Pat Robertson on Khashoggi crisis: let's not risk "$100 billion worth of arms sales"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A major evangelical leader has spoken in defense of US-Saudi relations after the apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi consulate, saying that America has more important things — like arms deals — to focus on.

Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, appeared on its flagship television show The 700 Club on Monday to caution Americans against allowing the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia to deteriorate over Khashoggi’s death.

“For those who are screaming blood for the Saudis — look, these people are key allies,” Robertson said. While he called the faith of the Wahabists — the hardline Islamist sect to which the Saudi Royal Family belongs — “obnoxious,” he urged viewers to remember that “we’ve got an arms deal that everybody wanted a piece of…it’ll be a lot of jobs, a lot of money come to our coffers. It’s not something you want to blow up willy-nilly.”

Robertson praised the approach of President Donald Trump, who has publicly cast doubt on the allegations against the Saudis, comparing them to those of sexual assault against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh earlier this month. On Wednesday, after the New York Times reported that it had obtained audio of Khashoggi being tortured, murdered, and dismembered inside the consulate, Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak reported that Trump said that he had requested the recording, “if it exists,” later adding “I’m not sure that it exists.”

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/17/17990268/pat-robertson-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-trump-crisis

[roody]

1. I'm sure Jesus is very proud of him. Eom

[NastyRiffraff]

2. He's a grifter just like his savior

who is Donald Trump, of course.

[NastyRiffraff]

3. He's a grifter just like his savior

who is Donald Trump, of course.

[spanone]

4. fuck you pat robertson. you immoral fuck

[nmgaucho]

5. If hell does exist

That fucker needs to burn in it! What a disgusting human being just like Trump

[Freethinker65]

6. Pat Robertson finally admits the only thing he worships is money!!

[GeorgeGist]

7. The Christianity just oozes.

PS. There is no $100 billion deal.

[Va Lefty]

9. That old snake handler oozes something alright

I have no use for televangelists. Stealing money from the sick and the old.

[htuttle]

8. Pat Robertson urging people to support arms sales to Muslims

I assume he realizes that his followers' tiny pea brains already forgot what he's said in the past. Hell, most of them don't remember last week from this week.

Do you think it's possible that there has been a previously unnoticed epidemic of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome in the US? Only half kidding.

[Paladin]

10. If a white fetus was involved, he'd feel differently..... (nt)

[lpbk2713]

11. Why aren't you dead yet?

Do the world a favor asshole.

[smirkymonkey]

22. Evil never dies.

I am convinced they have all sold their souls to the devil.

[lpbk2713]

25. True, now that you mention it.

[smirkymonkey]

26. He's actually 7,500 years old.

See what I mean?

[keithbvadu2]

37. That's older than the earth according to 'some' Biblical scholars.

That's older than the earth according to 'some' Biblical scholars.

[kacekwl]

12. If not the murder of this one man

how about the murders of 3000 plus on 9/11 Pat ?

[Corgigal]

13. Let's do.

None of that " business" funding is coming to our homes. Unless DU wants to start a gun runners business.

[jberryhill]

27. Many might not understand that reference

Which may cause your post to be interpreted in a very different light than you perhaps intended.

[ProudLib72]

28. People ought to know who Guy Fawkes was

Especially after V for Vendetta.

[Va Lefty]

15. Every time I see Pat Robertson trending on Twitter, I'm disappointed

[Kajun Gal]

16. Such a good Christian. Judas!

[Kaleva]

17. Pat Robertson has never been anything more then a money changer at the Temple

[thucythucy]

18. He's just quoting that well known verse from Scripture:

"Blessed are the arms dealers..."

[gratuitous]

19. Hey Pat, if Jesus were here

He'd flip your table over on top of you.

[Autumn]

20. That deal with the Saudis exists only in Trumps mind.

[bluestarone]

21. The tgrue colors on all these bastards

are shining through!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BigDemVoter]

23. And that motherfucker, Robertson, is supposed to be a "Christian."

[sinkingfeeling]

24. Such a moral leader.

[VOX]

29. Because after JC's "entitlements" of loaves & fish, he handed out AR-15s with bump-stocks.

Thirty-round magazines, too. It’s true, it’s in the New King Trump Bible, Two Corinthians.

[Crunchy Frog]

30. Jesus would prioritize $ for weapons above all else.

And besides, remember how Pat turned away the killer hurricanes, so you know you can trust him.

[Renew Deal]

31. What kind of religious leader wants to ignore a murder over an arms deal?

That some seriously sinister s***.

I bet Pat Robertson would crucify Jesus a second time once he found out Jesus really was a liberal.

[Ilsa]

32. If S.A. only spent $10 billion on arms, would that be small enough?

$1 billion? What, exactly, is your price, Pat Robertson?

[Maine-i-acs]

33. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's

ergo, STFU, false Christian.

[GoCubsGo]

34. Beyond disgusting, but completely not surprising.

Robertson has always been one of the worst of the worst among the religious con men.

[GulfCoast66]

35. In the words of the great John Prine...

“Jesus don’t like killin’, no matter what’s the reason for”

Of course, guys like this grifter don’t really care about the words of Jesus.

Hell, I am not even a believer.

[keithbvadu2]

36. Judas was an early modern day conservative disciple.

Judas was an early modern day conservative disciple.

Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.

Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker and their ilk get millions of dollars repeatedly for selling Christ.

Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale.