What is Trump trying to cover up about Khashoggi's murder?

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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 kingdom’s 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 Trump’s 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

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Kushner and Intell?

[montanacowboy]

2. He gave the Go-Ahead

he is neck deep in this

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Not a coincidence

he worked for The Washington Post, IMO.

[drray23]

4. it has been widely report that kushner met with MBS and gave him info on saudis who were

in the opposition. I would not be surprised if Khashoggi was on that list. Basically Trump and co orchestrated a murder.

[Yonnie3]

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