Trump 'stands with' Saudi Arabia and defends crown prince over Khashoggi
 

President issues extraordinary statement of support and repeats Saudi claim that murdered journalist was ‘enemy of the state’

Donald Trump has expressed his unstinting support for Saudi Arabia and questioned whether Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince, knew about the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

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