Thread by @SethAbramson

Readers of this feed—and the many other feeds and cable networks starting to hint at the five-nation grand bargain that's been discussed here—are reading *all* news involving Trump and Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar with the insidious #GB5 background in mind. It clarifies a lot.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1050228979607715840

2/ Remember that Trump wanted as his VP, and eventually made his NSA, a man (Mike Flynn) investigated for his role in a plot to illegally extradite a man living in the US to Turkey. So *nothing* is beneath Trump and those of his aides and family implicated in both #GB5 and #GB6.

3/ "Foreign policy figures attended a dinner with A SENIOR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MIDDLE EAST. The official kept stressing that the U.S. had significant long-term interests in Saudi Arabia and repeatedly noted that Iran is a top threat..."

Uh, Kushner?

4/ OMG.

"The White House said Wednesday the powerful Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had spoken about Khashoggi the previous day with...Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser JARED KUSHNER."

The chances of a covert WH-Saudi agreement to "look away" just went up. A lot.