Stunning - Jamal Khashoggi was banned from Saudi Arabia not for criticizing the Saudis

[NewJeffCT]

but, for criticizing Donald Trump. This article was from 2 years ago, but found it again on Facebook today. I'm sure it's been posted since Khashoggi was murdered, but thought I'd post it again.

A Saudi Arabian journalist and commentator has been banned by his country for criticising US President-elect Donald Trump.

Jamal Khashoggi has been banned from writing in newspapers, making TV appearances and attending conferences, Middle East Eye reports.

After Mr Khashoggi criticised Mr Trump's Middle East policies at a Washington think-tank on 10 November, an official Saudi spokesman said he did not represent the Kingdom in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-donald-trump-journalist-banned-for-criticising-us-president-elect-a7456956.html

[JonLP24]

1. I knew about this and find it interesting

This happened in December just before Trump took office which makes me think he was on Trump/Kushner radar.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. K&R I agree. Trump is a stooge for Big Oil, which includes Arabia

[DemocracyMouse]

27. This is more than interesting - it's deeply disturbing.

Did Trump use the Saudis to actually kill and therefore silence, a journalist working in the US??? And one whose children are US citizens?

THIS SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED.

I’m sick to my stomach.

[Bfd]

2. K & R

[Kingofalldems]

3. I would not be surprised if Trump was involved in his death.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I'm guessing he either didn't tell them no

or outright said "yes" to what they proposed.

[triron]

15. My thoughts as well. Be carefule what you suggest though.

[bitterross]

22. I think you give Trump too much credit. They wouldn't bother consulting him.

I don't think anyone in the Saudi Royal family would feel it necessary to consult Trump. Certainly, not to get his permission.

Their banning him for criticizing Trump instead of them is all optics. They just used Trump as an excuse so they could say they were not tamping down on free speech when it was criticism of them.

[Botany]

26. Jared Kushner was somehow involved w/out a doubt.

n/t

[DemocracyMouse]

28. Yes, KUSHNER BROUGHT THE SAUDIS A LIST OF TARGETS...

... and he did so just before Kashoggi’s murder.

[Botany]

30. And don't know when Kushner did it but I have read that he gave MBS a copy of a PDB ....

.... (Presidential Daily Briefing) that had to do w/our knowledge of the people that
the Saudi Royal family saw as threats.


Lock 'em up.

[duforsure]

4. Did trump know and help approve this

And was involved all along? Was it for American hired mercenaries to use rounding up the princes opposition for him, and by giving them intel on them? Then this was for trump in return?

[NewJeffCT]

6. My guess

as I posted above - is that the Saudis told Trump they were going to do it, and he either didn't say "no" to them or else said "yes" to them.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Considering how tRump has handled all of the fall out...

he is indirectly guilty for the journalist's death. Whether he or Kushner told the Saudis to do it or knew of the plan and didn't stop it, the results was the same. GUILTY!

[Grasswire2]

21. what did Kushner know?

He's the one close to MBS.

[SoCalDem]

8. That was probably part of the "strategy session" that Kushner

had with MBS ...( the trip he took on a commercial jet to avoid press)

That's when "the boyzz" stayed up all night shooting the breeze and discussing enemies....

[triron]

24. He is an evil person.

[BamaRefugee]

9. Wondering how many other deaths trump has been "involved" in and is that why he's so scared of being

indicted?
You don't get cozy with the mob in the construction business in NYC for decades and stay clean.

[pdsimdars]

10. This is important knowledge. I sent it around.

[Achilleaze]

11. That's why republican scumbag Jar Jar K delivered a secret enemies list

to the Saudis - to target enemies of the KGOP and the Saudis

[ananda]

12. I know what I think.

And it really really stinks all the way to
the DC White House.

[world wide wally]

13. There were some very fine people on both sides of the butchering

[Enoki33]

16. It's likely the weapons sale argument is nothing more than a convenient

cover cover for the real reasons tRump supports murderers over the moral integrity of the country he represents. Once again it probably boils down to national betrayal for personal financial gain, and despotic ambitions. Eventually we will all know the truth about how big a douchebag he really is.

[oberliner]

17. What about our past history with Saudi Arabia?

[Enoki33]

31. Just saw this. As far as l know the historical relationship with Saudi Arabia

was, and is, primarily based on oil and weapons sale in the name of regional security. In reality it was to protect cheap oil supplies that powerful US officials had a financial interest in. The 911 response was s stark display of how far reaching Saudi power reached. Currently MBS has simply figured out the selling price of the tRump family and paid it.

[Scurrilous]

18. K&R

[NightWatcher]

19. Did trump order the hit? Or did a Saudi who wanted to give trump a gift do it?

This is so beyond the pale there are no words or metaphors that fit the circumstance.

[Grasswire2]

20. we knew this quite a while ago nt

[spanone]

23. I expect trump was complicit in this crime.

[ck4829]

25. Kick

[dalton99a]

29. "By the way, you know this guy named Jamal Khashoggi who has been writing bad things about me?"

[MFM008]

32. Maggot

Would love to see this happen to ANYONE that criticizes him.

[NJCher]

33. Donald Trump Is An Accessory To Jamal Khashoggi's Murder

This article fits right into the train of thought on this thread:


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-trump-khashoggi-mbs_us_5bf46ff2e4b0eb6d930915db