We should ALL be #NeverTrump over the next 2 weeks…Whether we’re GOP, Dem, independent, conservative, liberal, moderate, all the above or none of the above, we must vote to put a check on this president! We’re facing a unique threat to our democracy & need to vote Dem up & down the ticket! I’m being totally honest when I say I’m a center-right conservative & lifelong GOP supporter. But I clearly saw how the intransigent extremists invaded the party a few years ago with the tea-party movement, from which it’s only grown progressively worse as that radicalized mindset has more completely taken over the GOP & echo spearheaded by Fox. And in that process, the party is now firmly under the evil spell of an authoritarian-minded demagogue. I’ve witnessed this unmistakable shift where the GOP has been consumed by the Trump cult & tarnished beyond measure. So until the party can get fixed (or destroyed to start over), we cannot state strongly enough the importance of being #NeverTrump for the midterm elections!
Fascism
As I’ve often said about fascism, don’t think it could never happen here! Particularly if the GOP retains the majority in Congress, the risk is ratcheted up dramatically. That’s reason enough to be firmly #NeverTrump when voting. Any vote otherwise for the GOP is really a vote in support of a demagogue. Please read this article famed-historian-believes-trump-is-leading-america-to-fascism & here is the conclusion to what-does-trumps-ascendance-mean-about-america:
And yet, it is impossible to listen closely to Trump without hearing echoes of fascist language and arguments. He describes a form of national unity based on deference to a single leader. He claims to lead a movement that speaks exclusively for American values. He defines this movement primarily through exclusion, by directing bigotry and contempt toward outsiders. He paints the picture of an idealized past, involving pride, ethnic solidarity and national greatness. Fascism may not describe what Trump has done, as opposed to what he says. But what he says matters and can create its own dangerous dynamic. It is possible for a leader to be incompetent and still profoundly corrupt the people who follow him, undermining the virtues — tolerance, civility and compromise — that make democratic self-government work. It is possible for a foolish leader to leave the imprint of fascism on a portion of his followers. And the language used by Trump — particularly a certain racially tinged nostalgia and a tribal resentment for the other — strikes me as at a higher level of prominence and acceptance than at any time I can remember. So maybe, rather than fearing a fascist dictator, we should fear the legitimacy of fascist modes of thought in the Republican Party. This is a more complex danger than most talk of fascism generally suggests. But it is a danger nonetheless.
And one event in particular could quickly heighten that danger. Consider what American politics would look like if Republicans — against all odds and expectations — were to keep the Senate and House. There might be many explanations for such a result — exceptional economic conditions, bad Democratic strategy, the rallying effect of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh among Republicans — but we know how the president would interpret it. He would regard such a victory as the complete vindication — the stamp of national approval — on his entire approach to politics. All the last remaining opposition in the GOP would melt, and many of his supporters would be calling for retribution against enemies and traitors. The whole leadership of the FBI and Justice Department — anyone who ever displeased him — would be at immediate risk of replacement. Trump would take his victory as permission for even more brutal treatment of migrants. More generally, a leader with no commitment to the separation of powers, with no respect for the traditional self-restraints of the presidency, with savage disdain for the free press, with an admiration for authoritarians, with a history of menacing individuals and companies by name, and with a talent for division and dehumanization would feel unbound. The boor, the bluffer, the bully would be a political colossus. Then the language of fascism might become less theoretical. Then alarmism would be realism.
Assault on the Truth
That includes not just lying constantly, but also being accepting of others lying while dismissing facts. That’s something Trump is a master of. Join me by being #NeverTrump when we vote, since it is really that important! America must reconnect with its moral compass! See these excerpts patched together from politics/donald-trump-foreign-leaders:
Over the course of 21 months, President Trump has loudly and repeatedly refused to accept a number of seemingly agreed-upon facts, while insisting on the veracity of a variety of demonstrably false claims that happen to suit his political needs. In the process, he has untethered the White House from the burden of objective proof, creating a rich trove for professional fact-checkers, and raising questions about the basis for many of his decisions. “If there’s no truth, how do we discuss and make decisions that are rooted in fact?” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican operative based in California. “It’s been abandoned. And it’s something that the Republican base certainly isn’t going to revolt on him on. But it is a huge fundamental problem of how to govern when there are no facts.” Michael V. Hayden, a former C.I.A. director who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, said that Mr. Trump could be coaxed into believing objective reality, but that it “is not the instinctive departure point for what Donald Trump does.”
