The US intelligence report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi says that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman approved the operation to capture or kill the Saudi journalist.
edition.cnn.com
The US intelligence report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi says that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman approved the operation to capture or kill the Saudi journalist...
... Shortly after Khashoggi's October 2018 death, the CIA assessed with high confidence that the crown prince had personally ordered the killing.
But during the Trump administration, US intelligence officials never spoke publicly or presented evidence about the murder at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, and at the time, Trump staunchly defended the country's young, de facto ruler, who is often referred to as MBS.
Trump told biographer Bob Woodward of the crown prince, "I saved his ass." Woodward wrote in his book "Rage" that in January 2020, Trump also boasted that "I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop."