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President Trump backed Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the aftermath of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder to distract reporters from covering Ivanka Trump’s use of a private email server, a new book claims.
Early copies of John Bolton’s ‘The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,’ were obtained Wednesday by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In the book, Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser, suggested that some of the president’s more erratic behavior was designed to serve as a diversion.
President Trump sent out a statement backing Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the aftermath of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder to distract reporters from covering Ivanka Trump’s use of private email, John Bolton’s new book claims
On November 20, 2018, Trump wrote that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) ‘could very well … had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!’ referring to Jamal Khashoggi’s (right) murder, which the CIA said the Crown Prince ordered
John Bolton, the former national security adviser, wrote in his new book that the statement was by design, as President Trump (left) wanted to distract journalists from writing about Ivanka Trump (right) using private email with government officials
Bolton recalled the November 2018 controversy over Khashoggi’s death. Khashoggi was a Washington Post op-ed writer and a resident of the U.S. He also was a critic of the Saudi regime. He went missing after walking into the Saudi consulate in Turkey on October 2.
A month later, the CIA determined that the Crown Prince, who has a close relationship with White House adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, had given the order for Khashoggi’s assassination. On November 20, the president read an exclamation-mark-filled statement essentially letting the Crown Prince off the hook.
‘Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!’ Trump had said.
