Trump had his first face-to-face sit-down with Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman since the US intelligence community concluded that the crown prince directed the killing of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.Trump, who called bin Salman his "friend", has long sought to minimise the crown prince's role in the murder and has been reluctan...
Trump had his first face-to-face sit-down with Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman since the US intelligence community concluded that the crown prince directed the killing of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump, who called bin Salman his "friend", has long sought to minimise the crown prince's role in the murder and has been reluctant to criticise the killing of the critic at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year.
Trump views the kingdom as the lynchpin of his Middle East strategy to counter Iran. At the news conference on Saturday, Trump was asked by a reporter if he agreed it was "despicable" for a government to kill a journalist.
Trump replied: "Yes, I do. I think it's horrible. Or anybody else, by the way. And if you look at Saudi Arabia, you see what's happening, thirteen people, or so, have been prosecuted. Others are being prosecuted. They've taken it very, very seriously. And they will continue to."
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