Republicans smear murdered journalist to cover for Trump
By Caroline Orr - October 19, 2018
Trump's allies are orchestrating a smear campaign against Jamal Khashoggi to take the heat off Trump for his failure to hold Saudi Arabia accountable.
In a sick new form of victim-blaming, Republicans and right-wing pundits are mounting a smear campaign against murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in what appears to be a twisted effort to shield Trump from criticism of his poor handling of the scandal.
Citing four anonymous GOP officials, the Washington Post reports that “a cadre of conservative House Republicans allied with Trump has been privately exchanging articles from right-wing outlets that fuel suspicion of Khashoggi,” an apparent first step in a coming character assault.
What started as a behind-the-scenes “whispering campaign” has begun to spill over into the public eye as pro-Trump media figures and platforms — including Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump Jr., Front Page, Fox News, and several prominent voices on social media — have started to amplify the attacks and conspiracy theories about Khashoggi, who was reportedly murdered and dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Instanbul under orders from the Saudi crown prince.
The smears, which have been amplified by pro-Saudi accounts on Twitter, “are aimed in part at protecting Trump” and supporting his refusal to confront his allies in the Saudi regime about the slain journalist, the Post reports. On Thursday, Twitter removed a network of pro-Saudi automated accounts (“bots”) that were spreading false claims about Khashoggi.
https://shareblue.com/right-wing-smear-campaign-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia/
What is remarkable is that if one of these right wing fascist asshole republican family member was a journalists and was a a US Citizens, or person that claimed permanent residence in this country and this happened to there family member, would they still do this shit........................and feel the same way...........................they are now full fledged terrorist backers of a regime, that lost me and thousands of others there job at United Airlines and American, on 9/11.....................the same fucking King that was around when this happened and has the blessing of of his psychopathic son, some fucking prince..................and then there is the Kuscher factor in this shit...........................state sanctioned murder......................and not even counting Yemen........................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................vote
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