Here's a new global trend that you might not have picked up on.

In February 2017, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's dictator is waiting for a flight

at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia when two female assassins spray VX nerve agent

on his face, causing him to feel dizzy, collapse, and die before the ambulance carrying him

can make it to a nearby hospital.

Then, in March 2018, two Russian operatives attempt to assassinate a defector,

Sergei Skropal, in Salisbury, England by exposing him to a military-grade chemical agent

known as Novichok.

And this month, dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul

and never leaves amid reports that he was brutally murdered.

His body and fingers dismembered by a team of assassins dispatched from Riyadh.

What do these cases have in common?

All three victims were political exiles, living abroad, and were targeted by agents of the despotic

regimes they fled. Is this the new normal? The preferred way for authoritarian governments to

deal with pesky dissidents in the 21st century? One other common denominator worth mentioning.

The regimes of all three countries that carried out these attacks are run by leaders for whom

President Trump has had kind words. North Korea's Kim Jong-un, Russia's Vladimir Putin,

and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. As we sort out the latest murky news on the

Kashoggi case, we'll discuss the new wave of 21st century state-sponsored assassinations

on today's Skolduggery.

There is absolutely no collusion. I didn't make a phone call to Russia. I have nothing to do with

Russia. Everybody knows it. Because people have got to know whether or not their

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