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>I'm saying Donald Trump shrugged his shoulders in part because Khashoggi wrote for the Washington Post. Or maybe he shrugged his shoulders because a foreign intelligence agent got killed by a foreign intelligence agency in a foreign country? Surely Trump, with U.S. and allied intelligence at his disposal, must have been made aware of Khashoggi's true nature. Indeed, the German press was reporting that Khashoggi was…
> Or maybe he shrugged his shoulders because a foreign intelligence agent got killed by a foreign intelligence agency in a foreign country? For the longest time Trump refused to even consider that Saudi Arabia was responsible for the killing, so that's a stretch. > Surely Trump, with U.S. and allied intelligence at his disposal, must have been made aware of Khashoggi's true nature. Trump famously discounts the conclu…
If your definition of 'refused to even consider' is raised the issue directly with the leader of Saudi Arabia, well then, sure.