‘Hardball’ Horror: Rhodes Hints Trump Backs Dead Reporters, Matthews Compares Kushner to Saudi Prince

‘Hardball’ Horror: Rhodes Hints Trump Backs Dead Reporters, Matthews Compares Kushner to Saudi Prince (NewsBusters)

Thursday’s lead Hardball segment offered blistering hot takes concerning the likely death of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi with former Obama administration official Ben Rhodes suggesting that President Trump’s disdain for the press allowed for Khashoggi’s death and host Chris Matthews equating Jared Kushner to the Saudi Crown Prince.

Unfortunately for Matthews, his runaway comparisons between Kushner and the Mohammad bin Salman was quashed by The Washington Post’s Robert Costa, who tamped down on Matthews’s link between Kushner and the U.S. response to Khashoggi’s disappearance.

Matthews first teed Rhodes up by arguing that “[t]his seems to be a clear-cut case” where America “defend[s] a journalist who apparently was killed, according to the President, was killed but it doesn’t seem like we're taking the side of the victim here and his interests against the killer.”