Trump Friend Tom Barrack Apologizes For Khashoggi Comment

[DonViejo]

By Kate Riga

February 13, 2019 2:59 pm

Trump confidante Tom Barrack apologized Wednesday for his comment that the Saudi Arabian slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is equal to the “atrocities in America.”

“The killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was atrocious and inexcusable,” Barrack wrote in a statement. “I apologize for not making this clear in my comments earlier this week.”

Read the full statement here via CNN’s Jim Sciutto:

Link to tweet

Barrack made his original comments during a panel in Abu Dhabi, criticizing Western countries’ high-handedness with dictating a “moral code” for Middle Eastern nations.

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[riversedge]

1. Nothing confusing about torturing a man, cutting him up and hiding his body????

[walkingman]

2. Saudi Arabia must pay a price for this or else America is complicit.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. He must have been thinking about what Trump told him he'd *like* to do

which could be equal to the Khashoggi murder.