Today the president also pardoned Saudi Arabia. The CIA is preparing a report that is expected to tie the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, but the president got out in front of the CIA today and released a statement on Khashoggi’s killing.
It starts out with a calm reassuring message: “The world is a very dangerous place!” It is now! Apparently you can kill a Washington Post journalist and the president don’t give a damn, because Trump’s official presidential decision on who is a resolute, “I dunno.”
Trump wrote, “Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event. Maybe he did, and maybe he didn’t!”
Did Donald Trump just knowingly provide cover for a murderous autocrat? Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t. Someone wrote that down. Someone actually typed that -- “Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t.”
That statement informs us in no way. A Magic Eight Ball would have taken a firmer stance. Colbert as Trump, “Look things are not knowable. We live in a quantum state of flux, where time and matter coexist in interdimensional plasma in which all possible pasts and futures simultaneously manifest on the space-time continuum. And in that infinite multi-verse of non-congruent para-data, we must consider the possibility that I do weigh 239 pounds.” --Stephen Colbert
