WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump heaped scorn on ally Saudi Arabia today, calling the Oct. 2 plot that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul “very bad” and attempts for weeks afterward to dissemble about it “the worst cover-up ever.”
“They had a very bad original concept, it was carried out poorly and the cover-up was the worst in the history of cover-ups,” an exasperated Trump told the White House press pool in the Oval Office today. “They had the worst cover-up ever.”