Pressure is mounting on the administration of US President Donald Trump over its stance on the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.
Saudi Arabia’s official explanation of the death, which Trump called “credible,” has failed to satisfy Republicans and Democrats in US Congress.
“Saudi Arabia’s changing stories on Khashoggi’s murder is getting old,” said Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Twitter Saturday, calling the Saudi account that Khashoggi was killed in a fistfight “bizarre.”
The US president, meanwhile, was trying to walk a fine line by deflecting questions on the royal family’s involvement and flip-flopping on the issue when possible not to damage close ties with the country’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud.
“I’m not satisfied until we…