In 2018, the CIA under the first Trump administration concluded that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder of a US resident and journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
The GOP-led Senate voted unanimously to condemn the crown prince. One Republican senator remarked at the time that if the matter went before a jury, the crown prince “would be convicted in 30 minutes.”
President Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he simply doesn’t care about Khashoggi’s killing all that much. But even by his standards, Trump’s comments alongside the crown prince on Tuesday were stunning.
Trump went from downplaying Khashoggi’s murder to vouching for the crown prince (who has denied personal involvement).
While Trump previously suggested we’d never know for sure whether the crown prince were guilty, this time he said affirmatively that Prince bin Salman “knew nothing about it.”
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