week.

“Well, nobody knows yet, but we’ll probably be able to find out,” Trump said in the interview with Lesley Stahl of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which will air in full on Sunday night. “It’s being investigated, it’s being looked at very, very strongly. And we would be very upset and angry if that were the case. As of this moment, they deny it, and they deny it vehemently. Could it be them? Yes.” Trump added, “We’re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment.”

Turkish authorities say a team of Saudis killed Khashoggi, and U.S. intelligence intercepts show Saudi officials discussing an operation to lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and detain him.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vows-severe-punishment-if-us-determines-saudi-arabia-killed-khashoggi/2018/10/13/dbefa658-cee0-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

[Autumn]

1. "severe punishment"? Like what? He won't dance the man dance with them again?

Bullshit, he will do nothing other than what they tell him to do. He follows the directions of people who can financially benefit him.

[Achilleaze]

14. KGOPee republicans will arrange for Stormy* to spank him

* aka pro mistress of the adulterous & ignoble republican draft-dodger-in-chief,
ye olde Dirty Donny

[Doreen]

40. My stomach is lurching now.....thanks.

[Ohioboy]

2. Severe punishment for whom, the ones that did it or the ones getting to the bottom of it?

In these times one feels the need to ask.

[Freethinker65]

3. A Khashoggi Summit commerative coin?

Followed by a declaration of love?

[christx30]

20. Trump never met a murderous dictator he didn't love.

Kim Jong Un is a ‘smart cookie’.

“People are saying: 'Is he sane?' I have no idea.... but he was a young man of 26 or 27... when his father died. He's dealing with obviously very tough people, in particular the generals and others.
"And at a very young age, he was able to assume power. A lot of people, I'm sure, tried to take that power away, whether it was his uncle or anybody else. And he was able to do it. So obviously, he's a pretty smart cookie."

I don’t know why a Trump is talking all tough here, like he gives a crap about this guy’s murder. He probably wishes he could do the same thing.

[Botany]

4. So will Jared Kushner give back the $1 Billion he got to bail out his money pit in NYC?

n/t

[dalton99a]

5. Bingo

[Maggiemayhem]

7. Ding Ding Ding

[Botany]

9. Jared got his bail out money from Brookfield Management and they got the money from ...

.... the middle east and Qatar but i bet if you track it back further some of that money
came from Saudi Arabia. And like Russia now owns Trump Saudi Arabia/Qatar now owns
the Kushners.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyregion/kushners-building-fifth-avenue-brookfield-lease.html

[watoos]

6. When Trump speaks

it's a proven practice to believe the opposite.

The Saudis are keeping a lot of his properties afloat. No way is Trump going to punish anyone who is giving him boat loads of money.

I can't wait for Jerry Nadler to open up Trump's taxes, November can't get here soon enough. Vote.

[EricMaundry]

8. First you create the illusion of action

... then you do nothing.

Same shit, different day.

[watoos]

10. and the corporate media enables it.

Maybe if they released the torture, killing, and dismemberment it would change the corporate media's narrative? Nah.

[Mc Mike]

11. Flip.... Flop....

Flip..... Flop.....

He'll always settle on the nazi flop side of things, in the end. But in the face of resistance and adversity, he'll change course, tack 180 degrees, back and forth, until he gets back to openly backing the side he wants to.

It's like Fashion, for D Rump and his followers:

It's big and it's bland
Full of tension and fear
They do it over there
But we don't do it here

Fashion, turn to the left
Fashion, turn to the right
Ooh fashion
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
Beep-beep, beep-beep

[Bengus81]

12. More tough guy BS that Trumpanzies love but will bitch if gas goes up

[rickford66]

13. Since they deny it, they must be innocent.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

[R B Garr]

15. He's a mafia boss. You order a hit on someone...

what’s the big deal.

A criminal enterprise operating in our White House.

[watoos]

16. Trump won't have a choice if Congress invokes the Magnitsky Act.

Why only 22 Senators signed on to that? Where is the corporate media asking the other 78 Senators why they condone the murder of a journalist?

Turkey hates Saudi Arabia, hates MBS. It must be shaking SA down for some kind of concessions to smooth this over.

I can't wait for the talking points that comes out of video evidence. Like Groucho used to say, "who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes."

