Trump's son Don Jr. promotes false smear linking Jamal Khashoggi to Osama bin Laden and terrorism
Because of course they would. President Donald Trump's son Don Jr., along with pro-Trump extreme right wing media, are exploiting Washington Post contributing journalist Jamal Khashoggi's interviews with Osama bin Laden to imply that he supported Islamic terror, reports The Daily Beast. Khashoggi is reported to have been abducted, tortured, killed, and dismembered by agents of the Saudi government, inside their embassy in Istanbul.
The latest attack on Khashoggi's reputation started Friday with Patrick Poole, a terrorism correspondent for conservative website PJ Media. Poole ran images from a 1988 article Khashoggi wrote showing Khashoggi holding a rocket-propelled grenade with fighters in Afghanistan opposing the Soviet Union.
Khashoggi was among a number of journalists who interviewed Bin Laden in the 1980s and '90s. But the picture and article, Poole claimed, was proof that Khashoggi was "tooling around Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden."
"He's just a democrat reformer journalist holding a RPG with jihadists," Poole tweeted.
"Huh," Davis wrote. "It's almost like reality is quite different than the evidence-free narratives peddled by media with a long history of cooperating with or getting duped by Iran echo chamber architects."
Trump Jr. then boosted Davis' post, retweeting for his 3 million Twitter followers the attack on Khashoggi.