Commentary: Trump and money are shielding Saudi Arabia from accountability for Khashoggi's killing
by Ben Freeman And William D. Hartung, Los Angeles Times
Oct 03, 2019
3 minutes
Following the brutal killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, one year ago, the Saudi government became something of a toxic commodity in American politics. Several high-profile lobbying and public relations firms dropped the Saudis as a client. Think tanks, including the Brookings Institution, severed ties with the Saudi government. Businesses pulled out of a major conference in Riyadh shortly after Khashoggi's death.
As the U.S. intelligence community and the United Nations were determining that Saudi Arabia was culpable in the
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