I normally wouldn’t write two CNN stories in a row, but I just saw another of their clips and I couldn’t let it be.
In the clip below, CNN appears to be blaming Trump for the “aggressive behavior” that led to Khashoggi’s death.
Watch the clip:
"You can’t simply go around saying journalists are the enemy of the people and not have others around the world believe that,” Fmr. US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan tells @jimsciutto of the global impact of President Trump's comments pic.twitter.com/ALWFJY9FlK
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) October 19, 2018
They don’t come right out and say that Trump is to blame. But clearly, at least to me, they are making the implication.
Why go back and point out something a murdered journalist said a year ago regarding Trump’s rhetoric encouraging Saudi “aggressive behavior” and then bring on a former Ambassador to agree with his comments, if their ultimate point isn’t to imply a connection between Trump and this horrific, gruesome murder?
The whole thing is really disgusting, especially when you consider that Trump didn’t say journalists were the enemy of the people in the first place. Nor was he implying when said “fake news media” is the enemy of the people that journalist need to be gruesomely murdered.
But whatever. Now CNN appears to be using it to indirectly blame Trump for Khashoggi’s murder, or am I wrong about this?