Not one protest!

Not one protest!

by digby




Trump didn't mention human rights in his big Islam speech yesterday. Not that he knew what he was saying. But the effect is that the US is publicly declaring that human rights are no longer a factor in US foreign policy. Of course. (Well, unless Trump needs an excuse to bomb someone over chocolate cake to prove to a foreign leader that he's got big hands.)

Anyway, who needs human rights? They are so messy.

Here's Commerce Secretary Wilber Ross:

“There was not a single hint of a protester anywhere during the whole time we were there,” he said. “Not one guy with a bad placard.”

At this point, the CNBC host interrupted him and pointed out that there generally aren’t protests in Saudi Arabia because it does not allow public displays of dissent.

“In theory that could be true,” Ross conceded. “But there was not a single sign that there was any effort at incursion, there wasn’t anything. The mood was a genuinely good mood, and at the end of the trip, as I was getting back on the plane, the security guards for the Saudis’ side who had been helping us over the weekend all wanted to pose for a big photo op, and then they gave me two gigantic bushels of dates as a present… That was a pretty from-the-heart genuine gesture.”



They like him they really like him.

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