"The widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi called Friday for the release of the transcript of a 2019 phone call that President Donald Trump had with Mohammed bin Salman, joining Democratic lawmakers who are raising questions about whether Trump personally benefitted from his embrace of the Saudi crown prince. Hanan Elatr Khashoggi appeared on Capitol Hill on Friday morning on the heels of Trump's dismissal of U.S. intelligence findings that Prince Mohammed most likely had culpability in the October 2018 slaying of her husband."
"The demand in Congress for the Trump administration to release the call transcripts is being led Rep. Eugene Vindman, a freshman Democrat from Virginia who was deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council during Trump's first term. Vindman, who has reviewed the transcript of the phone call with Prince Mohammed, declined to go into specifics of the classified document Friday, but said it used the terminology of quid pro quo, the ensuing benefits that the president reaped."
Hanan Elatr Khashoggi called for release of the 2019 phone call transcript between President Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman. The call request follows Trump's dismissal of U.S. intelligence that linked Prince Mohammed to Jamal Khashoggi's October 2018 killing. The Saudi consulate killing involved Saudi intelligence officials and a forensic doctor who killed and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi. Rep. Eugene Vindman has led congressional demands for the transcript and said the document used the terminology of quid pro quo. Democratic lawmakers pointed to Trump family business ties to Saudi Arabia and potential benefits tied to the prince's involvement.
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