US EditionTrump at Odds with CIA Assessment on Khashoggi Killing
President Trump praised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite CIA and U.S. intelligence assessments linking him to Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 assassination.
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Trump at Odds with CIA Assessment on Khashoggi Killing
President Donald Trump brushed aside a reporter’s question to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the 2018 killing of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying the crown prince “knew nothing about it and we can leave it at that.” But Trump’s claim is at odds with a CIA assessment. U.S. intelligence assessments — leaked to reporters in 2018 and later released in a declassified report in early 2021 — concluded the cro…
Commentary: Trump and Saudi crown prince bond over their contempt — and fear — of a free press
The CIA concluded that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside Saudi Arabia's embassy in Istanbul in 2018. President Trump dismissed the killing as just one of those "things" that happens sometimes. And, true to form, attacked the press for asking about it.
Hanan Elatr Khashoggi deemed the US President "uninformed." Donald Trump described Saudi dissident of man as "extremely controversial," at his meeting on Tuesday with Saudi Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 2018 by Saudi agents.
The Saudi Crown Prince had not been received in Washington since the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
Commentary: Trump and Saudi crown prince bond over their contempt — and fear — of a free press
… formal assessment. Tuesday, President Trump showered the Saudi leader with praise during … his planned marriage to a Turkish woman. The prince knew nothing … prince, Hungary’s Victor Orban and Vladimir Putin: The president doesn’t …
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