Kushner On Khashoggi: 'We Have To Be Able To Work With Our Allies'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Matt Shuham

October 22, 2018 10:49 am

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Monday that the Trump administration has its eyes “wide open” regarding the death and suspected murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. But, Kushner emphasized, “we have to be able to work with our allies.”

“Right now, as an administration, we’re more in the fact-finding phase, and we’re obviously getting as many facts as we can from the different places, and then we’ll determine which facts are credible, and then, after that, the President and the Secretary of State will make a determination as to what we deem to be credible, and what actions we think we should take,” Kushner told CNN’s Van Jones in a live interview at the “CITIZEN” festival.

“I’ll also say that we have to be able to work with our allies,” Kushner continued, before crediting Saudi Arabia as “a very strong ally in terms of pushing back against Iran’s aggression.”

“We have to be able to pursue our strategic objectives, but we also have to deal with, obviously, what seems to be a terrible situation,” he added.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Why is everyone so upset? It was just one murder. NT

[Maeve]

2. Yeah, and a journalist at that!

[niyad]

15. and not even a citizen!!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

51. Yeah, and a journalist at that damn Bezos' WaPo. nt

[olegramps]

36. When I see him, I can only think of the gangly necked Ichabod Crane.

[ck4829]

49. Makes no sense

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. "... but not those fuckers in the UK, Germany, Canada, etc, etc...." nt

[JaneQPublic]

12. Trump White House definition of "Ally":

"A country that forks over boatloads of cash to prop up our dicey business ventures."

[Scarsdale]

25. Right on!!

How much did Kushner "borrow" for his family business from the Saudis? Most advisors to presidents have many years of experience in politics, and or business.This little dweeb married tRump's daughter/wife, so he gets a top job. Plus they only work 4 days a week, since princess Wankey has to spend Fridays pretending to be Jewish.

[ck4829]

50. Right

[Firestorm49]

4. How can anybody take Jared Kushner seriously?

He would do better to stay at home and threaten his duped tenants who thought there were in rent controlled apartments.

I don’t and won’t ever take this man seriously. This administration is a farce.

[niyad]

17. it was so lovely a couple of weeks ago, when it occurred to me that I had neither seen, nor

heard of, the entitled barbie and ken dolls known as jarvanka.

[CatMor]

5. Waxy, oily Kushner speaking out of both sides of his mouth ..

in reality he doesn't give one damn about Khashoggi's death he finds it a inconvenience. He is owned by MBS.

[maxsolomon]

6. No one said we don't, Jared. No one proposed a binary choice.

But he let the cat out of the bag - SA's fighting a war in Yemen because the Houthi are Shiia and backed by Iran. They're functioning as proxies for the bombing campaign Trump would love to conduct.

Because the US government has an unreasonable fear of Iran we make bad choices and have murderous monarchs as allies.

In the ME, there are no good choices. Every ally has costs in lives and liberty to the people who live, not to mention the moral costs to the US.

[Scarsdale]

26. Yeah, but -

they are rich beyond belief, you know tRump's family kind of allies.

[Docreed2003]

7. In other words

He doesn't care, why should we?

[NCjack]

8. We will remember that when Germany indicts you for bank fraud. nt

[Thomas Hurt]

9. well at least the ones paying the graft.

[brush]

10. "We have to work with our allies, and also get my debts covered."

[C_U_L8R]

11. You have to be able to call murder... Murder

What a spineless asshole

[Solly Mack]

13. Lot of words just to say we don't care who they murdered.

[sandensea]

14. By which he means: I and the Orange Pig have to keep cashing in.

And of course Incestvanka.

[niyad]

16. dear entitled prick ken doll, go fuck yourself with a rusty chain saw. please.

[CrispyQ]

18. But not our European allies, right?

This fucker should be investigated.

[Racerdog1]

19. Little pencil neck fucker

With a squeaky voice is a sickening piece of shit. Needs to be dealt with accordingly.

[LakeSuperiorView]

20. I wonder if there were a lot of missing pets in Jared's neighborhood when he was young....

[SunSeeker]

30. ...

[Botany]

21. My questions for Kushner is did you give up Khashoggi, other people, secret intel, and PDBs to MBS?

Pure Gibberish:

“Right now, as an administration, we’re more in the fact-finding phase, and we’re obviously getting as many facts as we can from the different places, and then we’ll determine which facts are credible, and then, after that, the President and the Secretary of State will make a determination as to what we deem to be credible, and what actions we think we should take,” Kushner told CNN’s Van Jones in a live interview at the “CITIZEN” festival.

[left-of-center2012]

22. "President and the Secretary of State will make a determination as to what we deem to be credible"

[NastyRiffraff]

23. "Which facts are credible"

If they're facts, they are credible by definition. I think I know what Kushner was trying to say, but his phraseology is weird. It's like he has no idea what a fact is.

[logosoco]

33. That line got me as well!

"we will determine which facts are credible"?????? Do they know what the word "fact" means? Or are they just flat out admitting they don't agree with facts that don't fit their agenda?

[keithbvadu2]

24. Many on the Chicago police force and city gov't 'worked with' Al Capone.

Many on the Chicago police force and city gov't 'worked with' Al Capone.

Trump, August 2015: I make $40 million, $50 million from Saudi Arabia. I like them a lot.

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1050565595136217088

[blm]

27. Except Canada. And France. And England. And South Korea. And Ireland. And Mexico.

And......

[Scarsdale]

28. So the 3,000 plus

deaths on 9/11 are all forgotten? Kushner must not have had any relatives in the buildings that day.

[2naSalit]

29. Weren't they

the ones who were told not to go to work that day?

Just asking for a friend.

[Behind the Aegis]

41. Who were told not to go to work that day?

The Kushners?

[2naSalit]

42. I suppose...

There have been stories of people who worked in the towers having been warned not to go to work on 9/11, I was wondering if they were his associates.

[GulfCoast66]

43. That's conspiracy theory bullshit!!

Normally used in an anti Semitic way. Not that you intended it that manner. But it does not take much online to find all the posts about all the Jews being told not to be there because the Mossad did it.

You should delete your post.

[2naSalit]

44. Sorry, never heard that one!

I have heard the ones about certain FoBs in finance and the like.

[SunSeeker]

31. Kushner and Manafort should be great jail buddies. nt

[DFW]

32. We DO work with our allies

It's working with countries like Saudi Arabia that causes us headaches.

[PurgedVoter]

34. When do we start being called, the Axis?

Allies seems less and less like the correct term, considering.

[Thekaspervote]

35. Allies you say?? Really??!! Wow.. who's allies..certainly not ours

[Rocky888]

37. They have made Iran the boogeyman to fear the most.

While Russia steals elections for them and Saudi Arabia tortures and murders u.s. based journalist working for a news organization trump/Kushner hates.

[muriel_volestrangler]

39. Shorter Jared: "He may be a monster, but I'm his liaison" (nt)

[Nitram]

40. Where was Kushner when Trump alienated all our NATO allies?

O, right. He didn't mean political allies, he meant financial allies.

[ck4829]

48. +1

[ck4829]

45. Kushner's ally has changed the story... again.

[allgood33]

46. We must be able to get new allies.

Who is Kushner anyway? Who was he 5 years ago but the rich son of a convicted felon and son-in-law to a despicable wannabe billionaire?

[ck4829]

47. Kick