.jamescdownie: Donald Trump never gave Mohammed bin Salman what President Biden just shockingly allowed.
President Joe Biden bumps fists with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Al-Salam Palace in the Red Sea port of Jeddah on July 15, 2022., MSNBC Opinion ColumnistIt was Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, and I was an editor at The Washington Post. For several days, we had been waiting for news about our columnist, a U.S. resident and prominent critic of the Saudi government who had gone missing earlier in the week after entering the country's consulate in Turkey.
I believed — foolishly — that the Saudi state had"merely" kidnapped him to imprison and silence him. At the time, we didn't know that the men who met Khashoggi when he entered the consulateLast week, I was reminded of the shock and pain I felt learning of Khashoggi's death that Saturday four years ago. On Thursday, President Joe Biden's administration advised a judge tofrom a lawsuit over his role in Khashoggi’s assassination.
Soon after Khashoggi's death, reports emerged that the crown prince had ordered the assassination — a conclusion later endorsed by . Then-President Donald Trump unsurprisingly downplayed the accusations against his authoritarian friend, and during his administration there was little hope that there would be justice for Khashoggi's family.
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