{"id":381133,"date":"2018-10-16T00:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-whitewashing-saudis-trump-hints-at-rogue-killers\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T00:40:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:40:30","slug":"presstv-whitewashing-saudis-trump-hints-at-rogue-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-whitewashing-saudis-trump-hints-at-rogue-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Whitewashing Saudis, Trump hints at \u2018rogue killers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>At a time that international pressure is being piled up on the Saudi government over the disappearance of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US President Donald Trump has made new remarks seen by analysts as an effort to whitewash Saudi rulers in the case so that Washington would not lose its hefty arms deal with the kingdom.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Speaking to reporters following a phone call with Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Salman on Monday, Trump suggested that \u201crogue killers\u201d may be responsible for whatever happened to the missing Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Noting that he did not \u201cwant to get\u201d into King Salman\u2019s mind, Trump said, \u201cit sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to try getting to the bottom of it very soon, but his was a flat denial,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Trump further noted that during the phone call, the Saudi King had \u201cfirmly denied any knowledge\u201d of the disappearance of the dissident&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/15\/577101\/Saudi-government-rogue-killers-Jamal-Khashoggi-arms-deal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time that international pressure is being piled up on the Saudi government over the disappearance of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US President Donald Trump has made new remarks seen by analysts as an effort to whitewash Saudi rulers in the case so that Washington would not lose its hefty arms deal with the [&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-381133","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\/381133","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=381133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}