The u. S. Secretary of state yukking it up with the ruling crown prince of saudi arabia while that crown prince stands fairly credibly accused of orchestrating the murder of a u. S. Based journalist, a virginia resident, an employee of one of americas Great National newspapers. There is mike pompeo, ha ha ha, great to see you, my old friend. Then shortly after we got those images out of saudi arabia, the president himself gave an interview to the Associated Press from the oval office in which he said this apparent murder case, in his words, is just another case of youre guilty until proven innocent. To understand some of what the president is talking about there, i think it may be worth remembering that since Jamal Khashoggi went missing, President Trump has also publicly asserted that the u. S. Government has an active investigation into this matter, that in fact we have investigators on the ground where khashoggi disappeared, looking into this. The president has said that publicly. T
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