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US President Donald Trump has defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Yesterday a report was published in Business Insider about Bob Woodward’s new book. Business Insider has received a copy of Woodward’s book.
Trump told journalist Bob Woodward about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, I was able to save him (the Saudi prince) from the hands of Congress. I was able to stop them. ‘
President Trump told Woodward that he did not believe he had ordered the assassination of Saudi Crown Prince Khashoggi. However, the intelligence agencies of several countries, including the United States, have declared that they will not stand in the by-elections.
In the wake of Khashoggi’s assassination, Trump sidelined Congress and approved the sale of nearly আট 800 billion in ballistic missiles and other sophisticated weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Although Congress passed three resolutions to stop the sale of those weapons, it used its veto power over them.
President Trump has blocked a “War Power Act resolution” to cut off US military aid to the UAE-led war in Yemen.
Bob Woodward’s new book ‘Raise’ will be published on September 15. Woodward interviewed 17 of President Trump for the book.
An audio recording of some of Trump’s comments was released on Wednesday, prompting a renewed debate on American policy.
Bob Woodward writes in his book that he was convened by President Trump on January 22, 2019, just days after returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. During the meeting, Woodward lobbied the president about Khashoggi’s brutal assassination.
Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist, disappeared in October 2016 after visiting the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. The well-known journalist was known for his harsh criticism of the rulers of the Saudi dynasty.
Turkish authorities say police believe Khashoggi, a 59-year-old journalist, was strangled to death and his body burned to the ground.
On the first day of the trial, Jackie Demi, a technician at the Saudi embassy in Turkey, told the court that Khashoggi had been ordered to light an oven less than an hour after he entered the building where he was killed.
‘There were five or six people … they told me to turn on the oven. Panic was in the air, ” he said.
The Khashoggi’s murder trial is ongoing in a Turkish court in the absence of 20 defendants and Saudi officials.
In December, five people were sentenced to death and three to life imprisonment for the killings, but on September 8, a Saudi court overturned the death sentences of five people for Khashoggi’s murder.
