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This is INSANE. --> After Khashoggi's murder, "Mr. Kushner has offered the crown prince advice about how to weather the storm, urging him to resolve his conflicts around the region and avoid further embarrassments." nyti.ms/2zLH8xu
The better way for Saudi Arabia to “weather the storm” —

—Is to pick another leader that, uh, doesn’t kidnap prime ministers, help create humanitarian disasters, torture women activists in prison, or kill and dismember journalists.

Mohammed bin Salman should go.
Another important part of this story is the role of the UAE in promoting and supporting MBS, as well as the role of the UAE ambassador to Washington.

The UAE’s own repression goes under the radar, in no small part due to how much Emirati money flows into D.C.
“[UAE ambassador] Al-Otaiba, who had been promoting the Saudi prince in Washington for the past two years, was unequivocal about UAE backing of the likely future king as an agent of change who would adopt policies advocated by the UAE.”

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*Deep breaths*

It’s easy to get lost in the grief and outrage over Trump siding Saudi regime that thinks nothing of butchering peaceful journalists in consulates.

But hope is not all lost. Congress must act, and the American people can still help.

Here’s a thread #Khashoggi
1. Trump has basically chosen to ignore the CIA’s “high confidence” conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered #Khashoggi’s murder.

As @ThePlumLineGS and @paulwaldman1 note, Dem oversight can help flesh out the CIA’s conclusions

wapo.st/2qXD8oE
2) the Former CIA chief, @JohnBrennan has said that Congress should move to declassify the CIA intelligence on the Saudis, Mohammed bin Salman, and the #Khashoggi murder.

Congress must move in that direction.

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It's not just about Starbucks. It's about when white people use the police to remove black people from a particular space.

Recall what a McKinney, Texas cop did to a 100 pound, swimsuit-clad black girl when the police were called on a pool party: wapo.st/2HLa7V2
Or the police officer in South Carolina that flipped a black high school girl over her classroom desk and dragged her across the room for using a cell phone: mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/aft…
A white neighbor called the police after hearing his car windows were smashed. He saw a man in a hoodie and called the police.

Stephon Clark ended up dead. Shot 20 times. He was unarmed.

The white neighbor says he never wants to call 911 again.

amp.sacbee.com/news/local/cri…
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Since the early months of the Trump administration Jared Kushner has been having private conversations with Mohammed bin Salman. The exchanges continued even after the Oct. 2 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. nyti.ms/2zLH8xu
As the killing set off a firestorm around the world and American intelligence agencies concluded that it was ordered by Prince Mohammed, Kushner became the prince’s most important defender inside the White House, people familiar with its internal deliberations say.
The ties between Kushner and Prince Mohammed did not happen on their own. MBS and his advisers, eager to enlist American support for his hawkish policies in the region and for his own consolidation of power, cultivated the relationship with Kushner for more than two years.
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Trump and @IvankaTrump met with murderer Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman on the sidelines of a leaders meeting at the G20 summit.

They knew.

They knew he ordered that a Washington Post Journalist be dismembered with a saw while he was still alive
The world will NEVER forget that @IvankaTrump and Kushner have a continuing relationship with a brutal murderer

Never let them back into society.

#Khashoggi was dismembered will still alive. Trump refuses to listen to the gruesome audio

These people are monsters
Saudi crown prince bragged that Jared Kushner gave him CIA intelligence about other Saudis saying 'here are your enemies' days before 'corruption crackdown' which led to torture & death

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Blood on their hands
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After Trump, Pompeo & Kushner knew the Saudi crown prince ordered the live dismemberment & murder of Washington Post's #Khashoggi

“They began to cut his body while he was still alive”

Wall Street Journal featured giggling @SecPompeo with the murderer

Trump 2015

“Saudi Arabia, I get along w all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 M. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much"

Now Trump, Kushner, @IvankaTrump & Pompeo involved in a gruesome murder & dismemberment
Trump, Kushner and @IvankaTrump will do ANYTHING for money. Pompeo ... just a sad hanger on, wanting the job. Probably getting nothing except bloody hands and a trip to hell.

Ivanka Trump has served as a PR puppet for Saudi Arabia.

Follow the 💰

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President Erdogan to reveal information about the killing of Jamal #Khashoggi as Saudi investment conference kicks off in Riyadh. We'll be watching media in both countries for updates.
The Saudi conference - dubbed #DavosInTheDesert - has kicked off in Riyadh.
Turkey's Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin has said the #Khashoggi scandal is not only an issue between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but about "shedding light on an atrocious murder.”
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Saudi scapegoats general for assassination of #Khashoggi:

By royal decree, Ahmed Assiri has been removed from his post as a deputy intelligence chief.
This is insane.

The Saudis brought a BONE SAW with them.

“He got in a fight with 18 of our guys and accidentally died so then we totes had to cut up his body so we could transport his remains more easily.”

(KSA has not addressed the whereabouts of #Khashoggi in revealing the results of its “investigation.”)
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