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    Trump is reluctant to accept US intelligence reportedly linking Saudi crown prince to journalist's killing

    by Laura King, Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, under increasing pressure from lawmakers to punish Saudi Arabia in the killing of prominent journalist-critic Jamal Khashoggi, sided Sunday with the kingdom's de facto ruler, distancing himself from reported U.S. intelligence assessments that the crown prince had ordered the assassination.

    In an interview aired on "Fox News Sunday," Trump also said he had decided to skip listening to a "very vicious and terrible" audio recording of the Oct. 2 slaying of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

    As ever more grisly details about the writer's death have emerged, Trump has by turns professed incuriosity and squeamishness, telling Fox interviewer Chris Wallace there was "no reason"

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