Trump "told confidantes he feels betrayed by the Saudis,"

The murder of a man--a resident of the US not a concern---just the optics. just the optics and his feelings. damn.



Trump condemns Khashoggi death and aftermath as 'the worst cover up ever'

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/trump-irritated-khashoggi-death/index.html


By Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak and Elise Labott, CNN

Updated 7:16 PM ET, Tue October 23, 2018
Trump on journalist's death: Worst cover-up ever


(CNN)President Donald Trump offered his most stinging indictment yet of a Saudi effort to silence a dissident journalist, calling the series of events that led to Jamal Khashoggi's death "the worst cover up ever."
"The cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups," Trump said from the Oval Office. "It's very simple."
Later Tuesday, Trump went further, calling the episode a "total fiasco."...............................



.............In recent days, the President has complained about the negative coverage blanketing cable television and told confidantes he feels betrayed by the Saudis, who have presented shifting accounts about what happened to the journalist after he entered the Saudi consulate in Turkey three weeks ago to obtain a marriage document and never left.

The President, who spoke Sunday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is privately blaming them for making him look bad. At times he has talked about how much he has done so much for the Saudis, complaining that they put him in this position.
Trump doesn't like that he and his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner have been depicted as overly cozy with the Saudis. ..........................