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   The de facto Saudi ruler was branded an outcast after the 2018 killing of   
   Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are   
   approaching a high point.   
      
   President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin   
   Salman over the killing of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi,   
   saying “things happen” and that he did not hold the Saudi leader   
   responsible for   
   the 2018 murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.   
      
   By Susannah George, Michael Birnbaum and Natalie Allison   
      
   Updated November 18, 2025 at 12:59 p.m. EST   
      
   President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin   
   Salman over the killing of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi,   
   saying “things happen” and that he did not hold the Saudi leader   
   responsible for   
   the 2018 murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.   
      
   Trump’s dismissive language offered the highest-level confirmation yet that   
   Mohammed will face few consequences for the killing, as the crown prince makes   
   his first visit to Washington since Khashoggi was dismembered in a Saudi   
   consulate in Turkey.   
      
   “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about.   
   Whether   
   you like him or didn’t like him, things happen, but [Mohammed] knew nothing   
   about it,” Trump said in response to a question. “And we can leave it at   
   that.   
   You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.”   
      
   Mohammed arrived to a grand welcome from Trump at the White House on Tuesday,   
   greeted at the South Portico with an honor guard of black horses and herald   
   trumpeters, a remarkable turnaround for the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia who   
   had been branded a pariah in 2018 after the CIA concluded that he had approved   
   the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/18/saudi-prince-tru   
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   Trump is subhuman fascist filth.   
      
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