America's moral standing and the man responsible for it

If you haven't read the details of Washington Post Reporter Jamal Khashoggi's murder  in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Turkey, here you go. Warning, it's graphic:

Saudi agents were waiting when Jamal Khashoggi walked into their country’s consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. Mr. Khashoggi was dead within minutes, beheaded, dismembered, his fingers severed, and within two hours the killers were gone, according to details from audio recordings described by a senior Turkish official on Wednesday.  Link

They're not sure if he was dead or not when they started cutting off his fingers. Some reports suggest he was still alive. When the Saudi Consul complained to the assassins that they were messing up his office (what with all the limb severing and all) one of the security agents threatened his life.

After Saudi Arabia initially denied it, our President, defender of American morals in the world, said that maybe "rogue killers" murdered Khashoggi, an excuse the Saudis would offer shortly after, but Trump did it before them. Then he said this:

“Here we go again with, you know, you’re guilty until proven innocent,” Trump told The Associated Press. “I don’t like that.”

“We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh and he was innocent all the way as far as I’m concerned,” the president said.

It's pretty clear the the Turks have an audio recording of the actual murder. The murder of an American resident. It's also clear it was under the direct order of the Crown Prince and Jared Kushner pal, MBS.

Here's the deal. Trump will NEVER take the side of the powerless against the powerful. He openly admires murderous dictators while insulting their victims. He is incapable of empathy but sees himself in bloody autocrats. This is a man who says he LOVES Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, a man who had his uncle executed with anti-aircraft guns and has starved thousands (millions?) of his people.

So do the difficult thing and impose sanctions on a country that has personally given him millions of dollars? Take a stand for decency and morality?

He will never do it.

Remember the hurricane that destroyed a lot of the Florida panhandle? Where's Trump on that problem? He visited the area for a few hours. Have you heard anything more from him? Where's the leadership? He showed up and apparently the problem has been solved.

And in case you think he's capable of learning.

The president said the spate of storms would not prompt him to rethink his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, repeating his contention that the agreement’s requirements would handicap the United States in its economic competition with other countries.  Link

Money is more important to Trump than human lives, American moral standing, what's right, and pretty much everything else. Including the very future of the human race.