{"id":394361,"date":"2019-01-28T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-lenience-in-murder-case-payback-for-saudi-favors\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:33:45","slug":"presstv-trump-lenience-in-murder-case-payback-for-saudi-favors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-lenience-in-murder-case-payback-for-saudi-favors\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Trump lenience in murder case payback for Saudi favors\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump refrained from holding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to account over the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October as a means of paying back Riyadh\u2019s favors, an American political analyst says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing very wealthy, one moves among the same circle of people and favors are done for each other. People, such as many Saudis, would help bail him out of desperate situations and there would be some payback,\u201d Myles Hoenig told Press TV on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Trump\u2019s case, the saved favor was letting\u201d bin Salman \u201cget off nearly \u2018Scott-free,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi, a royal insider-turned-bin Salman critic, was killed after entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of denials of any involvement in Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance, the Riyadh regime acknowledged the \u201cpremeditated\u201d murder, but has vehemently sought to distance the heir to the throne from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/28\/587012\/United-States-Saudi-Arabia-Donald-Trump-Mohammad-bin-Salman-Jamal-Khashoggi-government-shutdown-Pelosi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump refrained from holding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to account over the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October as a means of paying back Riyadh\u2019s favors, an American political analyst says. \u201cBeing very wealthy, one moves among the same circle of people and favors are done for [&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-394361","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\/394361","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=394361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}