President Donald Trump broke with his usual antagonistic rhetoric toward the media during a segment of a “60 Minutes” interview released Saturday morning.
Trump acknowledged there was a “lot at stake” over the disappearance of the Saudi writer, whom the Turkish government claims was murdered by Saudi Arabian officials, but said his status as a reporter makes the crime — if true — even more egregious.
“Well there’s a lot at stake, there’s a lot at stake. And maybe especially so because this man was a reporter,” he said. “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 so we’re going to have to see. We’re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment.”
"There will be severe punishment." In his first 60 Minutes interview since taking office, President Trump tells Lesley Stahl that if Saudi Arabia is found to be responsible for journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death, there will be consequences. https://t.co/BRZfIPHbNY pic.twitter.com/s6X98AylBR
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 13, 2018
Someone obviously put a bug in Trump’s ear to say the right thing, but no, there is nothing in Trump’s history to suggest there will be any significant consequences for KSA. Just the way he slow rolled sanctions on Russia, he’ll sweep this under the rug after the midterms.
This is the same guy penning in reporters at his rallies like a herd of cattle and calling them “enemies of the people”. You don’t get to just walk that back as if we have no functioning limbic system.
Fake news only comes from bad reporters so I don’t see why tRump would care about the man at all
going to be interesting watching him snivel his way through this episode considering he is the last guy on the planet who wants to slap the saudi prince for being a bad guy.
All bolivating gibberish tongue tied backasswards rhetoric to get out the other side asap.
right before the election no less
“… for whoever made up this FAKE story about a FAKE murder of a FAKE reporter.”
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