Trumps foreign policy incompetence may have just bit him hard. He may have stepped in it by appointing his son in law Jared Kushner as chief negotiator with the Saudis , specifically the Crowned Prince MbS. Kushner s inexperience and ameuteurish approach to the situation was to develop a relationship with the Prince which may have signaled to the Crowned Prince that the US would not retaliate in response to torture and murder of citizens abroad. There is an ugly rumour going around that Kushner could have shared US intelligence on certain “enemies” of Saudi Arabia and that Khashoggi might have turned into one of the targets based on that information. Even if it isn’t true, there is enough of an appearance of impropriety and enough of an outrage over the sheer ugliness of the whole event, that Trump may find his administration bogged down yet again by another “investigation” into Kushner and his doings with the Prince. It is an ugly optic that need not have occurred. Trumps apparent “patience” with the Saudis does not reflect well on his partnership with thugs and terrorists. The anti Trump faction has just been given great ammunition with which to attempt to remove him again. If the economy go sour, Trump may be stepping and fetching.