Trump has a plan to make Saudis pay

For all those who feel that Trump has crossed over to the dark side, I ask, since when does Trump give away anything without a payback? As much news that we are subjected to on an hourly basis, what makes you think you know what is going on?

Trump has taken the Saudi Crown Prince at his word that he did not have anything to do with the killing of Mr. Khashoggi. Is this true? Who knows?

The point is our president has accepted the Saudis' word. My next question is what did he get in return? Who knows? However, President Donald Trump did not do this out of warm feelings for the Crown Prince. He got two somethings back. Soon we will learn of the first public one. It will be designed to satisfy most people, and the second one, we may never know what took place.

The second one, whatever it will be, is the real deal. It will not be made public immediately. Perhaps it may never be revealed, because it could be strategically embarrassing to the Crown Prince and the Kingdom, but be confident that it will cost the Saudis plenty unless our allies screw it up.

That is the Art of The Deal.

Dushan O. Lipensky

Wheaton