“It’s something else — it’s feeling, emotion, preference, loyalty, convenience of the moment,” Mr. Hayden said. He quoted a former speechwriter for Mr. Bush, Michael Gerson, about Mr. Trump: “He lives in the eternal now — no history, no consequences.” Mr. Trump’s refusal to accept some established facts is hardly new. From his belief in the guilt of five young men of color in connection with a savage attack on a white woman in Central Park in the 1980s, to his conviction that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya, he has carried on what amount to personal crusades in the face of established facts for much of his career. The most noticeable new variation of that tendency that Mr. Trump has adopted as president is his penchant for giving the benefit of the doubt to authoritarian leaders with whom he has tried to develop personal or political relationships. That was most recently on display this week, when he said that King Salman of Saudi Arabia had assured him that the royal family had no role in the disappearance of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The king, he noted, had given a “very strong” denial. “Here we go again with, you know, you’re guilty until proven innocent,” Mr. Trump told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “I don’t like that. We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh, and he was innocent all the way as far as I’m concerned.”
Still, the initial remarks echoed comments he made last summer about the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, who he said had been “extremely strong and powerful in his denial” that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election. And they were similar to what the president has said about his faith in the widely doubted commitment to denuclearization by the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un. “He wrote me beautiful letters,” he said at a rally in Wheeling, W. Va., “and they’re great letters. We fell in love.” His long career in the New York real estate world convinced Mr. Trump that all people are prone to shading their views according to their own self-interest. Objectivity is not something he expects of people, and he long ago came to believe that “facts” are really arbitrary. “There are no governing rules — one doesn’t have to be governed by rules or facts,” said David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Mr. Obama, describing Mr. Trump’s worldview. “Whatever it takes to get what you want or to get to where you want, no matter what you have to justify or what you have to ignore, is O.K.”
Mr. Trump’s approach has profound consequences for the credibility of the presidency and the boundaries of acceptable political discourse. It also has serious ramifications for his advisers, as well as people who hear the president’s words outside the United States. And, according to Mr. Hayden, it particularly affects the intelligence officials whose job it is to present Mr. Trump with the information he needs to make critical national security decisions. “Intelligence is all about context, which is history and consequence,” said Mr. Hayden, and intelligence officials are “trying to pull him into an agreed view of objective reality.” The result is that the Russian president or the North Korean leader can seem to have a greater impact with Mr. Trump than his own State Department or C.I.A. His willingness to repeat claims like the notion that Mr. Khashoggi was the victim of “rogue killers” is a function of that, Mr. Stutzman said. “This rhetoric really matters,” he said, “in that it belies how little he fundamentally understands the institutions of American democracy.”
Normalizing the Abnormal
See these perceptive comments below from donald-trump-elizabeth-warren, with the thoughts that for so long we’ve come to see Trump’s abhorrent personal traits lacking any moral standards, so now we’ve come to expect deplorable words & deeds from our president. He can now say or do most anything & get away with it, since we’re conditioned to not be shocked by it. Vote with me as a proud #NeverTrump American, since voting GOP would be a debasement of any kind of moral principles. Trump is establishing a whole new norm for America that values & integrity no longer matter:
That’s Trump’s edge over everybody. That’s his gift. He can do no wrong because he’s all wrong. He never really shocks because he’s a perpetual shock. When someone frolics at the nadir for as long as he has, there’s nowhere to go but sideways. He reminds me of a long-held fantasy of mine: that someday, to head the media off at the pass, a candidate would begin his or her campaign by holding a news conference and telling reporters: “Let me save you a lot of time and me a lot of grief. I hereby introduce all the skeletons in my closet: this drug, that dalliance, some naked greed here, several suspicious tax maneuvers there and, oh, I once adopted a dog from the pound and returned it the next day. Decide if I’m disqualified. It was clear that he (Trump) had amassed his fortune through convenient bankruptcies, unsavory alliances and stiffed creditors. His racial demagogy had been well established in his insistence that Barack Obama was an illegitimate president born outside the United States. And his misogyny? Megyn Kelly was able to ask that famous question at the first 2016 Republican primary debate — the one with a litany of his gross physical put-downs of women — because they had all been chronicled, recorded, transcribed. There was no running from his boorishness. Boorishness was his brand. So when alienated, cynical and rebellious voters chose Trump as the loudest expression of their grievances, they knew exactly what they were getting. When evangelicals joined them, they understood what kind of church they were in. And when Republican holdouts submitted, they didn’t convince themselves that they had judged him too harshly on testimony too scant. They just decided that a pardon was in their self-interests, and they bit their tongues until they lost the ability to speak. The “Access Hollywood” tape didn’t ruin Trump because it didn’t reveal anything about him that wasn’t suspected or assumed. The exposure of his fraudulent philanthropy? Ditto. His rampant tax evasion? Scales fell from exactly nobody’s eyes. Trump enjoys a kind and degree of immunity that few if any politicians in my lifetime have been given. His own exhaustively established indecency inoculates him. As a result, all manner of ugliness slips by — unnoticed, barely noticed or noticed and accepted as Trump being Trump.
