Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."

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  1. That ship has sailed. The US is a flawed democracy. Even worse since tRump took office. Detaining people with NO criminal records (red line in second graph; The Guardian).

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  2. Donald Trump has killed 83 civilians on international water. Perhaps they were from Venezuela but we don't know.

    How can anyone call this a role model? The USA has become a terrorist state.

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  3. memv22.bsky.social profile picture

    And she is wrong where?? I’ll wait. Even after all the shit this is how people still feel about us and right now we are definitely disappointing them

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  4. This is my take... The journalist was close to getting the truth about how the Israelis got a hold of a list of undercover FBI agents and then 2 billion given to Kushner

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  5. America is the worlds terrorists. How many countries have the bombed to steal the resources of countries and forced change of democratically elected leaders that didn’t support them.

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  6. I am afraid for now at least that ship has sailed. Not only is the administration openly attacking the press, most of the press is waving the white flag. Sometimes preemptively giving in. Maybe we can reclaim it when the fascists are out, but who will do that? None of the current media.

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  7. Listen to Hanan Elatr Khashoggi. She's experienced it & seeing the demise of American democracy unraveling under 🍊🐂💩 regime.

    RIP

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  8. No we don’t, not any more, not by a long shot. The USSA is a crooked totalitarian state where citizens are being vanished akin to Israel and Russia. The USSA is done and it will take many many years for the rest of the world to take anything they say seriously again…bar when they crime that is.

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  9. The United States of America has gone to the dogs. If you need a credible role model in these dark times, look towards Western Europe. We have our issues but we ain't got a pig faced orange pedophile and convicted felon running anything on these shores.

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  10. Pardon the change in subject…

    Pls help spread this!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

    Virginia Giuffre’s most violent abuser (Ehud Barack, the “well-known prime minister”) is to speak at the New York Times DealBook Summit on 12/3/25!!!

    Call Andrew Ross Sorkin and/or NYT about this if you agree it should NOT be allowed!!!

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  11. I hope she understands that the people of the United States are not as stupid as the Trump administration

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  12. Trump sees the potential billions in Saudi money much more important than the civil rights of the people in Saudi Arabia, and if it takes allowing the murderer of a journalist into the White House what does he care? My heart and condolences go out to his widow who had to watch that spectacle.

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  13. We no longer look to USA for anything other than examples of “what to not do.” Any superiority and authority on human rights America had was extinguished when 77m voted for this regime.

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  14. TRUMP SNUGGLES UP TO THE MIDDLE EAST HIS WHOLE FAMILY IS OWNED BY SAUDIS. IN RETURN, TRUMP GAVE THEM MARALOGO WHITE HOUSE TOP SECRETS DOCUMENTS

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  15. And yet here we are in the US, with a #PedoPotusTrump who’s pushing us towards a dictatorship with every step he takes.

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  16. Truwp cozies up to anyone willing to make deals with his family. Make no mistake: if there is any advantage to the US is matched with a sweet deal for him. Human rights is for losers.

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  17. We used to be a role model. That time is long past. Even if democracy survives Trump, the U.S. will be an outcast. A pariah; no longer a trusted partner, ally or leader of the free world.

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  18. I was a bit confused at "widow" because I thought Kashoggi went into the Istanbul consulate to get a marriage certificate to Hatice Cengiz, who's Turkish.

    So I looked it up, and I gotta say, Hanan Atr's marriage claim seems...odd? Possibly an invention? I can't really grasp what's going on here.

    From the WaPo article:

"Members of Khashoggi’s family declined to comment on the marriage. His Turkish fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, said in a telephone interview that she was not aware of Khashoggi’s relationship with Atr and questioned her motives.

“Jamal never told me about this woman,” Cengiz said. “Why is she trying to change the picture people have of Jamal? What does she want? . . . I suspect that this is an attempt to discredit him and hurt his reputation.”

If she were to establish that she was Khashoggi’s legitimate wife, Atr could be in a position to claim part of any compensation that his family collects from the Saudi government. The legal status of Atr’s marriage to Khashoggi is unclear, however — neither appears to have obtained a marriage license.

Atr said that she has provided photos and other evidence of her marriage to Saudi and Turkish officials at a consulate in the Middle East. Some of those photos surfaced online this week in several posts to a Twitter account supportive of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."
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  19. Hanan Kashoggi is what the Magats tried to make the Kirk widow: the voice of a fallen martyr for freedom.

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