According to recent reports, the Trump administration
has been breaking the law repeatedly for well
over the past month over the death of reporter
Jamal Khashoggi.
Here's what happened, on February 20th a month
after they were supposed to deliver it to
Congress, the Trump administration finally
handed over classified information regarding
Khashoggi's murder and the involvement of
Saudi crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
They were a month late on this.
The Democrats had issued requests.
They had sent subpoenas for information, and
the Trump administration repeatedly ignored
it.
They were given deadlines, legal deadlines
that they had to meet, that they failed to
meet continuously breaking the law as we have
seen from this administration since day one.
Although again, they finally did hand this
over, although it's unclear if it contained
all of the information regarding the Saudi
Royal family's involvement in the murder,
but there's another piece of this.
There is another law that the administration
is breaking and that is one that says that
if the state department finds out that any
country that the United States has a relationship
with, if they are routinely violating human
rights, we have a responsibility, nay a legal
obligation to sanction them.
And they have identified this not only with
the death of Khashoggi, but also with the
treatment of women and the treatment of other
minority groups inside of Saudi Arabia.
They are guilty of massive human rights violations
in that country.
Yet the Trump administration refuses to do
anything about it.
They have covered up the murder and the involvement
of the Saudi crown Prince since day one.
They don't want anybody to know what their
friends over in Saudi Arabia did to this man.
They don't want to know the extent of the
involvement.
They don't want us to know about the planning.
They just want us to think that, oops, it
was an unfortunate accident and let's all
move on and not piss off Saudi Arabia.
There is no conceivable reason why Saudi Arabia
should be considered an ally of the United
States.
And in fact, the only reasons that they are
our allies is because they have lots of oil
and they buy lots of our weapons.
And in the case of Donald Trump, they also
buy lots of his condos.
So he is personally profiting off of the rule
breaking that he is engaging in to cover up
for the Royal family in Saudi Arabia.
Folks, this is a scandal.
This is something that the media should be
talking about.
This is something that people should be paying
attention to and yet nobody is.
This man was murdered and his murder based
on the evidence we have was directed by the
Saudi Royal family itself and the Trump administration
at every turn has covered this up, muddied
the waters, and tried to downplay the involvement
of bin Salman in this entire saga.
And it's because Trump is making money from
it.
These are his friends, these are his clients
and he will do whatever it takes, including
breaking the law, which is what he's doing,
to make sure that his clients don't get in
trouble and continue to buy his condos.
