In 2018, the CIA under the first Donald Trump administration concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) personally ordered the gruesome murder of US resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Seven years later, Trump, sitting beside the Crown Prince , made it clear in certain terms that he doesn't care about Khashoggi's killing all that much, just saying that such "things happen".

As if it were not enough, Trump then went on to offer a mind-boggling defence of the Saudi Crown Prince, whose White House visit had all the trappings of a state visit, but it was not. In fact, this was MBS's first visit to the US after Khashoggi's assassination, which rocked the US-Saudi relationship.

TRUMP ON KHASHOGGI MURDER

However, the Trump of 2017 is different from the Trump of 2025. If

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