“Things happen.”

This is how our president, who took an oath to defend the Constitution and uphold the law, responded Nov. 18 to a question on whether the man in the fancy robes sitting next to him in the White House was a murderer.

The robe guy was none other than Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. He wants to be a big player in the modern world, but he has a few issues.

For starters, the nation that the crown prince, nicknamed MBS, runs still drags criminals into public squares and chops off their heads with a sword – just like it did back in those fun-loving ancient days of desert tents, camels, slave trading and husbands with multiple wives. But when it comes to modern times and the United States, the issues with Saudi Arabia and MBS are even more troubling.

The FBI has uncovered evidence that Saudi officials might have helped the gang of Islamist zealots who carried out the deadliest attack on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001. And seven years ago, the CIA concluded that the crown prince himself ordered a 15-man team of Saudi intelligence operatives to kill and dismember Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi-born legal permanent resident of the United States and a columnist for The Washington Post.

On Nov. 18 in the Oval Office, Trump dismissed Khashoggi’s brutal murder as “things happen.” The president also added this bit of wisdom: “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen.”

People didn’t like that gentleman? Things happen?

Is this an American president talking about a real death of a person who had legal residency or a two-bit actor auditioning for a low-budget mob movie? Who talks like that anyway when discussing a killing?

As for the Saudi........

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