CNN’s Cuomo: Saudis Buying Trump Condos May Have Motivated Murder

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 12, 2018
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CNN is no longer a home for objective news and information. It’s now a home for speculation and conspiracy theories. That fact was quite apparent during Thursday’s edition of Cuomo Prime Time when host Chris Cuomo rolled out his conspiracy tracking whiteboard and suggested that President Trump’s ties to Saudi Arabia caused Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to feel motivated to kill Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.

Khashoggi had been missing for a week after he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. And despite President Trump telling the press that “[s]omething like that should not be allowed to happen. Something like that should not happen. And we intend to get to the bottom of it,” Cuomo was irritated by the President.

All right, he's saying the right things, but the energy there, the tone, it's a little circumspect. Curious,” Cuomo questioned alluding to a darker meaning. “Trump, who we all know usually goes further, faster than anyone, in terms of tough talk, is now saying, go slow.

The conspiracy theories started to flow when Cuomo seemed to suggest the U.S. had information on a threat against Khashoggi and said nothing. “If the U.S. intelligence had the communications they say they had, which was setting out a plot afoot (…) The United States also had a duty to warn, and there could be pushback,” he speculated.

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