Donald Trump throws Jared Kushner under the Saudi Arabia bus
Seventeen days after the Saudi Arabian government murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudis finally acknowledged on Friday that Khashoggi had died in their consulate, but tried to blame the whole thing on a fistfight. Saudi puppet Donald Trump then quickly told the media that he found the story “credible.” That went over predictably poorly, so now Trump is trying a different tactic: blaming it on his own son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Donald Trump has now abandoned his position that the Saudi story is credible, and he’s instead telling reporters that “obviously there’s been deception, and there’s been lies” on the part of the Saudi Arabian government. But of course Trump has to blame someone for the fact that he’s handled this so poorly, so now he’s leaking to the Washington Post that he thinks Kushner’s close relationship with the Crown Prince has become a “liability.”
This an interesting development, to say the least. While Donald Trump and Jared Kushner are both clearly financial puppets of the Saudi Arabian government, Kushner is the one who has the personal relationship with the Crown Prince. In fact it was widely reported that Kushner traveled to Saudi Arabia and stayed up all night talking strategy with the Crown Prince just before he began arresting several members of his own royal family in an attempt at consolidating power.
So yeah, Donald Trump is correct that Jared Kushner deserves a big part of the blame for the Saudi Crown Prince’s out-of-control and now murderous behavior. By putting this out there to the media, Trump is hoping to get the public to blame Kushner for the Khashoggi debacle, instead of blaming Trump. Of course this only works if Trump is willing to fire Kushner in order to make the scapegoating complete. It’s always felt like Trump and Kushner were going to take each other down as their overlapping criminal scandals closed in on them – and now we might be arriving at that point.
