$100M in Saudi money lands in US accounts as Pompeo landed in Riyadh

[BeckyDem]

By Michael Burke - 10/17/18 09:52 AM EDT

On the same day that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Saudi Arabia to discuss the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a previously promised $100 million landed in American bank accounts from Saudi Arabia, according to a The New York Times report.

The Times reported that the money was for American efforts to stabilize Syria and that Saudi Arabia had promised the Trump administration the funds over the summer.

The timing of the arrival of the money has raised eyebrows among some bureaucrats, the Times reported, as speculation heightens over the disappearance of Khashoggi.

The Washington Post columnist was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, and Turkey has said that it has evidence that Saudi Arabian officials killed and dismembered him inside the consulate.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/411802-100m-in-saudi-money-lands-in-us-accounts-as-pompeo-landed-in-riyadh

[Me.]

1. So We've Been Bought Off Then

[BeckyDem]

3. This story is blowing up a lot of past and present problems with the Saudis, imho.

I was listening to a former US ambassador to SA on CNN and he was going on about how we have to be careful how we go about this because we need them so much. I was like WHAT? He was placing less relevance to the murder of the journalist and no mention of the war against the people of Yemen.

I don't think this is going to sit well any longer with the American people. Its been too ugly and way too dangerous to go ahead with business as usual with the Saudis. Although that is the direction Trump and his thugs are headed.

[Me.]

5. Jeffrey Goldberg Editor Of The Atlantic

was on Morning Joe doing the same. You know...the reality of it all, the Saudis are any worse than others in the region blah, blah, blah.

[BeckyDem]

6. Sad, isn't it.

[Me.]

7. Cold Bloodedly Horrifying

[Achilleaze]

2. "Thank you 100 million times. Slurp. Slop." - KGOP republicans

[BeckyDem]

4. +1

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. How about a bill that addresses the costs taxpayers are underwriting to keep SA and BO in business?

Send them both an annual bill of, say, $300 BB? That $600BB total would offset the costs we have in Defense spending to make sure they can get their product to market.

Sure, the costs will get passed on to the consumer....but that could eventually lead to an economic boom in development of Nat Gas/wind/solar/storage technologies. Electric car/transportation would replace the gas engine. Could certainly drive a new economic restructuring to meet the economic/environmental threats that we face today and in the future.

And lets start building walls and lots of them.......they are called seawalls.That might help keep 100MM people from suffering catastrophic losses going forward. And provide real American job creation.