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For decades, part of the United States relationship with Saudi Arabia has included our inaction when it came to the atrocities and human rights violations on the part of the Kingdom due to its strategic placement in the region. It’s not something to be touted but it is what it is. Yet despite that and the apparent murder of a Washington Post columnist, the liberal media now calling for a different standard for President Trump.
To kick off NBC Nightly News on Monday, the network huffed about how Trump was walking the fine line with America’s partner. After noting reports suggesting the Saudis were preparing to admit to killing Jamal Khashoggi, anchor Lester Holt chided the President. “Word of the acknowledgment comes just hours after Trump seemed to accept Saudi denials of any involvement while speculating Khashoggi may have died at the hand of rogue killers,” he reported.
It was a suggestion parroted by chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell as she began her rebuke of the President: “President Trump, after calling the Saudi king today, seeming to buy his explanation that if Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey, the hit men were ‘rogue killers’, not working for the regime.”
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