Current Events > Bolton on why he hasn't listened to Khashoggi tape: I don't speak Arabic

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/418505-bolton-on-why-he-hasnt-personally-listened-to-kahshoggi-tape-i-dont

National security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that there was no point in him personally listening to the audio that allegedly captures Jamal Khashoggi's murder by Saudi operatives because he doesn't speak Arabic.

"No, I haven't listened to it," Bolton told a reporter regarding the tape that Turkish authorities reportedly shared with the CIA. "I guess I should ask you why you think I should, what you think I'll learn from it."

"Well, you're the national security adviser," the reporter answered.

"How many in this room speak Arabic?" Bolton asked the White House press briefing room of journalists, prompting few to raise their hands.

"You don't have access to an interpreter?" the reporter pressed.

"Well, you want me to listen to it? What am I going to learn?" Bolton replied. "I mean if they were speaking Korean I wouldn't learn any more from it either."

"Well I think an interpreter would be able to tell you what's going on," the reporter returned.

"Well then I can read a transcript," Bolton said. "I'm just trying to make the point that everybody who says, 'Why don't you listen to the tape?' unless you speak Arabic, what are you going to get from it?"

The Trump administration has come under heavy criticism over its response to the Washington Post contributor's October murder in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Though the U.S. sanctioned several individuals accused of coordinating and executing the plot to assassinate Khashoggi, President Trump issued a statement last Tuesday in which he indicated that the U.S. government will remain allies with Saudi Arabia.

The president has dismissed reports that the CIA has high confidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman was involved in Khashoggi's murder.

"I hate the crime and I hate what is done and I hate the cover-up," Trump said last Tuesday. "And I will tell you this, the crown prince hates it more than I do."

Trump also told Fox News that he does not plan to listen to the tape.

"We have the tape. I dont want to hear the tape. No reason for me to hear the tape," Trump said earlier this month. "Its a terrible tape. Ive been fully briefed on it. Theres no reason for me to hear it."

Bolton only watches Dubs. He's no fan of Subs.
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The hospital where I work has access to interpreter services in the event that we receive patients who speak any number of languages.

Is the US National Security Advisor trying to say that he lacks such basic resources?
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Sad (truly)
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Bolton is an idiot and possibly the worst decision Trump has ever made, but he's not wrong that if he can read a transcript there's no point in listening to a bunch of audio that makes literally no sense. That being said, I wouldn't trust him hold the door for me, let alone hire a competent interpreter.
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lmao literally refusing to hear evidence against the Sauidis. Your president and his cronies sold us out
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s0nicfan posted...

Bolton is an idiot and possibly the worst decision Trump has ever made, but he's not wrong that if he can read a transcript there's no point in listening to a bunch of audio that makes literally no sense. That being said, I wouldn't trust him hold the door for me, let alone hire a competent interpreter.

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These liberal "reporters" are insufferable.
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It shouldn't be reality but it is.
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Lib reporters trying to get him in a gotcha moment, instead they keep making Trump's case that they aren't to be trusted nor listened to.
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LightHawKnight posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Bolton is an idiot and possibly the worst decision Trump has ever made, but he's not wrong that if he can read a transcript there's no point in listening to a bunch of audio that makes literally no sense. That being said, I wouldn't trust him hold the door for me, let alone hire a competent interpreter.

you don't think that listening to a recording of someone being killed might hit you differently than reading a transcript? really?
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VipaGTS posted...

LightHawKnight posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Bolton is an idiot and possibly the worst decision Trump has ever made, but he's not wrong that if he can read a transcript there's no point in listening to a bunch of audio that makes literally no sense. That being said, I wouldn't trust him hold the door for me, let alone hire a competent interpreter.

you don't think that listening to a recording of someone being killed might hit you differently than reading a transcript? really?

Do you want him to make a command decision that could affect the whole country based on the facts, or an emotional response? Bolton is a war monger. The less we can provoke him to anger the better.
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s0nicfan posted...

Do you want him to make a command decision that could affect the whole country based on the facts, or an emotional response? Bolton is a war monger. The less we can provoke him to anger the better.

If he can't react to the facts without jumping to war, he doesn't belong in power.
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Antifar posted...

If he can't react to anything without jumping to war, he doesn't belong in power.

folks on the right like s0nic have set the bar for leadership spectacularly low
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Doom_Art posted...

Antifar posted...

If he can't react to anything without jumping to war, he doesn't belong in power.

folks on the right like s0nic have set the bar for leadership spectacularly low

In this topic I am being, and have historically been, against Bolton's appointment. I don't like him, and I don't trust him. Are you taking that into consideration in your shitpost, or did you just feel like making a spectacularly stupid attempt at a low blow?
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Antifar posted...

If he can't react to the facts without jumping to war, he doesn't belong in power.

Bolton doesn't. I don't know how I could make that any clearer to you people.
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tremain07 posted...

Lib reporters trying to get him in a gotcha moment, instead they keep making Trump's case that they aren't to be trusted nor listened to.

You're right, nobody in this so called administration is worth listening to
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s0nicfan posted...

In this topic I am being, and have historically been, against Bolton's appointment. I don't like him, and I don't trust him. Are you taking that into consideration in your shitpost, or did you just feel like making a spectacularly stupid attempt at a low blow?

Yet you'll still support the GOP, which shits out people like Trump, Bolton, Moore, Sessions, etc.

Your being against Bolton's appointment means very little
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We would never have gone to war with Saudi Arabia. But we might have reconsidered our support for their war on Yemen.
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that's cuz the US is Saudi Arabia's bitch, they can get away with actual murder and Trump's response is literally "whatever, it's a cruel world"
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