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Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, the widow of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has shared how “upset” she was by President Donald Trump dismissing her husband’s brutal death by casually stating that “things happen.
There’s another transcript in Washington waiting to come to light. Rep. Eugene Vindman, a Virginia Democrat, is alleging there was a “shocking” 2019 call between President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia following the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi that the public needs to hear.
Jamal Khashoggi came from a prominent Saudi family but fled his country in June, 2017, after he'd become increasingly critical of his government. The Saudi journalist was murdered in 2018.
Things happen” is not how an American president should describe an assassination carried out inside a diplomatic facility.
President Donald Trump’s remarks about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and his defense of the Saudi crown prince are just the latest of his remarkable comments on human rights and alleged human rights abusers.
Representative Eugene Vindman of Virginia said he reviewed a classified transcript of the 2019 conversation that would “shock” Americans.
Washington — President Trump said Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, "knew nothing" about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite a 2021 intelligence report finding bin Salman ordered the killing.
“You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about,” Trump said of Khashoggi, who, again, was murdered, dismembered with a bone saw, under orders from the guy sitting to his right.
As US President Donald Trump rushes to defend Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over questions about the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Mirror takes a look at the journalist's agonising seven-minute ordeal,