{"id":39518,"date":"2018-10-22T06:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39518"},"modified":"2018-10-22T06:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:11:25","slug":"will-trump-split-the-world-by-endorsing-a-bold-faced-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39518","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump Split the World by Endorsing a Bold-Faced Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/22\/will-trump-split-the-world-by-endorsing-a-bold-faced-lie\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Will Trump Split the World by Endorsing a Bold-Faced Lie?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>The Saudi \u201cinvestigation\u201d into the Khashoggi murder, conducted on the demand of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is not yet complete. But preliminary conclusions have been announced in the Saudi media. Turns out (surprise, surprise!) Khashoggi died while in a choke-hold following a fist-fight in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in a botched effort to detain him.<\/p>\n<p>Asked Saturday in Arizona if he found the Saudi account credible, Donald Trump said that he did, praising the investigation as \u201ca very important first step and it happened sooner that people thought it would happen\u201d\u2014as though its timing had not been determined by Pompeo\u2019s pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a good first step, it\u2019s a big step,\u201d the president repeated (as the world sighed). \u201cSaudi Arabia has been a great ally,\u201d he added, like that was relevant. Then in an interview with the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0he indicated that he felt Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman may have learned of the murder only after the fact. He went out of his way to praise the prince\u2014his son-in-law Jared\u2019s good buddy. He actually said he\u2019d \u201clove it\u201d if the prince was not responsible.<\/p>\n<p>This raises the real prospect of the administration\u2014which according to the\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>\u00a0demands a \u201cmutually agreeable explanation\u201d from Riyadh\u2014signing on to a narrative radically different from that provided by Turkish police. According to the latter,\u00a0 the Saudi court ordered the gruesome murder in the consulate on Oct. 2.\u00a0 It dispatched 15 assassins including members of MbS\u2019s personal security detail and the kingdom\u2019s top forensic doctor equipped with a bone-saw to execute the deed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Trump Split the World by Endorsing a Bold-Faced Lie? The Saudi \u201cinvestigation\u201d into the Khashoggi murder, conducted on the demand of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is not yet complete. But preliminary conclusions have been announced in the Saudi media. Turns out (surprise, surprise!) Khashoggi died while in a choke-hold following a fist-fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,7844,19526,22167,15165,15128,22261,701,818,827,5228],"class_list":["post-39518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-gary-leupp","tag-jamal-khashoggi","tag-lie","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-mohammad-bin-salman","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39519,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions\/39519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}