Posted on 10/21/2018 2:42:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some conservatives have been peddling smears against missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in an effort to cushion President Donald Trump from blowback over his handling of the situation with Saudi Arabia, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Efforts to raise questions about Khashoggi have made their way to Capitol Hill, where a group of House Republicans have been circulating articles from conservative outlets that tie the missing journalist to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden, the Post reported.
Among those circulating such claims is Donald Trump Jr., who last week retweeted an unsubstantiated claim insinuating Khashoggi is a terrorist sympathizer.
The series of tweets that Trump Jr. retweeted included a post with an image showing Khashoggi, a prominent journalist in the Middle East, appearing beside individuals identified as members of the Islamist group and holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. A separate photograph in the article shows Osama bin Laden and some of his associates. Bin Laden co-founded al Qaeda in the late 1980s.
Khashoggi covered al Qaeda as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan and Sudan and was well-known for his several interviews with bin Laden. He distanced himself from bin Laden after the September 11 terrorist attacks. At the time of the news article posted, the United States was arming and funding the mujahedeen in the Soviet-Afghan War.
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“Conservatives: Washington Post creating Khashoggi narrative to raise doubts about Trump.”
Yep, and he was only one of several. I'm not sure why Khashoggi went into the Saudi Embassy in Turkey, but he had to know there was some risk involved.
Braky has a whole Navy Seals Team shot down by having them put on a slow transport chopper over a known enemy zone and, again, crickets from the media.
Protect Trump from what? So far with investigations on him for over three years from we don’t know how many organizations or private lackeys, and not one iota of evidence has surfaced about anything that Trump did illegal or even wrong. CNN needs to consider protecting themselves from lying on a regular basis about anything and everything. CNN is almost a non-entity since MSNBC has learned to create such sensational lies they get the ink. So CNN can’t even lie well enough to make a story big enough to be noticed by the public. And for an organization that all they do is “news,” that is embarrassing and costly as their sponsor are not being seen. They’re a joke.
rwood
Lol!!
Yeah this murder coulda resulted from Trumps joke about the Montana politician who body slammed a nebbish fake newser
Oh the hugh and series attack on a free ( well, bought and paid for) press
So they’ve gone from Russia Russia Russia to Saudi’s Saudi’s Saudi’s. The media can go to hell No one cares about their propaganda except crazy leftists.
Protect Trump from what? So far with investigations on him for over three years from we don’t know how many organizations or private lackeys, and not one iota of evidence has surfaced about anything that Trump did illegal or even wrong. CNN needs to consider protecting themselves from lying on a regular basis about anything and everything. CNN is almost a non-entity since MSNBC has learned to create such sensational lies they get the ink. So CNN can’t even lie well enough to make a story big enough to be noticed by the public. And for an organization that all they do is “news,” that is embarrassing and costly as their sponsor are not being seen. They’re a joke.
rwood
Khashoggi was a piece of garbage. The Saudi’s just took out the trash. Nothing to see here.
Not to mention any Republican over the last 40 years.
The American media care about someone who isnt even an American citizen.
While they ignore thousands of Americans dying in this country every day.
They arent worthy of our respect.
Peddling smears? Who had ever heard of the guy before this happened? The only ones that care are the deep state bought and paid for fake news agencies.
How does it affect your life or mine thaf hes dead?
America isnt even remotely implicated in his demise. The smear Trump was behind it is despicable.
Then again the Democrats and fake news media will do anything to discredit the President.
The Muslim Brotherhood is no worse than the Wahhabi terrorism coming from Saudi Barbaria the past 30 years. Arguably, it is less dangerous.
your head is in the sand
I I didnt know liberals are so concerned about freedom in the Middle East.
Its as fake as their new-found concern for sexual assault survivors.
If Trump wasnt President no one would ever heard about Christine Blasey Ford or Adnan Khashoggi.
Theyre liberal astroturf issues. Nothing about them was real.
Wow, the Washington Post and CNN, two of the most unethical, biased and lying sources of information combining to put out more trash news. Hardly sources of reliable information.
Honestly, does anyone really care about this guy? Or, is it all political garbage?
Like I said, astroturf issues arent real. They are made up to suit the political needs of the moment.
Nothing spontaneous or organic in nature about them here. None of its real, like artificial grass isnt real.
I’m so tired of the MSM talking about this guy 24-7.
Relevant facts are relevant facts.
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