{UAH} Trump says Saudis staged "worst cover-up" ever

Friends

 

This is where Democrats loose common sense. They are on CNN arguing how the Saudi arms deal is not the amount that the president is putting out there. I have heard all numbers from it is only 10 billion, it is only 5 billion dollars, bottom line Democrats do not know how much is the deal but I will help them, it is about 100 billion dollars. What the president did on that visit was to put the numbers on the table, and the Saudis agreed to  pay. But the deal is divided into cash payment and letters of intent. This again is a transactional president he thinks only in numbers than relationships.

 

And Edward Pojim before you attack my posting let me remind you how shallow is the argument of it is only 10 billion dollars. Within that agreement the president signed, he actually signed some money to be paid into Canadian companies, so some of the weapons that the Saudis signed for, are actually going to be manufactured by Canada. On our only side as Canadians we got a contract of just above 20 billion dollars on that trip, and I do not have the real number with me, but it is just above 20 billion dollars in sale now. I do not know what we got in  letters of intent. So if only Canada got 20 billion in sale now why is it a lie for the president to use the 100 billion total dollar figure?

 

By the way the problem is not even only Saudi Arabia buying from other suppliers, but if we cancel it today Canada can be penalized to about 50 billion dollars. So how much will United States be penalized to? And lastly do you realize that if Saudi Arabia buys these weapons out of Russia or China you are endangering all jet fighters you have sold so far to all Arab countries including Israel?

 

Is Khashoggi that valuable to you?    -> Or you have not thought this through and just going after Saudis gaffulah as you did to Brett Kavanaugh?

 

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From: 'Edward Pojim' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community [mailto:ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:16 PM
To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
Subject: {UAH} Trump says Saudis staged "worst cover-up" ever

 

Folks;

 

Left with no more wiggle room to defend his wealthy Saudi benefactors, President Trump is finally calling out the Saudis for the macabre killing of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.

 

The fallout should not be limited to visa revocations, as Secretary Pompeo says. 

 

The culprits, all of whom have been identified, must pay the full price in this terrorist killing. And the author of the murder, be it a King or a Prince, also ought to pay.

 

The Saudis are known to use intra-familial killings as a form of succession plan. This murderous tendency has to be cut off.

 

Pojim

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON/ANKARA (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Saudi authorities staged the "worst cover-up ever" in the killing of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi this month, as the United States vowed to revoke visas of some of those believed to be responsible.

Trump spoke hours after Turkey's president, Tayyip Erdogan, dismissed Saudi efforts to blame Khashoggi's death on rogue operatives. Erdogan urged Riyadh to search "from top to bottom" to uncover those behind Khashoggi's death in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, an incident that has prompted global outrage and strained relations between Riyadh and Washington.

Asked by a reporter in the White House Oval Office how the Khashoggi killing could have happened, Trump said: "They had a very bad original concept. It was carried out poorly, and the cover-up was one of the worst in the history of cover-ups."

Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist.

Trump's comments in recent days have ranged from threatening Saudi Arabia with "very severe" consequences and mentioning possible economic sanctions, to more conciliatory remarks highlighting the country's role as a U.S. ally against Iran and Islamist militants, as well as a major purchaser of U.S. arms.

On Tuesday, Trump said the Khashoggi matter was handled badly by Saudi officials. "Bad deal, should have never been thought of. Somebody really messed up. And they had the worst cover-up ever," Trump said.

Trump did not give his views on who was ultimately responsible. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States has identified some of the Saudi government and security officials it believes were involved in Khashoggi's murder and would take appropriate actions including revoking U.S. visas.

As the crisis unfolded over the past three weeks, Saudi Arabia changed its tune on Khashoggi. Riyadh initially denied knowledge of Khashoggi's fate before saying on Saturday he was killed in a fight in the consulate, an account met with skepticism from several Western governments, straining their relations with the world's biggest oil exporter.

Saudi state media said on Saturday King Salman fired five officials over the killing carried out by a 15-man hit team, including Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide who ran social media for Prince Mohammed. According to two intelligence sources, Qahtani ran Khashoggi's killing by giving orders over Skype.

King Salman, 82, has handed the day-to-day runn

 

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