Jamal Khashoggi killing: The State Department called the administration’s call to shield the Saudi crown prince from US courts in Khashoggi’s killing “purely a legal determination.”
Fifty-nine-year-old Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist who lived in the US as a legal permanent resident and wrote for the Washington Post, was critical of the prince's policies and was killed in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in the Turkish city on October 2, 2018.
In an interview, Trump made clear that the audio recording, supplied by the Turkish government, would not affect his response to the Oct. 2 killing of Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post who had been critical of the Saudi royal family.
In an interaction with reporters in California on Saturday, Trump said that he spoke with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gina Haspel, who has been studying this case very closely.
Trump told reporters before he left the White House for California that, when it came to the crown prince, “as of this moment we were told that he did not play a role. We’re going to have to find out what they have to say.”
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist was killed last month at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
As a result, all of these individuals' assets within the US jurisdiction are blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.
A critic of the Saudi royal family, Khashoggi had been living in exile in the United States.
Once an insider in Saudi royal circles, Khashoggi fell out of favour with the monarchy after Mohammed bin Salman was named heir to the throne last year.
Khashoggi served as former newspaper editor in Saudi Arabia and adviser to its former head of intelligence.
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