To the editor:
Last week, as he flew off to another campaign rally, President Trump finally conceded that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is “probably dead.” He even admitted that “it’s sad.”
At his campaign rally in Montana later that evening, Trump singled out Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte and praised him for his assault on a reporter: “Any guy who can do a body slam, he’s my candidate, he’s my guy.”
Does anyone believe that Trump thinks it is “sad” that a Washington Post columnist was allegedly tortured and dismembered, piece by piece, within the walls of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul? And all for 14 billion shekels of silver, dripping from the blood-stained hands of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman into the coffers of Trump’s arms merchants.
The nation that was built on freedom is led by a craven and depraved president.
John B. Ashbaugh, San Luis Obispo
