Posted on 06/23/2019 8:14:21 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday shrugged off the brutal dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, just days after a United Nations report described how a team of Saudi assassins called Mr. Khashoggi a “sacrificial animal” before his murder.
The U.N. report urged an F.B.I. investigation into the slaying. But in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mr. Trump said the episode had already been thoroughly investigated. He said the Middle East is “a vicious, hostile place” and noted that Saudi Arabia is an important trading partner with the United States.
“I only say they spend $400 to $450 billion over a period of time, all money, all jobs, buying equipment,” the president told Chuck Todd, the show’s moderator. “I’m not like a fool that says, ‘We don’t want to do business with them.’ And by the way, if they don’t do business with us, you know what they do? They’ll do business with the Russians or with the Chinese.”
Just days after pulling back from striking Iran for its downing of an American surveillance drone, Mr. Trump also said he was “not looking for war,” but added that if the United States went to war with Iran, “it’ll be obliteration like you’ve never seen before.”
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So long as they take out their own trash, so what?
In your opinion, or in NY slimes’ opinion, what kind of action should be taken?
Really??? But you are not going to attack Trump for doing business with China, the Philippines, Viet Nam, and a host of other Countries across the Globe???
I didn't think so...
But why didn't you bring this up with about Saudi Arabia when Obama was President??? Are you an Obama/Clinton supporter???
Bravo President Trump!
“What is the Trump doctrine? Kill as many of your own people as you want, as long as you do business with us? “
Typical reaganaut1 anti-Trump garbage.
suppose your gal Hitlery would have been over there extorting billions from them and waging war like a typical democrat.
No thanks. I’ll take Trumps approach on this.
Reagan wouldn’t have waged war over the killing of that slimeball.
So don’t go around putting words into Reagan’s mouth. You’re not Reagan and don’t know the first thing abut the man.
“I only say they spend $400 to $450 billion over a period of time, all money, all jobs, buying equipment,” the president told Chuck Todd, the show’s moderator. “I’m not like a fool that says, ‘We don’t want to do business with them.’ And by the way, if they don’t do business with us, you know what they do? They’ll do business with the Russians or with the Chinese.”
Thanks reaganaut1.
That Khashoggi dude was a jihadiscum supporter.
That our msm is so head over heals about him and up in arms over his death says all that needs be said about our msm.
How do you feel about opening trade relations with Cuba?
And we don't give a damn about 'their' people being murdered either.
The number of working American journalists murdered is - as a percentage - much lower than that of journalists murdered who are not American (or who identified as working with Americans). So this isn't a big deal.
Khashoggi's death doesn't matter (his murder is a statistical anomaly). His death doesn't matter one whit more than the death of a loved American child murdered by an illegal matters to the press. So please New York Times stuff it - we don't care about 'yours' any more than you care about 'ours'...
THE GUY WAS A TERRORIST.
New York Times has no floor when it comes to reporting/slandering President Trump.
If it weren’t for Crossword Puzzles, the paper would have negative class.
We shouldn’t get involved. It’s none of our business.
You have zero understanding of how things “work” in the ME.
Washington Post, not NYT. Just because they agreed to let columns under his name appear, does make him a journalist.
Life in the Arab world can be brutal, K was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and designated as a terrorist organization by most countries in the Arab world.
Saudi Arabia could have kidnapped him and taken him back to SA for a public trial and then beheaded him.
Nobody misses that POS Khashoggi one bit. Maybe you do you poor freak.
reaganaut1 is a NeverTrumper who wants some one else elected in 2020.
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