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A major evangelical leader has spoken in defense of US-Saudi relations after the apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi consulate, saying that America has more important things like arms deals to focus on.
Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, appeared on its flagship television show The 700 Club on Monday to caution Americans against allowing the United States relationship with Saudi Arabia to deteriorate over Khashoggis death.
For those who are screaming blood for the Saudis look, these people are key allies, Robertson said. While he called the faith of the Wahabists the hardline Islamist sect to which the Saudi Royal Family belongs obnoxious, he urged viewers to remember that weve got an arms deal that everybody wanted a piece of
itll be a lot of jobs, a lot of money come to our coffers. Its not something you want to blow up willy-nilly.
Robertson praised the approach of President Donald Trump, who has publicly cast doubt on the allegations against the Saudis, comparing them to those of sexual assault against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh earlier this month. On Wednesday, after the New York Times reported that it had obtained audio of Khashoggi being tortured, murdered, and dismembered inside the consulate, Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak reported that Trump said that he had requested the recording, if it exists, later adding Im not sure that it exists.
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/17/17990268/pat-robertson-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-trump-crisis
roody
(10,849 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)who is Donald Trump, of course.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)who is Donald Trump, of course.
spanone
(135,873 posts)nmgaucho
(527 posts)That fucker needs to burn in it! What a disgusting human being just like Trump
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)PS. There is no $100 billion deal.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)I have no use for televangelists. Stealing money from the sick and the old.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)I assume he realizes that his followers' tiny pea brains already forgot what he's said in the past. Hell, most of them don't remember last week from this week.
Do you think it's possible that there has been a previously unnoticed epidemic of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome in the US? Only half kidding.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Do the world a favor asshole.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am convinced they have all sold their souls to the devil.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)See what I mean?
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)That's older than the earth according to 'some' Biblical scholars.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)how about the murders of 3000 plus on 9/11 Pat ?
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)None of that " business" funding is coming to our homes. Unless DU wants to start a gun runners business.
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Which may cause your post to be interpreted in a very different light than you perhaps intended.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Especially after V for Vendetta.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)Kaleva
(36,341 posts)thucythucy
(8,086 posts)"Blessed are the arms dealers..."
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He'd flip your table over on top of you.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)bluestarone
(17,030 posts)are shining through!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Thirty-round magazines, too. Its true, its in the New King Trump Bible, Two Corinthians.
Crunchy Frog
(26,630 posts)And besides, remember how Pat turned away the killer hurricanes, so you know you can trust him.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)That some seriously sinister s***.
I bet Pat Robertson would crucify Jesus a second time once he found out Jesus really was a liberal.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)$1 billion? What, exactly, is your price, Pat Robertson?
Maine-i-acs
(1,499 posts)ergo, STFU, false Christian.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Robertson has always been one of the worst of the worst among the religious con men.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Jesus dont like killin, no matter whats the reason for
Of course, guys like this grifter dont really care about the words of Jesus.
Hell, I am not even a believer.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Judas was an early modern day conservative disciple.
Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.
Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker and their ilk get millions of dollars repeatedly for selling Christ.
Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale.