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Daniel Dale @ddale8
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Trump has issued a very-Trumpian statement on Saudi Arabia and Khashoggi. There's a lot going on in this one.
The president says in the statement: "Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!"
Trump also makes sure to include the Saudi line on Khashoggi: "Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an “enemy of the state” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that – this is an unacceptable and horrible crime."
And Trump, as usual, relies on his claim -- false, as far as anyone outside the White House can tell -- that Saudi has agreed to $450 billion worth of purchases from the U.S., including $110 billion in military purchases. There's been no substantiation of either of these numbers.
In summary, Trump is saying (again): Saudi Arabia is very important for the economy and for national security, so he's standing with them no matter what happened with Khashoggi, which is, in his view, impossible to determine.
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