President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House on November 18, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images

In 2018, the CIA under the first Trump administration concluded that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder of a US resident and journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.

The GOP-led Senate voted unanimously to condemn the crown prince. One Republican senator remarked at the time that if the matter went before a jury, the crown prince “would be convicted in 30 minutes.”

President Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he simply doesn’t care about Khashoggi’s killing all that much. But even by his standards, Trump’s comments alongside the crown prin

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