Part of what protects Trump is a dynamic that I and many other writers have described before. The sheer volume of his offenses, not to mention the velocity with which one follows another, renders each of them less potent, not more. From bone spurs to bone saws, it’s one numbing blur. But there’s more to it than that. There’s the realization — and too often the acceptance — that he’ll never do much better and can’t get any worse. He’s already made light of John McCain’s torture by the North Vietnamese, defended the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Va., and chosen air kisses from Vladimir Putin over hard truths from American intelligence officials. There’s simply no encore to that. We in the media certainly note all the new stuff: the “horseface” slur; the “rogue killers” escape hatch for Saudi butchers; the ill-timed, repugnant congratulations to a Montana lawmaker for body-slamming a journalist. But we’ve served this stew so many times before that a big audience beyond the die-hards has lost its appetite. We need to document all or most of the tweets and bleats — he’s the president of the most powerful nation on earth, after all — but there’s so much that we invariably come across as obsessed. Trump puts us in a trap. The way out isn’t clear, but a few necessary adjustments are. We in the media should do less “horseface” and more ballooning deficits, dysfunctional federal agencies, disgraceful cabinet members and reckless judicial appointments. Too often the substantial sinks beneath the saucier stuff, yet another factor that favors the president and lets him off the hook. We should also re-examine how we discuss whether Warren or some other challenger has the particular chops to handle Trump’s falsehoods and slurs. It’s as if we accept his strategy as legitimate, even ingenious, and locate weakness and fault in the person who can’t counter it. He’s the sad, bad actor. We can’t let his relentless spectacle obscure that.
If you can access the NY Times, these are interesting articles you could do a search for:
nytimes/trump-far-right-populists-globalization
nytimes/trump-center-right-america
nytimes/trump-midterm-mob
Far-Right Angry Mobs & a Leader who’s a Pathological Liar
More attacks are seen here from what must have been a right-wing angry mob: someone-put-a-bomb-in-george-soross-mailbox, plus these echo-fools are stirring up their mobs: Right-Wing-Media-Inciting-Violence-Video-from-Media-Matters. We must defend journalists with the truth: trump-journalism-truth. For Trump, pathological lying isn’t just a character flaw, it’s a strategy he uses for personal gain. He has no credibility any more with clear-thinking Americans. As president, the lying really matters, since his pundits & supporters keep echoing his lies as our nation is seeing the normalization of chronic dishonesty for achieving selfish gains. It’s given rise to an angry politics of distortions, gaslighting, division & constantly attacking dissent as seen inside whole-world-will-soon-start-talking-like-trump, while these excerpts below are the ending to So-What-If-Trump-Lies:
I understand that kind of lying, and I even understand the usual lying in politics for politics’ sake. I don’t agree with it, but then I’m not running for office. But this president has taken lying to new heights, even for a politician. And that bothers me, and I do think that should bother all of us in this America. Politicians can misstate, forget, spin, and even change their minds on policy, and I can live with that. I can explain it to my grandchildren. But what is going on now has no precedent and disturbs me at a different level. Trump speaks the doublespeak of Orwell’s novel 1984 where the Ministry of Truth is concerned with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture, and the Ministry of Peace with war. On Aug. 19, Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani declared: “Truth isn’t truth.” Kellyanne Conway coined the term “alternative facts.” There is no truth but his truth; all else is Fake News.
