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Will the OP please cite his educational background, his depth of experoence, his time spent in the middle east, and the base of his knowledge on middle eastern dictators making him a credible person capable of making the statements he has made .... Or should we just assume the OP is another Trump-hating butt-hurt snowflake throwing a tantrum?
Khashoggi was living in the United States on an “O” visa, according to his employer the Washington Post. Also known as the “genius” visa, the O offers individuals of “extraordinary ability and achievement” temporary residence for up to three years. Three of Khashoggi’s children are US citizens, and he is believed to have been applying for a legal permanent residence in the US, also known as a green card.Khashoggi was never a resident. More like a tourist. No matter how you cut it, his murder has nothing to do with us. Nothing at all.Congress is preparing to bring down the hammer on the president’s son-in-law, who has refused to turn his back on the kingdom, despite the gruesome killing of a U.S. resident.Jared Kushner is now complicit in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by his knowledge of CIA intelligence of the murder and by his giving advice to Mohammed Bin Salman how to minimize reputation damage from the murder. That is complicity.
The kindest assessment of Jared Kushner is that he is an incompetent buffoon drunk with power and easy meat for manipulation by foreign agents.
A more realistic assessment is that Jared Kushner is a grifter and a traitor selling out US interests for money or the promise of money in the future. Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump will rue Jared's involvement in the Trump administration as his offenses are exposed and punished.
Kushner is being manipulated by at least four foreign governments.
Apart from Jared Kushner's lying to the FBI he faces more jeopardy from the investigation of the $30 million payment he received ahead of his Isreal embassy move decision.
Jared will spend at least several years as a convicted felon like his father and his family will be further tainted by his misery.
Opinion | Jared Kushner did what?
... Tim Mulvey, communications director for the Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tells me, “The Foreign Affairs Committee will conduct a top-to-bottom review of American policy toward Saudi Arabia, including what drove the administration’s response to the Khashoggi murder.” He adds, "No specific hearings have been scheduled yet, but nothing is off the table.”
In the course of the investigation, the committee may want to call public hearings and subpoena all relevant documents regarding Trump’s financial interests and benefits relating to the House of Saud, Kushner’s business interests relating to Saudi Arabia and why, despite public evidence that he was being manipulated by foreign governments, he continued to play such a critical role in foreign policy. (“Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports on the matter,” The Post reported in February. “Among those nations discussing ways to influence Kushner to their advantage were the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico, the current and former officials said.”)
It’s not hard to figure out how the United States became effectively the junior partner in the U.S.-Saudi relationship. “Donald Trump runs his White House like a Middle East dictator,” says Brian Katulis of the Center for American Progress. “His move to empower his son-in-law on many fronts including Middle East policy is just one example of it — and this nepotism helps explain the bad results America has gotten under Trump.” He adds, “Kushner and his team squandered the leverage the United States has with countries like Saudi Arabia, which depend heavily on the U.S. security umbrella to survive. Instead of pressing a newly assertive Saudi Arabia to serve as a source of stability and genuine reform, the Trump administration gave MBS a blank check — unconditional support no matter what, including murdering a journalist.”
One would be tempted to say that, in any other administration, Kushner would be fired for rotten judgment and perpetuating, at a minimum, the appearance of a conflict of interest. But, of course, it’s hard to imagine a 37-year-old old real estate scion with no government experience and no foreign policy experience working in such a high-level post in any other administration. Like I said, don’t hire relatives — especially incompetent and foolish ones. ...
Remember when Putin hi-5'd MBS?
It means both of them can assassinate US citizens with impunity.