[Sucha NastyWoman]

17. Trump vows 'severe punishment' if U.S. determines Saudi Arabia killed Khashoggi Source: The Washingt

Like maybe he will call a limited FBI(CIA) investigation to investigate specifically what he/Senate Republicans tells them to?

[Firestorm49]

18. Quid Pro Quo

1 Intellegence has already been gathered. It has been publicly revealed through numerous sources that a 15 member hit team arrived in Turkey in advance of Khasoggi’s ( a Washington Post reporter) entrance to the embassy. The hit team is on film arriving at the airport, as was Kashoggi’s entrance to the embassy.
2 It has been revealed that a bone cutter was used in the publicly released information of a video in which Kashoggi was tortured, dismembered, and his remains taken from the embassy.
3 Turkey has been holding a “Christian” (CIA?) preacher / teacher in prison for two years. Negotiations for his release have fallen on deaf ears in Turkey for that period of time.
4 Kashoggi, the reporter from a media sometimes unfriendly to tRump is dead. The Christian preacher / teacher (spy?) amazingly was set free to return to America. Quid Pro Quo.

tRump now says he’s gathering information about the circumstances. Bullshit. It was a tradeoff. The Saudis eliminate a thorn in their side ( right out of the Putin playbook) and we got the teacher / preacher (spy?). Coincidence? Gibbs says there are no coincidences Our government has known damn well the full scope of all of the circumstances related to sacrificing Kashoggi and freeing the preacher / teacher (spy?).

tRump, knowing that none of his core followers know how to read or comprehend “news” and follow his line of malarchy like cute little lambs will buy this plate of crap. “We’re looking into it”. What a crock! Again, he’s counting on the stupidity of his so called base - groupies who have never amounted to more than 34% to believe the Exalted Orange Leader’s babble.

Quid Pro Quo

[asiliveandbreathe]

27. Yes, and yes...this rhetoric will be soft from the pos...saudis have him cornered,,,go too far

and the pos will be exposed....bribery on the mind of Saudis....two countries who hate journalists...attached at the hip.....for years...

This investigation should not be left up to the pos.....journalists, at great peril to themselves, will flush this out...the international journalists that is...

the WH correspondents throwing soft balls - not so much....as you say -

tRump now says he’s gathering information about the circumstances. Bullshit. The only information being gathered is how to spin it...

[ret5hd]

30. Not sure I see what Turkey got out of this?

[watoos]

31. Turkey didn't get anything, yet.

Turkey hates SA, hates MBS. The only reason to have a Saudi team go to Turkey isn't to investigate, it's to negotiate concessions. Turkey has SA over a barrel, we will most likely never know what Turkey gets to soft sell this murder.

[ret5hd]

32. Seems like Firestorm laid out a "one two three four" list...

ending with someone (preacher? teacher? spy?) released by Turkey...kinda implying that Turkey got something they wanted. I'm not seeing it.

And it sure doesn't seem as if Turkey is soft selling this at all. They seem to be the ONLY ones upset at all.

[Achilleaze]

43. Dirty Donny* was supposed to do a White House dog-and-pony show with the preacher today

Sad when you are waving your murderous republican betrayals around as if they were "triumphs." Really sad.



* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[PatSeg]

19. "...looked at very, very strongly."

Trump's use of the word "strongly" is always odd and out of place, as if English is his 2nd language. He over uses the word and often incorrectly.

"I will tell you that president Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."

[asiliveandbreathe]

28. Like, I "strenuously" object - what a jerk - he is a very very evil and ugly pig!

[kimbutgar]

21. Yeah sure you will

[JohnnyRingo]

22. ...after the pin it on Hillary.

"lock her up". hahaha

[asiliveandbreathe]

23. This pos in the WH is likely to throw wet noodles.....I jest...this story of an intercept,

a disappearance, and reported murder of Khashoggi needs continuous digging...the pos knows it..he is and should be in fear of being exposed - he is now boxed in...if he goes too far in search of the truth..it is called BRIBERY exposure....by the Saudis....

The truth will come out..when did he know it....

This investigation should NOT be left up to this pos....The Atlantic has some great writings on this subject...you can bet, our international journalists, will continue to investigate - although, at their own peril....as one story relates..we have two countries who hate journalists.....

I am of the mind, this story, and the tax story by the NYT, and Mueller report will all be connected....

