What Trump said during 2016 and what he does now is quite a bit different. In 2016 he claimed he was going to be tough on the Saudis and his base went along with it, but after the election he flipped 180. His base has done diddly to hold him accountable. What his base was thinking then and what they are doing now are 2 different things. Why are you acting like my post was about the sentiments of his grass-roots in 2016, when clearly it is about Breitbart commenters' sentiments now.
Trump's base , the sort that swears by Breitbart , Fox News, WND and all statements by Trump and Co., are now either attacking Khashoggi or siding with Trump in being blase of the whole ordeal.
They support whatever they think Trump supports. If Trump is not being hard on Bin Salman, then they will take that as a cue to also not be hard on MBS. Since Don Jnr tweeted that bullshit smear of Khashoggi, the Trumpers take it as a cue to attack Khashoggi.
You do realize that the Saudis did not like Obama. They couldn't wait to see him leave. Obama put a hold on the weapons package that the US government had approved for Saudi Arabia. Obama would not give into Saudi pressure and depose Assad. Obama criticized Wahhabism.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...eign-policy-syria-jihadism-isis-a6927646.html
Commentators have missed the significance of President Barack Obama’s acerbic criticism of Saudi Arabia and Sunni states long allied to the US for fomenting sectarian hatred and seeking to lure the US into fighting regional wars on their behalf. In a series of lengthy interviews with Jeffrey Goldberg published in The Atlantic magazine, Mr Obama explains why it is not in the US’s interests to continue the tradition of the US foreign policy establishment, whose views he privately disdains, by giving automatic support to the Saudis and their allies.
President Obama is highly informed about the origins of al-Qa’ida and Islamic State, describing how Islam in Indonesia, where he spent part of his childhood, had become more intolerant and exclusive. Asked why this had occurred, Mr Obama is quoted as replying: “The Saudis and other Gulf Arabs have funnelled money, and large numbers of imams and teachers, into the country. In the 1990s, the Saudis heavily funded Wahhabist madrassas, seminaries that teach the fundamentalist version of Islam favoured by the Saudi ruling family.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...bama-saudi-arabia-trip-9-11-terrorist-attacks
The US president landed in Riyadh on Wednesday on his final trip to the region before leaving office. He will try to smooth the ruffled feathers of Saudis, Emiratis and Bahrainis who have come to resent their longstanding ally for “tilting” towards their rival Iran and pressing too hard for domestic reforms they fear will undermine the autocratic status quo.
After the Atlantic interview, Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief, retorted that Obama was being “petulant” and “adding insult to injury” in equating “the kingdom’s 80 years of constant friendship with America” with an irresponsible Iran.
Carnegie’s Perry Cammack said: “The end of the Obama administration can’t come quickly enough for some of these leaders.
Now as the article mentions Obama was opposed to the bill holding Saudis accountable to 9-11, but if you compare the entirety of America's relationship with Saudi under him with Bush Jnr you will notice Obama was much less favorable to Saudi
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https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-d...eshingly-clear-eyed-view-allies-saudi-arabia/
He is clearly irritated that foreign-policy orthodoxy compels him to treat Saudi Arabia as an ally
“Aren’t the Saudis your friends?,” Turnbull asked.
Obama smiled. “It’s complicated,” he said.
Obama’s patience with Saudi Arabia has always been limited….In the White House these days, one occasionally hears Obama’s National Security Council officials pointedly reminding visitors that the large majority of 9/11 hijackers were not Iranian, but Saudi—and Obama himself rails against Saudi Arabia’s state-sanctioned misogyny, arguing in private that “a country cannot function in the modern world when it is repressing half of its population.”
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Saudis Welcome Trump’s Rebuff of Obama’s Mideast Views
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/middleeast/donald-trump-saudi-arabia.html
Mr. Trump announced a nearly $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia as evidence of a renewed commitment by the United States to the security of the Persian Gulf region. The package includes precision weaponry that Mr. Obama had held up over concerns that it would be used to kill civilians in the war in neighboring Yemen, as well as an antimissile system.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...a-saudi-arabia-visit-king-salman-relationship
The president’s recent comment that the Saudis and Iranians should “share the neighbourhood” angered officials in Riyadh, leading to sharp public criticism of an American “pivot” towards the Islamic Republic in the run up to last summer’s landmark nuclear agreement
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https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/296029-saudis-wait-for-obamas-exit
President Obama’s departure from the White House will lead to a change in the United States’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, which the Persian Gulf nation is likely only too eager to see.
Obama has been at odds with the kingdom throughout the last eight years, most notably through his spearheading of a nuclear deal with the Saudis’ regional rival, Iran.
The estrangement was on full display earlier this year, when the royal family snubbed Obama by skipping his arrival in Riyadh for a Gulf summit.
Foreign policy experts say Saudi Arabia’s leadership is likely yearning for Obama to leave and looking forward to what may be a fuller embrace from the next president. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, in particular, is expected to take a warmer tone with the Saudis if she becomes president.
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So tell me again how Obama handled Saudi Arabia vs. Bush Jnr and Trump