Trump boasted he protected MBS after Khashoggi hit: Report

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Trump boasted he protected MBS after Khashoggi hit: Report
Trump bragged to author Bob Woodward that he protected Saudi crown prince after 2018 assassination of Khashoggi.
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Trump reportedly bragged that he protected Mohammed bin Salman from consequnces in the US after the assassination of Khashoggi [File: Presidency Press Service via AP Photo]
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President Donald Trump boasted that he protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) after Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder, Bob Woodward's forthcoming book says, according to a new report.
Trump bragged that he protected the Saudi crown prince from consequences in the United States after the assassination of Khashoggi in October 2018, the news outlet Business Insider reported on Thursday.
"I saved his a**," President Trump said about the US outcry about Khashoggi's killing, according to Business Insider, quoting from a copy of Woodward's book.
"I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop," Trump said.

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An opinion columnist for the Washington Post newspaper who was living in the US, Khashoggi had travelled to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a licence for his upcoming marriage to fiancee Hatice Cengiz. He was 59 at the time of his murder inside the consulate.

Hatice Cengiz told a Turkish court Khashoggi was lured to his death at the consulate with 'betrayal and deception' [Murad Sezer/Reuters]
The president told Woodward he did not believe that MBS had ordered Khashoggi's murder, although US and other foreign intelligence services have reportedly concluded that MBS directed the killing.



After Khashoggi's death set off outrage among US legislators from both parties, Trump bypassed Congress to sell roughly $8bn in precision-guided missiles and other high-tech weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Trump vetoed three resolutions passed by Congress rebuking him for the sale and blocked a War Powers Act resolution to end US military support for the UAE-and-Saudi-led war in Yemen.


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Will the truth about Jamal Khashoggi's murder ever be revealed?
Woodward's upcoming book, Rage, is to be released on September 15.
Woodward conducted 18 interviews with the president for the book. Audio recordings of Trump's remarks to Woodward released on Wednesday reignited a political controversy in the US about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Woodward wrote that Trump called him on January 22 shortly after attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. During the conversation, Woodward pressed the president about Khashoggi's gruesome murder, according to Business Insider.
Khashoggi was killed and dismembered by a team of Saudi agents while his fiancee waited for him outside the consulate building.
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A Saudi consulate worker in Istanbul told a Turkish court on July 3 he was asked to light an oven less than an hour after Khashoggi entered the building.
Zeki Demir, a local technician who worked for the consulate, gave evidence on the first day of the Turkish trial in absentia of 20 Saudi officials for Khashoggi's killing.
"There were five to six people there ... They asked me to light up the tandoor [oven]. There was an air of panic," said Demir.
On Monday, a Saudi Arabian court overturned five death sentences for the killing of Khashoggi.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA NEWS

 

[denel]

Murder is murder at the end of the day. Master Bone Sawer needs to answer for his crimes against humanity - Kasshogi was one but what about hundreds of thousands innocnent he and his croones henchmen so called UAE mercenaries. It is a pity Faisal is not alive, if this donkey had done this deed then, he would have paid the ultimate price.

Power corrupts and they get away with murder.

Dogs of nth degree all of them

 

[rambro]

Trade oil in USD + be in bed with the zionist and US regime will topple their rule - isnt that the agreement?

 

[khansaheeb]

Seems like US is turning on KSA:-

Incoming US intel chief vows to release report on who ordered Khashoggi murder

US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for the US’s top intelligence position pledges to release an unclassified report on who directed the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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Incoming US intel chief vows to release report on who ordered Khashoggi murder
Wednesday, 20 January 2021 7:39 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 20 January 2021 8:06 AM ]

Dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (pictured on the poster) was murdered by Saudi regime agents in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018. (File photo by AFP)
US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for the United States’ top intelligence position has pledged to release an unclassified report on who directed the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as per a congressional demand that the outgoing Donald Trump administration defied.
Biden’s nominee for director of national intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines, made the pledge during her confirmation hearing at the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday in response to a question by a ranking Senator on whether the DNI under her watch would release the Khashoggi report as mandated by Congress.
“Yes, senator, absolutely we’ll follow the law,” Haines said when pressed by Oregon’s Democratic Senator Ron Wyden whether she would “submit to the Congress the unclassified report required by the law.”
The Senator reminded Haines that the US lawmakers had passed a law requiring the DNI to submit to Congress the unclassified report on who was responsible for the brutal murder of Khashoggi inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul.
Wyden, who has been pushing for the release of the US intelligence community’s findings on Khashoggi’s killing, called on Haines to reverse the Trump administration’s “excessive secrecy and lawlessness.”
The incoming spy chief also responded affirmatively in written testimony — with a simple “Yes” — when asked a similar question about releasing the long-sought report.

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Later on Tuesday, Wyden hailed Haines’ commitment to releasing the report in a Twitter post, saying, “This is huge: Incoming DNI, Avril Haines, just committed to releasing an unclassified report on the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi.”
“For two years, I’ve been fighting for transparency and accountability for those responsible. We are closer than ever to getting #JusticeForJamal,” he added.

Khashoggi, a US resident and columnist for both the US-based Washington Post and the UK-based Middle East Eye, was killed by Saudi regime agents at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018.
With Democrats set to control the Senate by the end of the month with the swearing-in of two new members who won races in Georgia earlier this year, Haines and other Biden appointees are expected to easily win confirmation, barring the emergence of any major opposition.
The outgoing administration of Republican President Trump had been pushing to shield the despotic Saudi regime from criticism, citing the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom’s arms purchases from the US — worth hundreds of billions of dollars — as well as Washington’s geopolitical alliance with the Saudi rulers against Iran’s growing influence in the region.
In Congress, however, many lawmakers have been pushing to punish Riyadh over Khashoggi’s murder, as well as the regime’s brutal military aggression against neighboring Yemen and other human rights abuses.
In late 2019, US legislators included a provision in the Pentagon budget calling on the DNI to submit to Congress within 30 days an unclassified report outlining “the advance knowledge and role” of any Saudi official in “the directing, ordering, or tampering of evidence in the killing of Khashoggi.”
More than a year after the passage of the legislation, Congress has only received a single unclassified page from the DNI stating that it will not release the information publicly to protect “sources and methods.”
The Washington Post has reported that the CIA established in late 2018 that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the murder — an assessment shared by lawmakers who received classified intelligence briefings on the assassination.

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Meanwhile, the United Nations rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard, who also found in 2019 that the killing of Khashoggi was a state-sanctioned crime, has been calling on Washington to share what it knows about the murder case with the rest of the world.
“From an international legal standpoint and an international political standpoint, the public release of a document with the CIA assessment - a document that could be probed by others - will make it far more difficult for the rest of the world, particularly governments, to ignore Mohammed bin Salman’s personal involvement in the operation that led to the killing and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi,” Callamard said in an interview with the Middle East Eye last year.

 

[Chakar The Great]

The unholy nexus between Saudis and US is coming to an end.