{"id":381084,"date":"2018-10-15T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rogue-killers-might-have-killed-saudi-journalist\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:32:30","slug":"rogue-killers-might-have-killed-saudi-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rogue-killers-might-have-killed-saudi-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rogue killers&#8217; might have killed Saudi journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.10\/thumbnail\/5bc49f73dda4c84f7c8b45e5.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        US President Donald Trump said he believes it is possible that \u201crogue killers\u201d could be responsible for the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaking to journalists outside the White House on Monday about Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance, Trump said: <em>\u201cIt sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/441288-trump-pompeo-saudi-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE:\u00a0Trump sending Mike Pompeo to meet Saudi King \u2018immediately\u2019 over missing journalist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Offering the rogue killer theory, Trump cited King Salman of Saudi Arabia\u2019s <em>\u201cfirm\u201d<\/em> denial that Riyadh had anything to do with the situation \u2014 despite the fact that Turkey claims to possess evidence proving the journalist was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[King Salman\u2019s] denial to me could not have been stronger,\u201d<\/em> Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump today on Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance \u2014 \u201cIt sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iz9M586pDa\">pic.twitter.com\/iz9M586pDa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jiveDurkey\/status\/1051831807883259905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asked by journalists whether he believes King Salman&#8217;s denial, Trump said all he could do was \u201c<em>report what [the king] told me &#8211; and he told me in a very firm way that they had no knowledge of it. He said it very strongly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Trump said that he was sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Riyadh and <em>\u201cother places if necessary\u201d<\/em> to figure out what has happened to Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you like this story, share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/441292-rogue-killers-saudi-journalist\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said he believes it is possible that \u201crogue killers\u201d could be responsible for the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Speaking to journalists outside the White House on Monday about Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance, Trump said: \u201cIt sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?\u201d READ MORE:\u00a0Trump sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381084","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=381084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}