US President Donald Trump praised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s human rights record. During Bin Salman’s visit to Washington, DC, Trump said he was “very proud” of the Saudi prime minister’s accomplishments. “What he has done is extraordinary – in terms of human rights and other things,” Trump said in the Oval Office, which was attended by Bin Salman.
“It is an honor to be your friend and it is an honor that you are here,” Trump said. A journalist’s question about the murder case of a journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi Trump rebuffed harshly. “A lot of things happened”said the US President – “A lot of things happened”. Bin Salman knows nothing about the issue, Trump claims.
The visit of the de facto Saudi ruler sparked strong criticism from journalists and human rights activists – including because of the Khashoggi case. He was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, which affected Saudi relations with Saudi Arabia United States of America sometimes feel significantly burdened. Khashoggi, among other things, worked as a columnist at a well-known US newspaper Washington Post Work. His body was dismembered and has not been found to date. At the time, the US secret service saw the Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler as the mastermind behind the crime.
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