And it’s no accident. In an interview in July of 2016, Trump told television reporter Lesley Stahl that he attacks the press to “demean” and “discredit” reporters so that the public won’t believe “negative stories” about him. “At one point, he started to attack the press,” Stahl told the audience at a journalism awards event at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Monday evening. “There were no cameras in there.” “I said, ‘You know, this is getting tired. Why are you doing it over and over? It’s boring and it’s time to end that. You know, you’ve won … why do you keep hammering at this?'” Stahl went on. “And Trump said: ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.'” And it works for him.
The press has always been a brake on government excess and grandstanding, and when doing its job well it sheds light on what is true even when the government wants it shaded with misinformation.But Trump understands his audience as the reality TV host he is; he repeats his lies often and loudly, and has the bully-pulpit to do it. He seems averse to the truth, and Hannah Arendt’s 1967 essay sheds some light on why; “Seen from the viewpoint of politics, truth has a despotic character. It is therefore hated by tyrants, who rightly fear the competition of a coercive force they cannot monopolize, and it enjoys a rather precarious status in the eyes of governments that rest on consent and abhor coercion….Unwelcome opinion can be argued with, rejected, or compromised upon, but unwelcome facts possess an infuriating stubbornness that nothing can move except plain lies.” And Trump is good with lies.
All good news agencies employ fact checkers to verify reporter’s stories, both to perform their unwritten dictate as the fourth branch of government and also to shield themselves from liability. The Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler is used to lying in politics, and it’s part of his job to verify what goes into the Post. But the flood of lies coming from Trump spurred him to keep track, and by the 601stday of this presidency, Kessler had counted 5,000 lies. And data indicates that the rate of lying on a daily basis has been increasing as Trump settles into his job and eliminates those in his administration that challenge him. “In his first year as President, Trump made 2,140 false claims, according to the Post. In just the last six months, he has nearly doubled that total to 4,229,” wrote Susan Glasser in an Aug. 3 New Yorkerarticle, and “On July 5th, the Post found what appears to be Trump’s most untruthful day yet: seventy-six per cent of the ninety-eight factual assertions he made in a campaign-style rally in Great Falls, Montana, were “false, misleading or unsupported by evidence.” As Arendt wrote, “Unwelcome facts possess an infuriating stubbornness that nothing can move except plain lies” and facts are a problem for Trump because they don’t match the landscape of his own truth. So he makes up his own truth.
Now that’s not a problem in general, we all do it. But the more one person accepts responsibility, especially responsibility for other people, truth matters. It does to me. It mattered with my kids, and still does. It matters with my grandkids. I don’t remember ever catching my dad in a lie, nor my mother. We went through the Santa Claus bit, and the Easter Bunny, and I early on understood that for what it was. I sorted out the difference between truth and belief, which was more difficult, but still understandable. My parents inculcated in me a respect for telling the truth, and I think it’s reflected in my five siblings as well, and in our children and grandchildren. So much of what Trump lies about is childish; inconsequential, yet he seems incapable of telling the truth. What does it really matter how many people were at his inauguration? Those are concerns of someone who is very unsure of himself, who knows that his own mental image of who he is, and the reality of who he is, are severely at odds. Those are the concerns of someone who would be a good “reality” show host, because that’s not about reality at all, so the host can bend the “truth” anyway he wants.
Hannah Arendt again, “It has frequently been noticed that the surest long-term result of brainwashing is a peculiar kind of cynicism – an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established. In other words, the result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lies will now be accepted as truth, and the truth be defamed as lies, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world – and the category of truth vs. falsehood is among the mental means to this end – is being destroyed. And for this trouble there is no remedy.” In an ABC interview Trump said it’s OK for him to lie because “people agree with me.” That reminds me in a way of the Santa Claus tale most parents tell their kids; but in the case of the President of the United States, that’s not OK with me. We’re not his children, he’s not my parent, and his motives are far from clear. It’s the voice of an elitist who deigns to parcel out truth only as it pleases him and only in ways that empower his own grasp on power, fame and fortune.
