It takes a special moral flexibility to host a man at the White House who is confirmed by the U.S. intelligence to be a murderer. And imagine lecturing a reporter for bringing it up? Donald Trump did exactly that in defense of the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, when asked about Jamal Khashoggi.
On Monday, an ABC reporter asked two obvious, uncomfortable questions to Trump and Mohammed bin Salman at the Oval Office. Why should Americans trust a leader the CIA concluded approved a journalist’s murder? And why is the Trump family pursuing business interests in a country whose government dismembered a journalist for no crime?
