Trump suggests 'rogue killers' may be responsible for Khashoggi's disappearance

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that "rogue killers" may be responsible for the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, while also dispatching Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Saudi Arabia's King Salman.

"We are going to leave nothing uncovered," Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House. "With that being said, the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. ... I don't want to get into his mind but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers, who knows? We'll try getting to the bottom of it very soon. His was a flat denial."

Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who had been living in exile in the United States, was last seen in Istanbul on Oct. 2 entering the Saudi consulate to obtain an official document for his upcoming wedding. Khashoggi has been critical of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other members of the royal family.

State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a statement that Pompeo will travel to Riyadh on Monday. "The President has called for a prompt and open investigation into the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi," she said in the statement.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/15/pompeo-meets-saudi-king-900193

[janterry]

1. Every republican in Congress should be asked about this directly

on camera.

They need to be held accountable for this lie.

[CentralMass]

6. There is not a shred of integrity in the republican congress.

[yuiyoshida]

18. Bingo!

[Progressive Jones]

38. They won't. GOP members have no balls. nt

[olegramps]

2. His penalty will be refusal to sell the Saudis a 1 million condo requiring 2 million or more unit.

[RKP5637]

3. And as if anyone can believe anything from a compulsive liar. n/t

[pandr32]

22. That's what should be said to him...

when he makes these outlandish claims. Whoever is talking to him should ask, "why should anyone believe you are telling the truth?" Confront him with the fact he is a compulsive liar. That would take him off his pretend presidential pedestal on the spot.

[cstanleytech]

4. Funny, earlier I said he would try to come up with a strategy to cover this up

and it looks like I was right.

[jayschool2013]

5. One of two possibilities

MS-13 in Turkey, or Killary. Am I right?
(This is where the sarcasm emoji goes.)

[BeyondGeography]

7. So we're looking for the real killers now?

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[modrepub]

20. Yea

It's the same crew looking for Obama's birth certificate. Maybe he can talk with OJ and hire the people he has looking for Nicole's killers to help out.



Sorry in advance if this is in bad taste (because it is).

[llmart]

8. "The President has called for a prompt and open investigation"...

that is limited in scope and to be completed in less than a week."

[usaf-vet]

11. Kavanaugh style?

[llmart]

12. Yep.

We already know there isn't a thing out of his mouth anyone can believe.

[trusty elf]

9. House of Sawed

[usaf-vet]

10. Let me get this straight "rouge killers" are able to just wander around in the Saudi Consulate.

More Trump bulls**t! Or, as the rest of the world knows, lies from the chief liar in the oval office.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. who knows? Well, maybe. Sure. They don't record the video, so who knows?

There could be rouge killers, blanc killers, bleu killers, killers on all sides. Many WaPo journalists are probably killers. Because Bezos.

[Snellius]

13. A "rogue killer" just wanders into Saudi embassy in Turkey and randomly shoots

anyone wearing glasses just for the hell of it? Must be MS-13.

[matt819]

14. He mighta been killed by a 400 pound guy in his mother's basement

Sure, he talked tough - severe punishment if the Saudis killed him.

Of course he would find that the Saudis didn't kill him.

Of course the FBI didn't find evidence of Kavanaugh's sexual assaults.

When you don't look, you don't find.

[chowder66]

31. It was 15 guys under a trench coat passing as a 400 lb guy. nt

[ewagner]

15. I'lll repeat my prediction from last week:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2178424

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. 15 "rogue killers"? Including a colonel in Saudi intelligence? And the consul?

Pro-government Turkish newspaper Sabah said it had identified a 15-member team of suspected Saudi agents who flew into and out of Istanbul on the day of the disappearance.

One of the men, Maher Mutreb, served as a colonel in Saudi intelligence and was based at the country's embassy in London, the BBC understands.
...
One of the vans is reported to have taken some of the men from the consulate to the nearby residence of the Saudi consul about two hours after Mr Khashoggi's arrival.
...
Turkish employees at the consul's residence were also "hastily" told to leave on the day Mr Khashoggi disappeared, according to Sabah.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45812399

If that many had "gone rogue" with that level of support at the consulate and from the consul himself, then the Saudi family would be worrying about a coup.

[delisen]

17. It was some sitting on his bed who weighs 400 lb-

could be that hacker Trump suggested hacked the DNC.

Trump is like the suspects in the Detective Columbo series episodes who thinks he is smarter than everyone and is getting away with murder.

Columbo always asks if they know how someone might have committed the crime; the suspects always fall take the bait and make some suggestions......and eventually Columbo uses their suggestions to reel them in.

I think we are going to reel in this suspect.

[mobeau69]

19. If it was a rouge killers

me thinks the Saudis would've called the authorities.

[Javaman]

21. and here comes the paper job to cover the saudis nt

[watoos]

24. Calm down everyone,

I heard that Trump is so serious about investigating this that he is going to pull some of the investigators he has in Hawaii looking into president Obama's bc. Now, folks that is getting pretty serious.

Invoke the Magnitsky Act Congress, oh wait, they are on vacation until after the election.

[erpowers]

25. Because Everyone Who Does Something Wrong Amits Wrongdoing

Donald Trump should really believe the king of Saudi Arabia because people who engage in wrongdoing always admit their wrongdoing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. "Rogue killers" just wandered into an embassy?

[Julian Englis]

27. Rogue Killers from the Rogue Nation of Saudia Arabia & Dispatched By Its Rogue Rule N/T

[calguy]

28. Maybe it was the guy who weighs 400 pounds?

[mahina]

29. Probably ninjas. Attack rabbit ninjas. Secret aliens.

Nothing funny about this murder of a fine journalist but our president is an abomination.

[Vinca]

30. I say it was the space aliens. They whooshed him up into the Mother Ship and now he's gone.

[Progressive Jones]

37. This looks like a job for SPACE FORCE !!!

[miffelplix]

32. I don't think Trump should be allowed to use words he can't spell

[whistler162]

33. Obviously a 400 lb. guy in the basement

with a pasta fork.

[joe_stampingbull]

34. I'm suprised that the lying hellbeast

hasn't blamed the Chinese.

[rpannier]

35. Rogue Killers

Good description for the Saudi Royal Family

[Progressive Jones]

36. Trump is kissing the ass of the House of Saud. This is because Trump is a wimp. nt

[LudwigPastorius]

41. Sure, Trump is undeniably a coward, but...

I'd bet this bullshit cover story is fundamentally driven by his personal bottom line...his investments and his business connections.

Oh, the things we'll see if we take the House back and get our hands on his tax returns.

[Maxheader]

39. Sure don't want to point at the saudis, after all

shrub and the rightwinger bastards let them go immediately
following 9-11.

[LudwigPastorius]

40. It's the Saudi Impossible Mission Force!

"As always, should you or any of your Force be caught or killed, the King, the Royal Family, and U.S. President will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This disc will self-destruct in ten seconds. Good luck, Ahmed."

All that TV watching by Trump is really paying off for him.

[Nitram]

42. Saudi Consulate staff wondered about those shady-looking guys loitering in the consulate lobby,

but no one had the nerve to ask.