Trump joked about Jamal Khashoggi's grisly murder in phone calls to Saudi prince: report

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Travis Gettys
July 08, 2021

Former president Donald Trump cracked a joke about the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi operatives, according to a new report.

The October 2018 murder of the U.S.-based journalist set off a crisis inside the White House, and Trump personally called Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and his father King Salman seeking answers about the slaying in Turkey, reported Yahoo's "Conspiracyland" podcast.

"The president had multiple calls with MBS and with King Salman, specifically asking them, did you know anything about this?" said Kirsten Fontenrose, then the director of Gulf affairs at the National Security Council. "The president would flat-out ask, I mean, up to a dozen times on any individual phone call, whether it was with King Salman or with MBS or both of them, 'Did you have any knowledge of this operation?' 'Did you know this was going to happen?' 'Did you give this order?'"

The royal duo repeatedly insisted they knew nothing of Khashoggi's murder and assured Trump, using his first name, that they would fully investigate the crime, but the ex-president became fixated on the conclusion by U.S. officials that the Saudi-born journalist's body was hacked up with a bone saw.

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jamal-khashoggi/

[Walleye]

1. For being such a con man, Trump is the biggest chump

Also one of the more bloodthirsty individuals I’ve ever heard of

[Hugin]

2. TFG's flippancy on the matter made the Khashoggi murder one of the top four reasons...

the Democrats took the House in 2018. I'm convinced.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Freak

He gets off on other folks’ suffering.

[moondust]

5. The Cruelty Is the Point

Interestingly, this article appeared in The Atlantic one day after Khashoggi's murder and will be released as a book next week, on July 13:

President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/

Khashoggi wrote columns for the hated enemy of TFG: Washington Post/Bezos. Thus, TFG and MBS had a common enemy in Khashoggi. In fact, I would not rule out the possibility that TFG was somehow involved in arranging the murder maybe to please his super wealthy MBS pal.

[colsohlibgal]

4. No Surprise

The “Man” has not one shred of empathy, really anti empathy.

[LiberatedUSA]

6. Anti-Social Personality Disorder

He joked, because the situation doesn’t bother him. When he gets a call that someone in the family passed, he probably forgets about it 5 minutes after the phone call and goes to have a burnt steak with ketchup.

[zuul]

7. Of course he did.

If TFG wanted to know what really happened, all he had to do was ask Jared.

That f*ucker Jared knows exactly what happened and how MBS got intel on Khashoggi’s movements.

[Blue Owl]

8. He's a depraved, sub-human piece of shit

Why must we be scourged with this abomination who is still in the political landscape?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Who is surprised by this?

[The Unmitigated Gall]

10. The Orange Skidmark

WOULD have been fascinated by the lurid “bonesaw” details of the case, in perfect consistency with his sadistic scumbag personality.

[marble falls]

11. If only this was the worst thing he did. I will be so pleased when his first personal indictment ..

... falls sometime this late fall.