But truth in the real world is stubborn, and Arendt still harbors hope, “Truth, though powerless and always defeated in a head-on clash with the powers that be, possesses a strength of its own: whatever those in power may contrive, they are unable to discover or invent a viable substitute for it. Persuasion and violence can destroy truth, but they cannot replace it.” So what ever your opinion of the press, and despite the flood of false and incendiary information on the web, “….facts possess an infuriating stubbornness.” On the cusp of this upcoming election it is our job to find them.
Time for an idiot update
Inside these links, read about a couple of our moronic congressional representatives. I’d rather have Barney Fife & Homer Simpson in Congress:
Fox Lies
Displaying irrepressible deception & evil, Fox obliterates any pretense of integrity, with over-the-top lies including smearing the murdered journalist. Why would anyone want to expose their minds to this sort of toxic brain-rot?:
Just like the hero-worship coverage the dictators in Russia & North Korea enjoy from their state-sponsored TV, Fox fills the bill for Trump:
The Trump-Fox News consortium ratchets up the fear-mongering over the immigrant caravan. It’s astounding a so-called news network could actually put people on the air who are so demonstrably ignorant:
http://www.newshounds.us/pete_hegseth_immigration_lie_too_much_fox_news_102218
https://www.yahoo.com/news/geraldo-rivera-taunts-sean-hannity-092149931.html
Fake News could adopt another tool
The echo is bad enough wallowing in their own lies. But it could get far worse, making fake videos that look real. If the echo audience keeps believing all the verbal lies, how much more will they be duped through videos? See this post from the-real-scary-news-about-deepfakes:
If you thought the fight over Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation couldn’t have been more horrible, buckle your seat belts. Imagine how the public divisions would have deepened had there been fake-but-plausible video of an undergraduate Kavanaugh partying hard at Yale, or fake-but-plausible audio of Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) huddling on strategy calls with lawyers for Kavanaugh’s accusers. Deepfakes — seemingly authentic video or audio recordings that can spread like wildfire online — are likely to send American politics into a tailspin, and Washington isn’t paying nearly enough attention to the very real danger that’s right around the corner.
I spoke recently with one of the most senior U.S. intelligence officials, who told me that many leaders in his community think we’re on the verge of a deepfakes “perfect storm.” The storm has three critical ingredients: First, this new technology is staggering in its disruptive potential yet relatively simple and cheap to produce. Second, our enemies are eager to undermine us. With the collapse of the Russian economy, Putin is trying to maintain unity at home by finding a common enemy abroad. He has little to lose and lots to gain — it’s far easier to weaken U.S. domestic support for NATO than to actually fight NATO head-on. Russia hasn’t mastered these information operations yet, but China is running scout-team offense behind every play. China will eventually be incredibly good at this, and we are not ready. The United States isn’t ready largely because of this perfect storm’s third ingredient: We are so domestically divided right now, about who we are and what we hold in common, that malevolent foreign actors can pick at dozens of scabs as they seek to weaken us. In many of the current domestic flash points — over guns and geography, race and gender, religion and institutions — the nation’s cultural, political and even economic leaders often seem more interested in fomenting discord than in rallying us around a shared battle plan.
How to prevent the potentially catastrophic use of deepfakes? One part of the solution obviously is to ramp up our offensive and defensive cyber efforts. The U.S. military and intelligence communities are not yet where they need to be to fight the wicked hybrid and technologically enabled “gray space” war. The government itself must be modernized for the digital age in a host of ways. But what can we the people do about the deepfake threat? We can work hard to roll back the distrust of our opponents that makes us more susceptible to the effects of disinformation. Rising political tribalism, shamelessly exaggerating our opponents’ claims or behavior, is leaving us vulnerable: No one loves America’s internal fighting — and our increasingly siloed news consumption — more than Vladimir Putin. One of the most important ways to combat the gathering storm is to be aware that it’s coming — to become more mindful of the ways that confirmation bias and narrower networks distort our view of reality. Another step: Vow to give your perceived political antagonists the benefit of the doubt. Some of the United States’ enemies now assume, perhaps rightly, that we hate each other so much that we’d sooner collaborate with them than do the difficult work of listening to each other. It doesn’t need to be this way — but national recovery won’t come from Washington. It has to start with you.
