House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday that though he didn’t find Saudi Arabia’s explanation for journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death credible “at all,” he believed Donald Trump would accept the kingdom’s story.
“We’re never going to have absolute certainty,” Schiff told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “It’s for that reason I think that the President is going to accept the Crown Prince’s denials, much as he accepted Putin’s denials and Kim’s denials.” Watch below:
Rep. Adam Schiff says “we’re never going to have absolute certainty” on Saudi Arabia’s story on Khashoggi.
“It’s for that reason I think that (Trump) is going to accept the Crown Prince’s denials, as much as he accepted Putin’s denials and Kim’s denials” https://t.co/xlnVb5P5nG pic.twitter.com/ME4g7X0yNm
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 21, 2018
Trump seems to have accepted it already, hook, line, and sinker.
He has to accept it. He and Jared helped them come up with it.
My only question is: How do you say “Yeah, that’s the ticket” in Arabic?
Speaking of Jared when there are congressional hearings about Khashoggis death you think he could withstand 11 hours of scrutiny like Hillary did regarding Benghazi? Highly doubtful.
And Kavanaugh’s, and Manafort’s, and Flynn’s, and … ?
Anyway, to use the word “accepted” here is too credulous. What Trump does in most of these cases is not simply to “accept” an obvious lie. That’s too passive a term for it.
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