Joaquin Castro goes full Trump. You never go full Trump.

Joaquin Castro accuses Kushner of orchestrating killing of Khashoggi

Mind you, this is a guy who graduated from Stanford with honors and got his J.D. from Harvard Law, so he can’t really blame defective genes or a poor education. God only knows what was going through his head.

He referred to “the reporting that Jared Kushner may have, with U.S. intelligence, delivered a hit list, an enemies list, to the crown prince, to MBS, in Saudi Arabia and that the prince may have acted on that, and one of the people he took action against is Mr. Khashoggi.”

Castro, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN he did not have substantial evidence to support his claim, but repeatedly cited media reports on the subject.” He did not identify those mysterious reports. Perhaps he reads crackpot sources like this.

In other words, Castro had no evidence for accusing the President’s son-in-law of orchestrating a brutal murder, but claimed “people are saying” and he did not identify those people. He truly followed the Gospel According to Trump!

5 thoughts on “Joaquin Castro goes full Trump. You never go full Trump.

  1. It’s about as good of evidence as Trump uses to dismiss global warming. Hey…the insane ass-clown set the rules!

    1. Sadly accurate. I don’t expect a return to sanity, if insanity is what motivates the base of each party.

      Once a door like that is opened, it rarely closes.

      It’s like beginning a beguine.

  2. I think it is fairly clear here the cynical game Joaquin Castro is playing: the Republican Party these days is a party of extremists, but when it comes to foreign policy/affairs, they are divided between the extremist neo-conservatives and the extremist isolationists. The neo-conservatives certainly seem to be the majority of the Republican Party, both the elected members and the Republican voting public, but the isolationist contingent is certainly not fringe in the party.

    I think it’s fairly obvious Joaquin Castro is trying to spread this rumor in order to depress midterm election turnout among the Republican isolationists. I don’t know if it will have any impact, so I don’t know if it’s smart politics or not, but it’s cynical and unethical and not the sort of thing Democratic politicians should engage in.

  3. The idea that Kushner presented the Saudis with a list of people and told them “Here, these are your enemies” was reported by a reputable source, The Intercept. There is little doubt Khashoggi’s name was on the list. So yes, it may have been more than excusing it; it may be that we gave the Saudis the perceived green light, or encouraged them to do this with the thought we’d be okay with it.

    https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/

    1. Even if the Intercept’s story was correct, there obviously is no connection between anything Kushner might have said and Khashoggi’s murder. MbS did not need any intelligence to know Khashoggi opposed him. It was upfront and public in Khashoggi’s column and on CBS News! To draw a connection between Kushner and the murder is pure Trump-level insanity!

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