Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, argued Tuesday for maintaining a close diplomatic relationship with Saudi Arabia, despite the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, because “journalists disappear all over the country.”
“We have to have a relationship with some players that we don’t agree with,” Stewart told CNN’s Brianna Keilar. “Journalists disappear all over the country. Twenty journalists have been killed in Mexico. You don’t think it’s happened in Turkey and China? Of course it does, and yet we have to have a relationship with these individuals— or with these countries.”
.@RepChrisStewart argues for maintaining a diplomatic relationship with Saudi Arabia: "Journalists disappear all over the country." pic.twitter.com/s0ifKjav0g
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) December 4, 2018
H/t Mediaite.
The voters of UT-2 ought to disappear this piece of shit’s career.
I’m not ashamed that my mind wandered immediately to Byron York and Maureen Dowd.
Life must be much easier when you have no moral compass.
So basically he’s saying life is complicated, relationships have rough patches, and if we could all stop overreacting to the brutal murder of dissident journalists, then maybe the healing could begin.
Hey asshole Khashoggi paid taxes here in the US, owned property here in the US, and most importantly his children are US citizens. Are you ready to tell all US citizens that if a foreign country kills you over seas, and not in a war zone, we don’t care?