Trump Jr. Boosts Smear Tying Missing Journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Islamic Terrorism

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The president’s son, along with conservative media, are using Jamal Khashoggi’s interviews with Osama bin Laden to imply he supported Islamic terror.

Donald Trump Jr. on Friday promoted a smear tying Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi to Osama bin Laden, retweeting a series of tweets meant to imply that the Saudi commentator, who has been missing since last week, supported Islamic terrorism.

With President Trump apparently reluctant to punish Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi’s alleged murder after he entered the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, conservative pundits have been straining to provide excuses for U.S. inaction.

Much of that effort has focused on claiming Khashoggi was a terrorist sympathizer, based on his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and career covering terrorist groups and leaders, including Bin Laden.

The latest attack on Khashoggi’s reputation started Friday with Patrick Poole, a terrorism correspondent for conservative website PJ Media. Poole ran images from a 1988 article Khashoggi wrote showing Khashoggi holding a rocket-propelled grenade with fighters in Afghanistan opposing the Soviet Union.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jr-boosts-smear-tying-missing-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-to-islamic-terrorism?ref=wrap

[samnsara]

1. STFU JR...

[Trust Buster]

2. Just showing his ignorance. Reagan gave military and logistical support to the mujahadeen

During the proxy war that Reagan engaged in with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Bin Laden was a major mujahadeen general. They were U.S. allies at the time. When the Soviet Union retreated from Afghanistan, Reagan left a vacuum in Afghanistan that seeded the Taliban and Al Quaeda emergence. If these right wing nuts think killing a reporter was justified, then many that served in the Reagan Administration deserve worse IMO. Donny Two Scoops Jr. did not receive “the best” education.

[JonLP24]

3. Wahabbism

Comes from the Saudis. So it won't work trying to defend them from "Islamic" terrorism since the ideology comes from them.

[JCMach1]

4. He is spewing a Saudi talking point. They use this trick all

The time to frame political opponents in the Arab world.