On this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Peace, to discuss President Donald Trump's resistance inside his administration.
President Trump has conceded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) “could very well” have known about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. But he's still not going to punish Saudi Arabia's government for it.
The CIA has “high confidence” in its findings that MBS directed Khashoggi's murder, and Trump was expected to receive a full CIA briefing today. Still, the president signaled in a statement earlier today that no matter what the CIA tells him, he still won't take retaliatory action against the Saudi government. What does this indicate?
Trump said Saudi Arabia is a “great ally,” is “leading the fight against Radical Islamic Terrorism” and has deep economic ties to the US. Giving up those ties would “be a wonderful gift” to Russia and China, Trump said, adding that it would fail Trump's “America first” mission. Trump then cast doubts on what the CIA may have learned about Khashoggi's death, saying, “We may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder.”
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