Trump's Lack of Concern about the Murder of a Journalist

[MineralMan]

is just an extension of his calling journalists, "Enemies of the people." He doesn't care. He might well think that the Saudi journalist for the Washington Post "had it coming to him."

We should all be horrified at this. Journalists should be frightened by this. It is not normal, by any definition of the word.

As Trump says, "but we won, didn't we?" How many will die so he can "win?"

[ProfessorGAC]

1. On CSPAN WJ Sunday. . .

. . .at least 4 callers (2 R's and 2 [cough, cough] independents) said this doesn't matter because he's not a US citizen.

That's where their mentality lies. A guy living in america gets abducted and killed and it doesn't matter because he's not a citizen.

The other very common theme among that ilk was "we really don't know what happened yet."

[MineralMan]

2. Not surprising at all. The value of a human life is zero, according

to some. Unless, of course, it is their life that is at risk...

[JHan]

3. I'll never forget his response when he was challenged about Putin ..

"well we kill people too" "we're bad too" , I also vaguely recall the interviewer mentioning the murder of journalists, and Trump responded with nonchalance.

[MineralMan]

4. Trump probably wouldn't even blink at ordering the assassination

of anyone. He's that self-centered and unconcerned about anyone other than himself.

[JHan]

5. Yup, he wouldn't think twice. ..

Especially when it comes to the sort of decisions that tortured former presidents ..tough decisions regarding intervention won't be problematic for him. He won't lose a second of sleep.

Since he's been in office, drone use has increased by 450%, and civilian casualties under Obama pale in comparison to the current record under Trump- and these facts have flown under the radar for the most part. It's surreal to look back at the articles from 2016 proclaiming him to be some kind of dove even after he said he had no qualms murdering the families of terrorists.

[niyad]

6. come on, not like Khasoggi was an American citizen, or fixed noise contributor.

[MineralMan]

7. Yup. He probably wonders what all the fuss is about.

[ProudLib72]

8. What did Salman and Kushner talk about?

Was there a hit list? Was Kashoggi's name on it?

Ignoring my conspiracy theories, Rump is complicit in aiding Saudi's cover up. I think it was on Ari last night (filling in for Lawrence) that all of the different excuse trial balloons were listed, and it appeared that Rump has been following that list over the past few days: "He left the embassy", "Rogue killer", "Interrogation gone wrong".

[northoftheborder]

9. This whole situation, particularly tRump's attitude,

literally has me nauseated.

[Blue_Tires]

10. It's not just "lack of concern"

Trump openly and knowingly aided the attempted cover-up with that "rogue agents" bullshit...

I don't know what the hell is going on in this country anymore... If Obama or Hillary said that, they would have been impeached by now... But it's just another stupid day in Trumpworld...

[ansible]

12. I don't think a democratic president could have done much either though

Let's be honest with ourselves here, we need Saudi oil and no president is going to want to repeat the 1973 OPEC oil embargo again if the saudis screw us over in retaliation. Gas is already over $4 a gallon here in California and it really hurts.

[Blue_Tires]

13. No Dem president would have ever pulled that shit

"I spoke to the Saudi government and they told me that rogue killers got into the embassy and I believe them..."

[0rganism]

11. prince MBS does what Tiny wishes he could do

i hope we don't give him the opportunity