President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is denying knowledge of what happened to a Saudi journalist who went missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, saying answers will be coming “shortly.”
Trump tweeted Tuesday after a phone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the fate of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey Oct. 2. Khashoggi had written columns for the Washington Post that were critical of the crown prince.
Trump said the heir to the Saudi throne “totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate.”
He adds that the crown prince “told me that he has already started, and will rapidly expand, a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly.”
A high-level Turkish official told the Associated Press on Tuesday that police searching the Saudi consulate found evidence that Khashoggi was killed there.
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