Here are the gruesome details. Very hard to read, but important that it’s reported.
Jamal Khashoggi's final words were "I can't breathe," CNN said Sunday, citing a source who has read the transcript of an audio tape of the final moments before the journalist's murder.
The source told the US network the transcript made clear the killing was premeditated, and suggests several phone calls were made to give briefings on the progress.
After reading through more horrifying details of Khashoggi’s death, remember that Donald Trump’s excuse not to act against the Saudis would protect the oil markets and that doing nothing was called an ‘America first’ policy.
The transcript of the gruesome recording includes descriptions of Khashoggi struggling against his murderers, CNN said, and references sounds of the dissident journalist's body "being dismembered by a saw."
Make no mistake—Trump is strongly defending the Saudis brutal and senseless murder of Jamal Khashoggi, because of his family’s longtime business interests with the Saudis.
Since Trump won the presidency, Saudis have been patrons of three of his 11 Trump-branded hotels.
In early 2017, a lobbying firm working for the Saudi Embassy reported spending $270,000 on food and lodging at Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington. The rooms were used to house people visiting Washington to lobby against a law that the Saudi government opposed — a law that allows victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to sue the Saudi government.
The Trump administration covering for the Saudi regime is joyfully enabling brutal authoritarian regimes around the world. The disgusting display below proves it.
This is where our country is right now. Absolutely no moral compass in the White House to do the right thing and punish those who brutally murdered an innocent man. We have a corrupted wannabe authoritarian ”president”—who comfortably sides with authoritarian regimes. Regimes that know they have a friend in Trump.