Bolton Won't Listen to Khashoggi Tape: 'I Don't Speak Arabic'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



National security adviser John Bolton told reporters Tuesday that he doesn’t need to listen to the tape of Jamal Khashoggi’s death because it’s in Arabic, which he does not understand. “No, I haven’t listened to it. Why do you think I should? What do you think I'll learn from it?” Bolton told reporters. “Unless you speak Arabic, what are you going to get from it?” When asked why he couldn’t listen to it along with a translator, Bolton said he was confident in the intelligence given to him by those who do understand Arabic. Later in the press conference, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the White House has yet to see “definitive evidence from the intelligence community” that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in the Washington Post columnist’s death in October. Khashoggi was killed after he entered Istanbul’s Saudi Arabian consulate, and the CIA has reportedly concluded the crown prince ordered the killing.

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I guess the Trumpistas fired all the Arabic speakers in the country; the ones working for the NSA, the ASA, the CIA, etc., etc.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. One does not have to speak Arabic.....

to hear that a man is being murdered.

Bolton is as stupid as the man he ass kisses.

[DonViejo]

2. Personally, I think the whole damned lot of them are stupid con artists. eom

[Initech]

3. It's like these people wake up (assuming they sleep at all) and are like:

"How can I be that much of a colossal dick today?".

[Perseus]

4. He is just doing the Ostrich thing of hiding your head in the sand

He doesn't want to hear what he knows is a horrific crime that implicates the "prince" and maybe his boss as well.

[groundloop]

10. And also implicates his bosses son and son-in-law

What a fucking bunch of low-lifes.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. No translation necessary for the rasping sound of the bone-saw, ...

no translations necessary for the screams of the tortured captive.

Better to pretend that the incoming checks are written in oil, not blood.

[JDC]

6. These men are cowardly enablers of the worst kind.

The don't deserve to serve this country oin any manner. They sicken me.

[DonViejo]

7. But they're very ready to send our sons and daughters to their wars..

Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, etc. Until recently, Bolton was all gung-ho to level North Korea.

[riversedge]

8. You fool Bolton--It has been reported that Khashoggi speaks English and was yelling

during the tape. You big sack of shit.

[RainCaster]

9. I don't speak Jack-Ass, so I can ignore Bolton and DFT, right?

[duforsure]

11. They intentionally are refusing to watch it,

Both Bolton and trump because they still want to deny it happened, and can still say it may or may not have happened.

[Marcuse]

12. Perhaps Trump and Bolton really are too squeamish to listen, but that would require some empathy.