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To be fair I haven't seen anything suggesting any allegations of false financial declarations and sweeteners against her, where did you see that? She was basically a puppet for trump at the UN, as I suppose all Ambassadors are to a degree. There has been talk of her running against trump in the next election for a while but that would be political suicide for her or any other Republican at this point!!
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It's in that bbc report SCO - an anti-corruption watchdog accused her of accepting plane flights and other undeclared "sweeteners" - initiated the day before her resignation and possibly a case of "gotcha"!
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Pardon my cynicism but I'd add there are $70B worth of reasons why Trump and this US administration will literally endorse the state assassination of a targeted individual like this latest poor victim and my heart "bleeds" for his family! Isn't it strange that we have laws in our country that cover any "small time" citizen murdering another individual and yet there are so many examples of nations who murder their own targeted individuals, some of them do it with diabolical bombing tactics, and they remain unchallenged and "stock free"!! This is the world we live in during the 21st century - a joke and the word "hypocrisy" sits raw in my throat!!
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Absolutely right! One such previous incident that always stuck vividly in my mind was the Rainbow Warrior sinking/murder in 1985 by the French Foreign Intelligence Service whose agents were caught and jailed in Australia but then the French govt "bought off" the Aussies. I honestly hoped at that time that the pair of them would be executed because they would've deserved that fate but Greenpeace and it's members and people worldwide watched in astonishment when two governments condoned this manslaughter/murder and they did a "deal" unchallenged!! Absolute hypocrisy and totally unacceptable!! I'm just watching Trump's interview re the Saudi position and his body language is a giveaway - arms crossed close to his body, no relaxed facial expression - a subdued DT not quite condoning the Saudi position but leaning towards that line, a shocker!!