{"id":382888,"date":"2018-10-29T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-wont-sacrifice-business-ties-with-saudis\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T22:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:51:32","slug":"presstv-trump-wont-sacrifice-business-ties-with-saudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-wont-sacrifice-business-ties-with-saudis\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Trump won\u2019t sacrifice business ties with Saudis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s personal business ties with Saudi Arabia and his connections to the Saudi royal family will prevent Trump from punishing Riyadh for murdering Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an investigative journalist in Washington says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is not really going to take any action against the Saudis,\u201d said Wayne Madsen, an author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis son-in-law Jared Kushner has a financial arrangement with the Saudis; the Saudis sell his daughter Ivanka\u2019s goods in Saudi Arabian shopping centers,\u201d Madsen said during a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The murder of\u00a0Khashoggi, who escaped to the US last year and worked as a Washington Post columnist, has escalated into a crisis for the world\u2019s top oil exporter as Saudi Arabia\u2019s allies have reacted with outrage.<\/p>\n<p>US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday in Bahrain that the killing of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/29\/578477\/US-Trump-Saudi-Khashoggi-Wayne-Madsen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s personal business ties with Saudi Arabia and his connections to the Saudi royal family will prevent Trump from punishing Riyadh for murdering Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an investigative journalist in Washington says. \u201cTrump is not really going to take any action against the Saudis,\u201d said Wayne Madsen, an author and [&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-382888","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\/382888","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=382888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}