Meghan McCain and Abby Huntsman Rip Trump: ‘Failed Miserably’ on Saudis, Threw Intel Agencies Under Bus

The View spent the opener of their Thanksgiving episode in a distinctly un-festive way: covering President Donald Trump siding with Saudi Arabia over the CIA’s conclusions that the crown prince ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin questioned why Trump was treating the Saudis with such deference, bringing up the president’s business ties to the Gulf nation.

“What we have to ask ourselves, I think, as Americans is if the Saudis are intentionally lining his pockets, what do they expect in return?” Hostin asked. “That is the question. And perhaps they expect to get a pass on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.”

“Jamal Khashoggi was cut up into little pieces and brutally murdered for being a dissident journalist,” Meghan McCain said. “There’s a tectonic shift in our country right now where human rights violations, we’re okaying them. We don’t have the same response we once did.”

“I believe in America where we are a beacon — as Ronald Reagan said, a shining beacon on top of a hill,” she continued. “I just don’t know where we are as a country where you can slaughter a journalist and we’re not going to bat an eye, we’re going to say there will be no ramifications for this. It sends a message globally that you can brutally murder journalists and it’s okay and our president won’t listen to the audio because it’s too intense to hear.”

“Sad day for America,” Behar added.

“We’re shifting in a way that’s very dangerous, and it’s not the America I grew up in,” McCain said, lamenting the passing of her father, Sen. John McCain.

“There’s nothing ‘America First’ about throwing your intelligence community under the bus — ever,” added Abby Huntsman , whose father Jon Huntsman is the U.S. Ambassador to China. “These are moments where a president either rises as a true leader or you fail miserably, and I think he’s failed miserably on this.”

Watch above, via ABC.

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