“Donald Trump may have cleared the high bar of uttering the most appalling remark of his presidency,” said Fred Kaplan on Slate . “Things happen,” he declared last week in response to a question about the murder of the US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

This while sitting in the Oval Office next to the man whom the CIA believes ordered that killing, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman . MbS, as he’s called, at least sought to “convey the impression that he knew the murder was contemptible”, describing it in the press conference as a “huge mistake”.

Not so Trump . He disparaged the dead Washington Post journalist – “a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman” – and exonerated MbS: “He knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that.”

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