US President Donald Trump’s slow response to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder is in line with his views of a journalist’s body slamming, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.
Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday after Trump hailed a Republican Congressman for assaulting a journalist last year, referring to him as “my guy.”
At a rally in Missoula on Thursday night, Trump praised Montana congressman Greg Gianforte, who assaulted a reporter for British daily The Guardian, Ben Jacobs, back in 2017 during his elections campaign.
Meanwhile, Trump said Friday that he believes Saudi Arabia’s explanation for the death of Khashoggi and called the arrest of 18 Saudis “a good first step.”
The Saudi government announced on Friday that Khashoggi died after a fistfight at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Khashoggi, who was also a US…