CBS:
President Donald Trump said in an interview with 60 Minutes that the Saudis could be behind the disappearance of missing journalist and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, and if so, the U.S. would inflict "severe punishment." In a clip broadcast on "CBS This Morning," Mr. Trump said there is a lot at stake "and maybe especially so because this man was a reporter."
The interview is his first with 60 Minutes since his post-election conversation with Lesley Stahl in November 2016. It will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Sunday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7:00 p.m. PT on CBS.
Mr. Trump said the Saudis denied "in every way you can imagine" having anything to do with Khashoggi's disappearance when his son-in-law Jared Kushner spoke with Saudi Arabia's crown prince. But Mr. Trump said the country may still be responsible and an investigation is ongoing. "Could it be them? Yes," the president said.
When asked what kind of punishments he may pursue if Saudi Arabia is found to be behind the disappearance, Mr. Trump wouldn't commit to sanctions or cutting sales of military equipment to Saudi from American companies.
"I'll tell you what I don't want to do," Mr. Trump said, "I don't want to hurt jobs. I don't want to lose an order like that. And you know what, there are other ways of punishing."
"There's a lot at stake," Mr. Trump continued. "And, maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. There's something, you'll be surprised to hear me say that, there's something really terrible and disgusting about that if that was the case."
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This murderous act by Bin Salman, Trump and BiBi's natural ally calls for severe, back-breaking oil and other sanctions and the cutting off of Saudi Arabia from SWIFT financial network, starting on Nov. 4th.
The coming days are quite interesting to watch how this whole thing will evolve... US$110 billion of military sale to the Wahabi kingdom keeps the bar too high for any high-jumping monkey, including Donnie...
Given Trump and Jared Kushner’s close relationship with Bin Salman, and their constant attacks on Khashoggi’s employer, The Washington Post, Trump will find a way to walk away from this one and blame it on Obama!
I would guess that Trump will say that Khashoggi’s green card was invalid and his death will create jobs for Americans.
So, let’s hope regime change to begin at home.
There will be punishment only if the Saudi BS stops booking rooms in tRump hotels and resort or terminate the office they are renting in tRump tower. As long as this charlatan is enriching himself from Saudis, he would not rock the ship.
Muller is making America great again
tRump is helping to make Russia great again
Reject occupation, If the bar code starts with 7 29 put it back on the shelf
Buy American, say NO to Chinese madeTrump
“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King
I believe U.S senate needs to impose air tight sanctions against Saudi Arabia. Sanctions work get to it or something along those lines.
As I anticipated here, Trump will change the topic from murdering of an innocent reporter to something else. Here is what Donald Jr. floated today by a retweet of a NewCon BiBi Basiji tweet:
"I didn’t realize until yesterday that Jamal Khashoggi was the author of this notorious 1988 Arab News article of him tooling around Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda co-founder Abdullah Azzam. He’s just a democrat reformer journalist holding a RPG with jihadists."
So expect that Trump, his supporters, the NeoCons and the 7x24, Farsi-speaking BiBi Basijis to come out of their hiding places and start commenting about Jamal Khashoggi.