Democrat Demands Trump-Saudi Call Release, Forgetting US Arms Deals in Between
The New Arab reports a Democrat is demanding the release of Trump’s 2019 call with MBS regarding Jamal Khashoggi's murder. A noble pursuit, perhaps, but one might wonder where this same outrage was for the Biden administration's $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia in 2021, or the continuation of military support that fuels the slaughter in Yemen. This isn't just about Trump's phone calls; it's
about a consistent, bipartisan US policy of prioritizing arms sales and oil over human rights. Khashoggi's brutal murder was a horror, undeniably. But how many Yemeni civilians, dismembered by US-made bombs, deserved this level of scrutiny from the US legislature, let alone a demand for accountability from successive administrations? It appears that certain atrocities generate more public outrage
when it's politically convenient to investigate a previous administration.