{"id":41138,"date":"2018-10-15T16:33:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/10\/15\/trump-says-rogue-killers-could-be-behind-missing-saudi-journalist-sends-pompeo-to-riyadh\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:25:31","slug":"trump-says-rogue-killers-could-be-behind-missing-saudi-journalist-sends-pompeo-to-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2018\/10\/15\/trump-says-rogue-killers-could-be-behind-missing-saudi-journalist-sends-pompeo-to-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says \u2018rogue killers\u2019 could be behind missing Saudi journalist; sends Pompeo to Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 After defending U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the weekend, President Donald Trump on Monday touted the denials of the Saudi royal family in disappearance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/10\/10\/us-senators-order-magnitsky-probe-as-riyadhs-capitol-hill-clout-plummets\/\" target=_blank>journalist Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> and suggested \u201crogue killers\u201d could be responsible, rather than the Saudi government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a call Monday morning between Trump and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the president said he was sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2018\/09\/20\/report-us-bomb-sales-factored-in-us-aid-to-saudis-in-yemen\/\" target=_blank>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo<\/a> to Saudi Arabia \u201cimmediately,\u201d and possibly Turkey, \u201cto get to the bottom of\u201d the Khashoggi matter. Trump said it appeared both the king and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman \u201chad no knowledge,\u201d based on the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are going to leave nothing uncovered. With that being said, the king firmly denies any knowledge of it,\u201d Trump told reporters outside the White House. \u201cHe didn\u2019t really know, maybe \u2014 I don\u2019t want to get into his mind \u2014 but it sounded to me like maybe it could have been rogue killers, who knows? We\u2019re going to try get to the bottom of it very soon, but his was a flat denial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement came as international concern grew over the writer who vanished on a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul over a week ago. American lawmakers have threatened punitive action against the Saudis, and Germany, France and Britain jointly called for a \u201ccredible investigation\u201d into Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkish officials have said they fear a Saudi hit team killed and dismembered Khashoggi, who wrote critically of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The kingdom has called such allegations \u201cbaseless\u201d but has not offered any evidence Khashoggi ever left the consulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vt.-I, on Monday, announced he would reintroduce a resolution to end U.S. military aid to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, citing Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance \u201cand likely assassination.\u201d That support includes aerial refueling of coalition aircraft and arms sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanders said the resolution, when Congress returns from recess next month, would \u201cgive the Senate another opportunity to end U.S. support for this catastrophe, to reassert congressional authority over matters of war, and to show the Saudi government that they do not have a blank check from the United States to continue human rights violations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, Sanders led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in a resolution which invoked the 1973 War Powers Act to compel the Trump administration to drop U.S. support. The resolution was tabled, 55-44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Citing the $110 billion worth of weapons the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2017\/06\/08\/revealed-trump-s-110-billion-weapons-list-for-the-saudis\/\" target=\"_blank\">pledged<\/a> to sell Riyadh over the next decade, Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/10\/11\/trump-doubles-down-hes-not-stopping-saudi-arms-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly<\/a> said that halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia is off the table. He\u2019s argued Riyadh could turn to Russia, China and other foreign suppliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with \u201c60 Minutes,&#8221; Trump said that \u201cwe would be very upset and angry\u201d if the crown prince were to have ordered Khashoggi\u2019s murder, and he vowed \u201csevere punishment.\u201d He restated his opposition to halting U.S.-Saudi arms deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI tell you what I don\u2019t want to do. Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, all these \u2014 I don\u2019t want to hurt jobs,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. lawmakers have variously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/10\/10\/us-senators-order-magnitsky-probe-as-riyadhs-capitol-hill-clout-plummets\/\" target=_blank>called on the administration to investigate under the 2016 Global Magnitsky Act<\/a> \u2014 which could trigger sanctions \u2014 to drop U.S. military support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen and halt U.S. arms sales to Riyadh, which represents a major market for U.S. defense firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, has for months blocked the sale of tens of thousands of Raytheon-made precision-guided munitions kits, citing concerns over civilian casualties caused by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate\u2019s No. 2 Democrat, Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, said on social media Monday afternoon: \u201cSince Saudi arms are being used to ravage Yemen and they are apparently complicit in the disappearance of Mr. Khashoggi, I cannot support President Trump\u2019s proposed arms sale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Durbin, who is also the senior Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, told CNN earlier in the day: \u201cWe ought to get out of the war in Yemen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States government is backing and helping the Saudis in the war in Yemen that is killing millions of people by warfare and famine,\u201d Durbin said. \u201cWe ought to be out of that tomorrow. We ought to make sure that we know the export of this Wahabi extremism that they&#8217;ve been engaged in for decades is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Durbin stopped short of saying the U.S. ought to stop arms sales to Riyadh, but he was willing to accept if Riyadh halted them in retaliation \u2014 so long as the U.S. sends a strong signal that Saudi Arabia\u2019s alleged involvement in Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance would be unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you\u2019re not going to stop the arms sales, what will you do to the Saudis so that they understand tomorrow that what they\u2019ve done is absolutely unacceptable?\u201d Durbin said. \u201cIf it is just a strong letter in some diplomatic channel, absolutely unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After defending U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the weekend, President Donald Trump on Monday touted the denials of the Saudi royal family in disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":83083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"8":{"categories":["leadership","management","home","daily-brief","newsletters"],"primary_category":"leadership"}}},"categories":[8,160,11,47,36,48],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3446],"class_list":["post-41138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-daily-news-roundup","category-global","category-mideast-africa","category-newsletters","category-the-americas"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"OZFACPPXF5CPTLQH35AHQ6ZPJE","arc_canonical_url":"\/congress\/2018\/10\/15\/trump-says-rogue-killers-could-be-behind-missing-saudi-journalist-sends-pompeo-to-riyadh\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump says \u2018rogue killers\u2019 could be behind missing Saudi journalist; 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