{"id":381270,"date":"2018-10-16T23:11:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-saudi-trying-to-whitewash-khashoggi-murder\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T23:11:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:11:29","slug":"presstv-us-saudi-trying-to-whitewash-khashoggi-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-saudi-trying-to-whitewash-khashoggi-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US, Saudi trying to \u2018whitewash\u2019 Khashoggi murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The administration of US President Donald Trump is trying to \u201cwhitewash\u201d Saudi Arabia\u2019s murder of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a former American diplomat says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Press TV on Tuesday, Michael Springmann, a former US diplomat in Jeddah, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s recent trip to Saudi Arabia was an attempt by President Donald Trump to gloss over Saudi Arabia\u2019s deeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is absolutely astonishing, astounding, outrageous\u2026 you name the superlative,\u201d Springmann said. \u201cThe Americans are obviously working to keep the Saudis close to them and the Saudis are working to keep the Americans close to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is scarcely conceivable that the president of the United States would send his secretary of state over to Saudi Arabia and not talk tough with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey\u2019s Istanbul on October 2. Turkish and American intelligence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/16\/577207\/US-Saudi-Khashoggi-murder-whitewash-Pompeo-Trump-bin-Salman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of US President Donald Trump is trying to \u201cwhitewash\u201d Saudi Arabia\u2019s murder of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a former American diplomat says. Speaking to Press TV on Tuesday, Michael Springmann, a former US diplomat in Jeddah, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s recent trip to Saudi Arabia was an attempt by President [&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-381270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}