{"id":380827,"date":"2018-10-13T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-will-punish-saudi-if-it-killed-journalist\/"},"modified":"2018-10-13T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T15:44:30","slug":"us-will-punish-saudi-if-it-killed-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-will-punish-saudi-if-it-killed-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"US will punish Saudi if it killed journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has vowed &#8220;severe punishment&#8221; if Saudi Arabia is proven to be behind the purported assassination of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the remarks in an interview with CBS&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; set to be aired on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/60Minutes\/status\/1051066759229427712\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;There will be severe punishment.&#8221; In his first 60 Minutes interview since taking office, President Trump tells Lesley Stahl that if Saudi Arabia is found to be responsible for journalist Jamal Khashoggi&#8217;s death, there will be consequences. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BRZfIPHbNY\">https:\/\/t.co\/BRZfIPHbNY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s6X98AylBR\">pic.twitter.com\/s6X98AylBR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/60Minutes\/status\/1051066759229427712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The US president, however, stopped well short of blaming the Saudi monarchy for the disappearance of Khashoggi, who is suspected of being killed during a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.<\/p>\n<p>He said that \u201cwe don\u2019t know yet\u201d if Khashoggi was murdered, but that the situation is \u201cbeing looked at very very strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/13\/576888\/Trump-vows-severe-punishment-if-Saudi-Arabia-killed-journalist\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has vowed &#8220;severe punishment&#8221; if Saudi Arabia is proven to be behind the purported assassination of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump made the remarks in an interview with CBS&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; set to be aired on Sunday. &#8220;There will be severe punishment.&#8221; In his first 60 Minutes interview since taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}