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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 01:30 PM Jun 2019

Dismisses UN request for FBI to investigate Khashoggi's murder [View all]

Jon Swaine
Sun 23 Jun 2019 12.57 EDT

... A report on Khashoggi’s assassination published last week by the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings said the US should open an FBI inquiry and “pursue criminal prosecutions within the United States, as appropriate” ...

Asked if he would allow the FBI to investigate, Trump said: “I think it’s been heavily investigated.”

Asked who had investigated, the president replied: “By everybody. I mean … I’ve seen so many different reports” ...

“I’m not like a fool that says, ‘We don’t want to do business with them,’” Trump said. “And by the way, if they don’t do business with us, you know what they do? They’ll do business with the Russians or with the Chinese ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/23/jamal-khashoggi-trump-un-request-fbi-investigation

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