If a Prince Murders a Journalist, That’s Not a Hiccup
"After journalist vanishes, focus shifts to young prince’s ‘dark’ and bullying side"
In the end, Saudi Arabia played Kushner, Trump and his other American acolytes for suckers.
By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Oct. 13, 2018
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Frankly, it’s a disgrace that Trump administration officials and American business tycoons enabled and applauded M.B.S. as he imprisoned business executives, kidnapped Lebanon’s prime minister, rashly created a crisis with Qatar, and went to war in Yemen to create what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis there. Some eight million Yemenis on the edge of starvation there don’t share this bizarre view that M.B.S. is a magnificent reformer.