The Insider reports:
President Donald Trump bragged to the veteran journalist Bob Woodward that he protected Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) from congressional scrutiny after the brutal assassination of American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Woodward wrote that Trump called him on January 22 shortly after attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. During the conversation, Woodward pressed the president about Khashoggi’s gruesome murder
“I saved his ass,” Trump said in 2018, amid the US outcry following Khashoggi’s murder, according to the book. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.”
?BREAKING: Trump bragged that he protected Saudi Arabia's Mohammed “Bone Saw” bin Salman from congressional scrutiny after the assassination of Jamal #Khashoggi.
"I saved his ass. I was able to get Congress to leave him alone."#BoneSaw https://t.co/p4EsMW6w7G
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) September 10, 2020
My latest.
Trump let Saudi Arabia's regime get away with Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
For the sake of journalists and human rights defenders everywhere, a Biden administration would need to hold MBS accountable. https://t.co/YGsYirjMaa
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 10, 2020