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    News World Americas US politics Trump rips reporter who asks Saudi prince about 9/11 role and Khashoggi murder: ‘Lot of people didn’t like that gentleman’ President and Crown Prince were both pressed by ABC’s Mary Bruce on 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents and protests of 9/11 victim families

    Andrew Feinberg in Washington, D.C. Tuesday 18 November 2025 22:46 GMT 71 Comments

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    Donald Trump welcomed Mohammed bin Salman to the White House on Tuesday for the Saudi Crown Prince’s first visit to Washington since the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The president berated a reporter who asked about the killing.

    Trump lost his temper and began yelling at ABC News reporter Mary Bruce after she raised the issue of Saudi Arabia’s role in the September 11 terror attacks and also asked the Crown Prince about the 2018 murder of the Washington Post columnist by Saudi agents acting on his orders.

    As Bruce pressed him on whether his family should be doing business in the oil-rich kingdom during his presidency and asked the Saudi leader on why Americans should trust him given his role in Khashoggi’s murder, Trump angrily interrupted her and asked her to identify her employer. After she said she worked for ABC News, he shouted at her: “Fake News. ABC, fake news, one of the worst, one of the worst in the business.”

    He angrily denied having anything to do with his eponymous real estate and hotel company’s multiple partnerships with Saudi developers and claimed his sons, who currently run the company, have “done very little with Saudi Arabia”.

    Trump also attempted to dismiss the question about the killing of Khashoggi — a US permanent resident at the time of his murder — by calling the slain journalist “extremely controversial.”

    RECOMMENDED Newsom trolls Trump over Epstein picture and drags Melania into the discussion Trump tells a female reporter to be ‘quiet piggy’ while on AF1 It’s Time to Spin! Spin the Wheel | Sponsored Boost Your Balance – 150 Free Spins Inside Jackpotcity | Sponsored Powered by Taboola Donald Trump with Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on Tuesday Donald Trump with Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on Tuesday (Reuters) “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, but he knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that,” he said before chiding Bruce for “embarrassing” the Saudi leader.

    Promoted stories Play Games Play Games by TaboolaSponsored Links The Crown Prince, who is commonly known by his initials MBS, jumped in at that point and calmly responded to the ABC News journalist’s question by stating that he felt “painful” about the effect of the September 11 attacks on the families of those who were killed but suggested that it was necessary to “focus on reality.”

    He then claimed that al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi construction heir, had “used Saudi people” to commit the terror attacks with the aim of destroying U.S.-Saudi relations.

    Prince Mohammed then addressed the matter of the Washington Post journalist Khashoggi whose 2018 abduction and murder the CIA determined he had approved, by claiming it had also been “really painful” to hear of “anyone … losing his life … for no real purpose or not in a legal way.”

    “And it’s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation, etc, in Saudi Arabia, and we’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that, and it’s painful and it’s a huge mistake, and we are doing our best that this doesn’t happen again,” he said.

    I saw no denial there, so there ya go









  • And again < 100.000 dollars in equipment causing billion(s) of dollars in damages

    Couple all those monitary losses with the loss of over a million able bodies men, who won’t be helping the economy anymore, the near world wide sanctions, the destruction of their oil storages and refineries and one does wonder…

    How long Russia will be able to keep it up?

    How much longer untill Russia has a coup d’etat / revolution and publicly hangs Putin?

    How many new countries will Russia break into?

    For how many decades all these counties will be fucked because Putin fucked Russia so so bad…