In the statement issued Tuesday, as CNN reported, Trump said that the U.S. will do nothing beyond already-imposed sanctions against 17 individual Saudis in response to the October 2 slaying of Khashoggi. The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded with “high confidence” that Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the murder of the journalist, per a separate CNN report. Khashoggi was an outspoken critic of bin Salman’s rule and often expressed his views in columns for the Washington Post.
But Trump has shrugged off the CIA findings, saying in a statement that, “it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!”
But Trump’s response, according to Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson — who won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2009 — shows only that bin Salman, and other foreign rulers, know that they can have their way with Trump by appealing to his vanity.
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