Cabinet official brags that no one protested Trump in Saudi Arabia, where protesting isillegal

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In a Monday morning appearance on CNBC, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross touted that, during President Trump’s visit Saudi Arabia, “there was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there.”

Pressed by the anchor, Becky Quick, that the lack of protests could be attributable to Saudi Arabia being a police state where protesting is banned, Ross brushed it off.

“The mood was a genuinely good mood,” Ross said. As proof he offered that Saudi state security personnel gave him “two gigantic bushels of dates,” which Ross said was “a from-the-heart, genuine gesture.”

A recent study by Human Rights Watch found that Saudi Arabia “continued arbitrary arrests, trials, and convictions of peaceful dissidents.” According to the report, in 2015, “over a dozen prominent activists convicted on charges arising from their peaceful activities were serving prison sentences.”

https://thinkprogress.org/ross-protest-trump-saudi-arabia-5ea7f5cc2ee8

[WinstonSmith00]

1. Like dubya said

Being a dictator would be a whole lot easier.

[DesertRat]

2. Stunningly ignorant comment from a Harvard educated businessman

Could it be because protesters are jailed and sometimes beheaded?

[malaise]

3. Not one of them gives a flying fugg

about the US Constitution. They'd love to shut down protests in the US. Everyone should expose these authoritarian clowns.

[Solly Mack]

4. Dumbass

[nikibatts]

5. No one wanted to be beheaded.