President Donald Trump said Wednesday that “we cannot let this happen,” after being asked about Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and suspected murder on Oct. 2, when Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul but never exited.
“We cannot let this happen, to reporters, to anybody,” Trump said, after confirming “we want to bring [Khashoggi’s fiancee Hatice Cengiz] to the White House.”
“We’re going to get to the bottom of it,” he said.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday night, citing an unnamed person familiar with the information, that before Khashoggi’s disappearance, American intelligence personnel “intercepted communications of Saudi officials discussing a plan to capture him,” in the Post’s words.
Turkish officials have anonymously accused Saudi Arabia of a planned murder of the prominent journalist and dissident. The New York Times reported Tuesday that Turkish officials believed a 15-member Saudi team dismembered Khashoggi’s body with a bone saw after murdering him within a couple hours of his entering the consulate.
"We want to get to the bottom of it," Trump says of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and possible murder. pic.twitter.com/W8MpjWSS8T
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 10, 2018
Just like Shrub did with the Saudi 9/11 terrorists.
Gotcha…
Trump goes to the bottom of everything, just when you didn’t think he could get any lower.
Some fun conjecture: Saudi assassination squads. Haley leaving UN post. Draw line between two. What did she know and why’d it make her want to get the fuck out of Dodge?
It’s on the list, after the Birth Certificate, et cetera ad infinitum.
Does that mean he will authorize another “limited scope” investigation?..It may be a little bit tough to come up with a list of people to ask who won’t know anything.