"The Washington Post's editorial board delivered a blistering rebuke to President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he dismissed the 2018 murder of its journalist Jamal Khashoggi with the phrase things happen while hosting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. Trump, meeting the crown prince for the first time since returning to office, was asked about Khashoggi, the Post's contributing columnist who was assassinated and dismembered with a buzz saw inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul."
"The president replied: A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. He also insisted the crown prince knew nothing about it. The Post said the president's remarks amounted to a distortion that dishonor[s] Khashoggi's legacy, contrasting Trump's comments with the CIA's long-standing conclusion, made during Trump's first term, that bin Salman ordered the killing."
"Mohammed, standing beside Trump, called the murder a huge mistake and said Saudi officials have improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that. The newspaper's editors, however, rejected his remarks as offensive and insufficient, yet somehow better than Trump's response. President Donald Trump's performance at the White House Tuesday was something else entirely: weak, crass and of no strategic benefit to America, they wrote."
President Donald Trump met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House and dismissed the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with the remark 'things happen.' Khashoggi was assassinated and dismembered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul after criticizing Saudi repression and aggression. The CIA concluded that bin Salman ordered the killing. Mohammed called the murder a 'huge mistake' and said Saudi officials had improved systems to prevent recurrence. Observers condemned Trump's remarks as weak, crass and dishonoring Khashoggi's legacy, warned that his posture would embolden authoritarian leaders, and criticized his attack on an ABC reporter.
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