Trump says MBS “knew nothing” about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder despite findings of US report .1
Washington – President Trump said on Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, known as MBS, “knows nothing” about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Despite the 2021 intelligence report Finding Bin Salman ordered the assassination.
“You’re talking about a very controversial person,” Mr Trump said of Khashoggi in response to a reporter’s question about his business dealings despite the intelligence report’s findings. “A lot of people didn’t like that man you’re talking about, whether you liked him or not, but he didn’t know anything about it and we can leave it at that.”
I am sitting next to Mr. Trump in the oval office while Visiting the white housesaid Bin Salman, “for the journalist, it is really sad to hear that anyone loses his life for no real intention.” The Crown official also said, “We have taken all the necessary steps in terms of investigations, etc., in Saudi Arabia and we have developed our system to make sure that nothing like that happened.”
“It’s painful and a big mistake, and we’re doing everything we can so it won’t happen again,” Bin Salman said.
Bin Salman made his first visit to the White House since Khashoggi’s assassination. Bin Salman denied any involvement, but he told CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell In 2019 “60 minutes”, “I take full responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia, especially as it is done by people who work for the Saudi government.”
A 2021 US intelligence report concluded that “the crown prince has taken complete control of the Kingdom’s organizations and state organizations, making it very easy for Saudi officials to carry out this type of work without the guidance of the crown.”
After Mr Trump’s comments on Tuesday, Khashoggi’s widow, Hanani Khashoggi, directed a message on social media to him, writing, “There is no self-castration to kill my husband.”
“While Jamal was a good and brave man, many people may not agree with his views and wish for freedom of the press,” he wrote.
Mr Trump insists he has nothing to do with his family’s business dealings with Saudi Arabia, and insisted he has “done very little with Saudi Arabia, actually.”
Mr Trump called Bin Salman his friend and praised him as “amazing for human rights and everything else” as the Saudi Royal began visiting the White House since his assassination of Khashoggi.
As the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks pursued the state’s case that the state against the State, aided and abetted by Al Qaeda Hijackers, Salman sought to isolate the Saudi government from this attack.
“I feel sorry for, you know, the families of 9/11 in America, but you know, we have to focus on the truth,” Bin Salman said on Tuesday. “The truth based on CIA documents and based on many documents used by Osama bin Laden in that event with one goal: to destroy this relationship, the American-Saudi relationship.”
Bin Salman said that the one who “buys for” “helps” Osama bin Laden with the aim of destroying this relationship. ” Bin Salman said Bin Laden knew that the “tight” relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia was “extremely bad.”
Bin Salman and Mr Trump announced on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia would increase its investment of $ 600 billion in the US to almost $ 1 trillion.
