President Donald Trump insisted that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “knew nothing” about the killing of Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi, despite U.S. intelligence agencies concluding otherwise.

The CIA assessment released in 2021 found that Saudi agents in Istanbul acted on bin Salman’s order when they killed and dismembered Khashoggi in 2018 , who had written critically of the Saudi royal family.

Asked about those findings in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump downplayed the journalist's killing, saying “things happen” and claiming bin Salman “knew nothing about it.”

The comments came as the Crown Prince began an elaborate two-day visit organized by Trump to showcase Saudi Arabia's importance to the U.S., during which the President hopes to announce hundreds

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