‘He didn’t know anything’, says Trump about Saudi prince accused by the US of having a journalist killed

Trump with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Reuters The President of the United States, Donald Trump, came to the defense this Tuesday (18) of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman. He stated that the prince “knew nothing” about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, killed inside the Saudi consulate in Türkiye in 2018. Recall the case below. ✅ Follow the g1 international news channel on WhatsApp This is bin Salman’s first visit to the USA since the murder of Khashoggi, opponent of the Saudi regime and columnist for the newspaper “The Washington Post”. The case shook diplomatic relations between the two countries. A report from the CIA, the US intelligence agency, named bin Salman as the mastermind of the crime. The file was released in 2021. “He didn’t know anything about it,” Trump said during a meeting with the prince at the White House. The president responded to a question asked by a reporter from the American network ABC about the Khashoggi case. Trump interrupted the journalist and did not allow bin Salman to respond. “You shouldn’t embarrass our guest with a question like that,” said the American. The reporter was prevented from asking further questions. “ABC’s license should be revoked,” Trump added. See the videos that are trending on g1 At the press conference held in the Oval Office, Trump announced that Saudi Arabia intends to invest US$600 billion in the United States. The president also confirmed an agreement for the sale of F-35 fighter jets, the most modern in the world. The announcement provoked apprehension within the American government itself, due to fears that the strengthening of Saudi military power could destabilize Israel, the USA’s main ally in the Middle East. Before the war in the Gaza Strip, Saudi Arabia and Israel had been rehearsing a US-mediated rapprochement. Talks were interrupted with the start of the conflict. The Saudi government claims that it will only discuss the normalization of relations again after the creation of a Palestinian State — a proposal that Trump opposes. Even so, the president should try to make further progress in this regard this Tuesday. Later this Tuesday, First Lady Melania Trump will host a dinner in honor of the prince. Isolated from the West since Khashoggi’s murder, bin Salman is trying to reposition himself as a global leader and modernizer of the kingdom, betting on the diversification of the economy with investments in mining, technology and tourism, in addition to oil. MORE Post, was killed in 2018 inside the Saudi consulate in Ankara, Turkey. He had gone there to get a certificate needed to marry his Turkish fiancée. Although cameras recorded the journalist’s entry, he never left the consulate. Later, investigations discovered that Khashoggi was dismembered and strangled to death inside. The CIA concluded that Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder, but neither he nor his advisors were held accountable. After denying involvement, the Saudi government admitted that “uncontrolled” agents acted on their own. At the end of an opaque process, five people were sentenced to death and another three to prison terms. Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist critical of the Saudi Arabian government, disappeared after entering his country’s consulate in Istanbul Mohammed al-Shaikh/AFP VIDEOS: most watched on g1

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