[keithbvadu2]

24. No problem! Just don't 'determine'.

[ewagner]

25. I predict.....

If Saudi's are confronted with audio and video tapes....

the Crown Prince will claim it was a "rogue" element.

he will capture/arrest some number of rogues...whether they were the culprits or not...might be a good way to kill off a few of his enemies too...

he will sentence them to death

he will execute them immediately

and Trump will exonerate him.

[NNadir]

26. What's he gonna do, make them listen to his speeches? n/t.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Will he take away their glowing orb?

[Stargleamer]

33. He lies not only about the past and the present

but the future as well. He lies cover all three tenses.

[catbyte]

34. Y-A-W-N. What sort of "punishment?" Selling them only $250B in arms instead of $300B?

😒

[lark]

35. JAFL

(just another fucking lie)

That is all we ever get from drumpf. He knows Saudi Arabia did it and did it based on info Kushner sent them with the advice to "take care of this traitor". Until he's presented the truth in a form he can't deny, he'll just lie and lie and lie. Even when truth is shoved up his nose like his fave nose candy, he will still lie. He doesn't give a shit about murder, and has been known to threaten it himself.

[Vinca]

36. Severe punishment? Like charging them an extra $10 million for their Trump condo?

[LakeSuperiorView]

37. Well, he'll allow that he was killed, but the Saudis didn't do it...

Besides, he's got a furrin sounding name, so...

[JDC]

38. "I'll give them such a pinch!"

[Chemisse]

39. And soon it will be, "They deny it very strongly, and I believe them."

He's played this game before.

[Doreen]

41. I thought that the vile piece of orange shit did not care

because Jamal Khashoggi was not American? I heard him say that.

[ifihad2]

42. investigation? we'll see ....

hope to be wrong about this but guess it will be pursued like the farcical Kavanaugh investigation, or like Trump's sentiments on the Russian interference investigation where it was enough for Vlad to say, "No, we didn't ... " and Mueller becomes the head witch ... what a joke ... ultimately orange menace probably hopes this scares the hell out of the press ... you know, the enemies of the people ... and don't forget we have orange menace's spawn out there tweeting that Khashoggi is a terrorist ... sounds like he's justifying the murder or kidnapping that the Saudi's are denying ... maybe I'm letting my imagination run away ... don't know ....

[KY_EnviroGuy]

44. What he's threatening to do is...

fly over there and beat Prince Mohammed at golf. But, tRump would lie about the game and let the Prince win to save that $100bn arms deal.

Nothing will be sacrificed that would jeopardize those military-industrial complex jawbs......

[0rganism]

45. Trump threatens "severe lack of rhythm" during future sword dances

[FakeNoose]

55. Cheeto can't do the correct arm hold either

You can see in this video that the other men have entwined their arms with the guy standing next to them. Only Cheeto can't do it right. He looks like he's doing the Electric Slide or something. What an idiot!

[bullwinkle428]

46. Give him 48 hours - he'll blame a 400 lb guy sitting on his bed.

[BlueIdaho]

47. The son of a bitch won't lift a finger. nt

[Nitram]

48. Since Trump never believes his intelligence services, that is an empty promise.

[clementine613]

49. So, he's going to punish himself...

... for arranging Khashoggi's murder?

[littlemissmartypants]

50. Lies, lies and more lies.

Why does the media keep signal boosting this crap?

Thanks for the post, DonViejo.

Wake me up when the headline reads "so called president run over by lawnmower while trying to kill son in law with a chainsaw."

♡lmsp

[CentralMass]

51. Colbert on tRumps "orbs and swords" visit to Saudi Arabia

[duforsure]

52. Coming from a serial liar

Who knew beforehand what was going on. This will backfire badly on trump and the gop. Turning a blind eye to a murder from a sitting President? Looks like it , and saying they'll get to the bottom of it is more telling when he already knows what it all was all about , and what was going to happen. He wants to con people into believing him he cares, when he doesn't, and he'll protect another murderer like he's done with putin , and his killing people in other countries, and done nothing. He's not fooling anyone. Its all just another act for trump.

[GeorgeGist]

54. Looking strongly ...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

56. Trump will do nothing.

1) HE wants to be able to do this himself to journalists critical of him

2) He's jealous he can't get away with it.

[dflprincess]

57. Will we invade Iraq again? nt

[hughee99]

58. I see a sternly worded letter in someone's future. n/t

[cstanleytech]

59. I suspect what Trump will actually do will be he will have some sort of

backroom communication with the Saudis and try to come up with a strategy to cover this up some how.