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News World Americas US politics Trump rips reporter who asks Saudi prince about 9/11 role and Khashoggi murder: ‘Lot of people didn’t like that gentleman’ President and Crown Prince were both pressed by ABC’s Mary Bruce on 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents and protests of 9/11 victim families

Andrew Feinberg in Washington, D.C. Tuesday 18 November 2025 22:46 GMT 71 Comments

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Donald Trump welcomed Mohammed bin Salman to the White House on Tuesday for the Saudi Crown Prince’s first visit to Washington since the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The president berated a reporter who asked about the killing.

Trump lost his temper and began yelling at ABC News reporter Mary Bruce after she raised the issue of Saudi Arabia’s role in the September 11 terror attacks and also asked the Crown Prince about the 2018 murder of the Washington Post columnist by Saudi agents acting on his orders.

As Bruce pressed him on whether his family should be doing business in the oil-rich kingdom during his presidency and asked the Saudi leader on why Americans should trust him given his role in Khashoggi’s murder, Trump angrily interrupted her and asked her to identify her employer. After she said she worked for ABC News, he shouted at her: “Fake News. ABC, fake news, one of the worst, one of the worst in the business.”

He angrily denied having anything to do with his eponymous real estate and hotel company’s multiple partnerships with Saudi developers and claimed his sons, who currently run the company, have “done very little with Saudi Arabia”.

Trump also attempted to dismiss the question about the killing of Khashoggi — a US permanent resident at the time of his murder — by calling the slain journalist “extremely controversial.”

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Promoted stories Play Games Play Games by TaboolaSponsored Links The Crown Prince, who is commonly known by his initials MBS, jumped in at that point and calmly responded to the ABC News journalist’s question by stating that he felt “painful” about the effect of the September 11 attacks on the families of those who were killed but suggested that it was necessary to “focus on reality.”

He then claimed that al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi construction heir, had “used Saudi people” to commit the terror attacks with the aim of destroying U.S.-Saudi relations.

Prince Mohammed then addressed the matter of the Washington Post journalist Khashoggi whose 2018 abduction and murder the CIA determined he had approved, by claiming it had also been “really painful” to hear of “anyone ... losing his life ... for no real purpose or not in a legal way.”

“And it's been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation, etc, in Saudi Arabia, and we've improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that, and it's painful and it's a huge mistake, and we are doing our best that this doesn't happen again,” he said.

I saw no denial there, so there ya go

I think that, with that in mind, the entire world got much more self centered, which is the reason there is so little protest against such violations in the US, and, why hackers these days are much more busy with self image and money

Anyone with an ounce of security knowledge and understanding

Besides the entire "eeeeekkk a woman in the white house!!" Thing, can we please not have Michelle Obama there? I don't want families who time after time contro the government, fuck that.

If someone omin a family becomes president it should automatically rule out any other family member from even running for a presidency

Inconsistent? I thought he was pretty consistent, really.

And then re-hire him again a few days later and act as if one of it was your idea?

Yeah, why not do that again?

Has Monica made any comments regarding this? I recall seeing her in interviews and she seemed chill, she should have to be able to produce a few zingers for trump that will hurt

Sooooo that gives us how long, exactly, until we dive nose first into a huge world wide recession?

Remove the rich

Nobody should be allowed to be a billionaire, put max caps on netwoths. Anything over 10-20 million should go 100% to tax

Some Indian American conservatives seem shocked that segments of the political right are now taking aim at them.

But but but, we are different brown people,we are not those dirty Latinos,we are clean Indians!

No no no, not THOSE indians, those aren't even calle... Ok, never mind, we are the GOOD brown people, you have to like us!

Am I close? Fucking leopards again!

This comment just made me shudder, it sounds too real

There ya go, it sounded so familiar