Saudi Arabia will face “severe punishment” if it ordered the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US President Donald Trump has warned.
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“There’s a lot at stake, and maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. There’s something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case…we’re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment,” Trump said during an interview with the CBS program 60 Minutes on Friday.
However, Trump stressed that even if the journalist was killed at the hands of Riyadh, he still wouldn’t end the arms deal between the two countries.
“They are ordering military equipment; everybody in the world wanted that order. Russia wanted it, China wanted it, we wanted it – we got it. And we got all of it, every bit of it.”
He went on to say that he doesn’t want to “lose an order” or hurt jobs, and that there are “other ways of punishing” Riyadh if needed.
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