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Marco Rubio: Mnuchin should not visit Saudi Arabia amid search for missing journalist
CNN ^ | October 14, 2018 | Devan Cole and Laura Smith-Spark

Posted on 10/15/2018 6:31:18 AM PDT by C19fan

Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should not attend an upcoming investment conference in Saudi Arabia amid an ongoing investigation into the country's possible involvement in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing earlier this month in Turkey.

"I don't think he should go," Rubio told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," adding that he doesn't think any US officials should continue with their usual business in Saudi Arabia until Washington gets to the bottom of Khashoggi's disappearance. "I don't think any of our government officials should be going and pretending it's business as usual until we know exactly what's happened here," Rubio, R-Florida, said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; US: District of Columbia; US: Florida; US: Hawaii; War on Terror
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To: SoConPubbie; bitt; LucyT; Liz; jazusamo

Quite a bit of information on Jamal Khashoggi cited below. Read the last four (4) paragraphs first.

https://www.voanews.com/a/who-is-jamal-khashoggi/4610403.html

This fellow is tangled up with the Spooks.

Maybe all of this is a CIA psyop and old Jamal is just dead bait.


21 posted on 10/15/2018 6:53:15 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: C19fan

Why is it that all the media covers Rubio’s press statements so dramatically? I really don’t care what he has to say.


22 posted on 10/15/2018 6:56:18 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: reaganaut1

There is no proof that he’s even dead, that if he is that he was killed in the Saudi embassy by Saudis, that the Saudi King had anything to do with it.

There is far more unknown than known.

What we know is that the possible dead guy has not made a public statement.


23 posted on 10/15/2018 7:00:09 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: C19fan

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1051441409037914112.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=internal


24 posted on 10/15/2018 7:00:30 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: C19fan

Trump should send Munchin and have him put that turdling of a prince in his place. Clip his wings, get the Saudi’s to release more oil to the markets, troll the liberals and deliver a message to the world. Winning all around.


25 posted on 10/15/2018 7:03:55 AM PDT by Galatians328
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To: elpadre

Where is the distraught fiancé?

Old Jamal is 59 years old and he has finally found love and needs paperwork for his Turkish bride.


Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post, went into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork that would allow him to marry his Turkish fiancée.


26 posted on 10/15/2018 7:04:15 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: C19fan

We may never know to what extent, but I strongly believe The Roob / or Rube, is fulfilling the roll of an anti-American / anti-Trump AXIS, which is designed to break or eliminate threats to that axis.

This axis is lead by Putin and Erdagon, to eliminate an alterior main energy route to Europe, which would have been outside Moscow/Turk control, and to further destabilize everything south of the current Shia Cresent.

If temporarily successful, this will result in much greater conflict across the region and against Israel.


27 posted on 10/15/2018 7:04:53 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: C19fan

We can always rely upon Rubio to make some snide comments.

Rubio is such a fool.


28 posted on 10/15/2018 7:04:55 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: C19fan

We may never know to what extent, but I strongly believe The Roob / or Rube, is fulfilling the roll of an anti-American / anti-Trump AXIS, which is designed to break or eliminate threats to that axis.

This axis is lead by Putin and Erdagon, to eliminate an alterior main energy route to Europe, which would have been outside Moscow/Turk control, and to further destabilize everything south of the current Shia Cresent.

If temporarily successful, this will result in much greater conflict across the region and against Israel.


29 posted on 10/15/2018 7:05:03 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: C19fan

We may never know to what extent, but I strongly believe The Roob / or Rube, is fulfilling the roll of an anti-American / anti-Trump AXIS, which is designed to break or eliminate threats to that axis.

This axis is lead by Putin and Erdagon, to eliminate an alterior main energy route to Europe, which would have been outside Moscow/Turk control, and to further destabilize everything south of the current Shia Cresent.

If temporarily successful, this will result in much greater conflict across the region and against Israel.


30 posted on 10/15/2018 7:05:28 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: xzins

he’s probably down the drains of the Saudi equivalent of Brooklyn’s Gemini Club by now.

No one should be surprised that a barbarous regime would act barbarously.


31 posted on 10/15/2018 7:07:53 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: C19fan

Marco should round up his Senate and house pals and pass a resolution on sanctioning Saudi Arabia.


32 posted on 10/15/2018 7:09:48 AM PDT by Fhios (♫ Oh Where have you been Jeffy boy Jeffy boy oh where have you been charming Jeffy?)
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To: C19fan

Of course the goals of the Putin/Erdagon/Shia Axis are indistiguishable from the anti-American/anti-Trump left wing Demons and satanic media/press on our side of the pond.


33 posted on 10/15/2018 7:11:57 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: SoConPubbie

Little Marco once again spitting into the wind.


34 posted on 10/15/2018 7:14:57 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: C19fan
Khasoggi is not an American citizen so Saudi Arabia offing someone who knew too much does not concern us. A German newspaper has an article claiming Khasoggi is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

I have no use for the Saudis, but if a sovereign nation stifles dissent by imprisoning or even murdering their own citizens, that's their own internal affair, not ours. Basing foreign policy on feel-good "human rights" concerns (or pretending to) is childish and naïve.

There are good reasons to target the Saudis with sanctions - first and foremost the fact that they give money and authority to radical Wahhabi clerics (who in turn send that money to radical fellow Islamists around the world), but a missing or dead journalist shouldn't even be on the radar.

35 posted on 10/15/2018 7:15:24 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: C19fan
It does concern us. We're hopelessly entangled. We should've disentangled from Saudi Arabia because of 911. Instead of keeping the nutcases away from weapons and in their own countries, we arm them and let them reside in the US.

How much economic damage could the House of Saud do to the US? It's not a good situation.

36 posted on 10/15/2018 7:16:12 AM PDT by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: C19fan

Rubio offers much advice for a man who doesn’t matter.


37 posted on 10/15/2018 7:17:11 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: C19fan

The guy is dead...

There is apparently audio - if not video of it.

I read that he turned on a recording device before he went in. A device that automatically uploaded to the internet.

And they frantically searched for a way to delete it including trying to log on using his fingerprint from his dead body.

You can find out all kinds of stuff on the interwebs.


38 posted on 10/15/2018 7:19:50 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: C19fan

The ineligible Rubotio should have been deactivated after his Amnesty Gang activities.


39 posted on 10/15/2018 7:24:30 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mr. K

What crawled up Rubio’s butt and died? Most of the party either moved to Trump or are moving to Trump. Marco holding out hope that one day he will be President is long gone.

Marco, you are either with us or against us. Your choice.


40 posted on 10/15/2018 7:25:37 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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