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One would wonder if what happened to the WaPo journalist was Saudia Arabia providing indirect payback for Trump. At the very least, that may have been part of
by blazespin 8y ago
One would wonder if what happened to the WaPo journalist was Saudia Arabia providing indirect payback for Trump. At the very least, that may have been part of the logic. "Oh, it's fine, Trump hates the Washington Post as well"
- joe_the_user 8y agoJamal Khashoggi was much more than a journalist, he was power player in Saudi Arabia. You might have heard of his uncle, Adnan, known as the world's largest arms dealer when he was alive. Over the last six-months-to-a-year, ruling prince MBS has followed the program of whipping the Saudi Ruling class into submission (metaphorically and literally, with electrical chords). Part of the problem is the princes were stealing so much money that the state of this incredibly wealthy, absolutist theocracy was approaching bankruptcy. Khashoggi left the country at that point and was acting as something like external opposition to MBS, clearly something the prince would not brook. None of this is to lessen the final brutal act but rather to explain it. If anything, the Saudis are probably extra pissed at the Post for "harboring" Khashoggi.