Evangelicals
As for evangelicals who still slobber over the prez by being his most loyal demographic group, are two conservative justices really worth allowing a pathological liar & moral degenerate to lead our nation, even to where from this point forward America might be permanently degraded? Some of my evangelical brethren express alarm when I speculate many in our faith have been infiltrated by a demonic spirit of deception (we’ve seen that with certain faith leaders) & many Trumpeters who attend our churches have tragically become part of the Trump cult. With some, I sense more fawning over a demonstrably sinful earthly king than a holy heavenly king! With their overwhelming support, it signals a full embrace of dishonesty, immorality & shameless selfishness, easily tarnishing their own personal moral standards while diminishing the mission of the church.
I fervently believe an hour of Fox News in the evening does more damage to the minds & spirits of people than an hour of church on Sunday morning does good. The horror of the situation is many of these churchgoers spend hours & hours every week watching Fox prime-time programming. Add in far-right talk radio & conspiratorial social media sites, that level of thought-derangement brainwashing becomes catastrophic when breeding that cult-mindset. No amount of church attendance could ever undo that kind of warped mind-control. And support for whatever form has become of the GOP is no longer compatible with personal moral principles. Many evangelicals have a one-track mind that their vote is all about & only about abortion, but aligning with evil is not the way to achieve pro-life aims & can only backfire for the long term. It’s the hypocrisy & moral duplicity the world sees coming from the faith that is the real casualty for the church. These links are thoughts on that topic, in the hopes evangelicals can become discerning enough to distinguish true faith values from the words of charlatans who’ve invaded our church:
Saudi Murder
The mystery deepens on the murdered journalist. All signs point to the Saudi crowned prince ordering the hit. As with Putin & Jong Un, Trump defends or softens the blame on the brutal Saudi dictator, either because the prez has been compromised &/or wants to be a dictator himself. There’s unconfirmed reports the body parts have been found in a garden at the home of the Saudi consul general. We have lots of articles about this from the newsfeeds, which you’d need to search for yourself by a copy & paste since our blog can’t contain so many outbound links. Or just peruse the interesting titles below. These first couple links show Trump’s U.S. jobs number estimates for the Saudi arms deal are all over the place:
axios/donald-trump-jobs-math-saudi-arabia-arms-deal
esquire/president-trump-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-jobs
thedailybeast/the-real-reasons-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-wanted-khashoggi-dead
thedailybeast/yes-the-saudis-are-great-partnersof-trump-not-america
salon/its-all-about-oil-the-lessons-were-missing-from-jamal-khashoggis-murder
thehill/khashoggis-death-diminishes-saudi-arabia-and-its-crown-prince
thehill/utter-bulls-khashoggis-editor-sounds-off-on-saudi-explanation-for-journalists
thehill/separating-reality-from-illusion-in-khashoggis-death
thehill/saudi-arabias-myopia-is-the-cause-of-the-khashoggi-blunder
thinkprogress/trump-saudi-explanation-khashoggi-death
businessinsider/mckinsey-report-saudi-arabia-dissidents-arrest
vox/saudi-arabia-mckinsey-twitter-khashoggi
motherjones/mbs-approved-the-preposterous-new-kahshoggi-story
time/tawakkol-karman-nobel-prize-saudi-arabia-khashoggi
nytimes/trump-saudi-khashoggi-midterms
nytimes/trump-saudi-arabia-journalist-khashoggi
washingtonpost/turkeys-president-to-deliver-speech-expected-to-describe-how-khashoggi-was-killed
washingtonpost/khashoggi-death-throws-new-light-on-saudi-princes-crackdown-on-dissent
washingtonpost/the-saudis-and-trump-insult-our-intelligence-congress-shouldnt
washingtonpost/the-saudi-explanation-for-jamal-khashoggis-death-is-a-fable-still-trump-plays-along
washingtonpost/in-post-interview-trump-calls-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-a-strong-person-who-truly-loves-his-country
washingtonpost/in-death-saudi-writers-mild-calls-for-reform-grew-into-a-defiant-shout
washingtonpost/irony-while-trump-marvels-saudis-strength-his-response-signals-his-own-weakness
washingtonpost/saudi-consulate-employees-talking-to-turkish-prosecutors-in-khashoggi-inquiry
washingtonpost/finally-bipartisan-repudiation-of-america-first
washingtonpost/the-trump-presidency-is-a-rogue-operation
msn/khashoggis-possessions-found-during-search-of-consulate-vehicle-cnn-turk
yahoo/sky-sources-jamal-khashoggis-body-parts-found
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