State Department spox Heather Nauert is under fire after she dared to post a photo of herself outside the Royal Court to Instagram during her just-concluded trip with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Saudi Arabia.
NBC News’ David Gura tweets, “If I were the State Department’s spokesperson, on an official trip to learn more about the dark, dubious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a U.S. resident, I probably would have skipped the tourist-in-Riyadh photos. But that’s just me”:
If I were the State Department's spokesperson, on an official trip to learn more about the dark, dubious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a U.S. resident, I probably would have skipped the tourist-in-Riyadh photos. But that's just me. pic.twitter.com/oBBWOt1G5b
— David Gura (@davidgura) October 17, 2018
We’ll note that she posts photos to Instagram on all of her trips, but for some reason *this* one is a problem but not ones from say authoritarian North Korea:
Or China:
Ana Navarro thinks this is part of a “coordinated effort” to help the Saudis:
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Here u have more smiling pics from US State Department while on a “fact-finding mission” to investigate disappearance of a US Resident.
Trump Administration’s coordinated efforts to help Saudis cover-up #JamalKhashoggi’s gruesome murder, are simply disgusting. https://t.co/0Fx0upXrcD— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) October 17, 2018
Right. Tell us more, Ana, about the coordinated effort and who it targeted:
Foreign nations donating to Clinton Fndtn. They're "Ready for Hillary" too: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Canada. http://t.co/QHDpl09YGg
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) February 18, 2015
Or maybe she should have used a selfie stick:
This shot is really missing a selfie stick https://t.co/oqUTlIOCpO
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) October 17, 2018
You mean President Obama didn’t leave his in the White House for everyone to use?
.@TheFix By Obama's standards, not even close. Let me know when Trump starts walking around with a selfie-stick. pic.twitter.com/CeVamQwq7b
— A.C. Spollen (@ACSpollen) July 22, 2016
And Ronan Farrow did “like” the photo, whatever that’s worth:
She got that @RonanFarrow “like” though, and that’s all that matters https://t.co/cw12gAxWOt
— siraj hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) October 17, 2018
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