(This post may contain disputed claims. We make no assertions as to the validity of the information presented by our Opinion Columnist. We are an opinion blog, not a traditional news outlet, and this post should be treated as such. Enjoy.)Meghan McCain is promoting the new leftist narrative that President Donald Trump is somehow to blame for the death of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2 and was reportedly murdered. McCain cites Trump’s Montana rally, where he made a joke about Rep. Greg Gianforte body-slamming a reporter in May 2017, as condoning violence. Well, poor Meghan and her co-hosts on The View got a nasty surprise they never saw coming.
Meghan McCain has completely gone over to the dark side. She should just come out and register as a Democrat at this point. She constantly compares her father, John McCain, to President Donald Trump, as she did on The View Friday morning.
The View did an entire Trump-bashing segment on the death of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi. For those who don’t know, Khashoggi was reportedly cut into pieces by Saudi operatives while inside their consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Right now, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Istanbul trying to figure out the truth.
But, instead of waiting for Pompeo, the Democrats are trying really hard to pin Khashoggi’s death on Trump, and that’s where the shrews of The View come in. During Trump’s recent rally in Montana, he joked about Rep. Greg Gianforte body-slamming a reporter in May 2017, right before his election.
CNN reported, “Trump had praised Gianforte for assaulting a reporter during his campaign last May, saying ‘any guy who can do a body slam … he’s my guy’ and made a gesture mimicking a body slam. At a Montana rally Thursday night, Trump admitted, ‘I shouldn’t say this,’ but continued and said, ‘there’s nothing to be embarrassed about.'”
Well, those comments caused the leftists to feign fake outrage. How dare Trump condone violence against the press at a time like this, they asked, and they were quick to say he is responsible for Khashoggi’s death. That’s the new narrative which The View promoted in their segment, and Meghan ran with it.
She said, “I’m trying to hold, I’m trying really hard to hold myself to the same standards that I hope would be in the spirit of where I come from, the family I come from, and I hope across the board the Trumps could take a beat when one of our journalists has been slaughtered in the Middle East!”
Moments later she forcefully added, “So, he’s [Trump] not going to lead. We’re almost two years into his administration. So, we hold ourselves accountable. We’re television commentators, journalists as well. I just think if he can’t do it and he can’t be the example, we have to be the example we don’t have!”
This is what happens when you get a grandiose idea about yourself. Meghan exclaiming that “the Trumps needs to take a beat when one of our journalists has been slaughtered” is tantamount to saying the president’s joke in Montana and how he has come out against the leftist controlled media somehow contributed to Khashoggi’s death.
That’s just absurd. Maybe if Meghan and the shrews would have done their homework, they would realize the president had nothing to do with this reporter’s death. As The Washington Times reports, “Middle East insiders say some deeper subplots played into Mr. Khashoggi’s disappearance — stemming from his long career of political activism, ties to Saudi intelligence and Mr. Khashoggi’s past relationship with the Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood.”
They add, “Mr. Khashoggi, who was 59 when he disappeared at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, is said to have withdrawn years ago from any formal affiliation with the Brotherhood, but his past ties to the transnational Islamist group are believed to have been a source of distrust for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.”
The New York Times, citing interviews with longtime friends of Mr. Khashoggi, reported that he was in the midst of raising money for Democracy in the Arab World Now, or DAWN, when he disappeared in Turkey, whose own government is a rival to Saudi Arabia in the Muslim world and has close ties to Qatar and to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now, how has that got anything to do with President Trump? And, if Meghan McCain and the shrews on The View are such hard-hitting journalists and television commentators, whom she claims should be the shining example for us all, well, she certainly has fallen short.
This is just another example in a long list where Meghan McCain will ignorantly take the side of the leftist media to trash President Trump. It’s really not a good look on McCain who is now part of the resistance to destroy America and make it into a socialist utopia. It’s a really good thing she’s on the losing side. President Trump is more popular now than he has ever been.
