Saudi Arabia's apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea - or Israel and the United States. State-sponsored assassination is a ruthless gamble. But other countries have gotten away with it.
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US presidents have been appeasing brutal dictatorships for years. Trump merely does it with appalling and brazen clarity
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In this video essay, Mehdi Hasan examines Trump’s long history of doing deals with Saudi royals. Mehdi asks: “Does Saudi Arabia own Donald Trump?”
It also seems almost impossible that the United States intelligence agencies don’t have most, or all, of the information available to the Turkish authorities.
It appears the president "is assisting a foreign government in a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the political murder of a resident of the United States, and he's doing so because to do otherwise would be detrimental to his business interests."
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“For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia,” Trump tweeted. A Fox News account proves him wrong.
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