{"id":9896,"date":"2018-11-22T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/khashoggi-murder-calls-to-remove-saudi-crown-prince-a-red-line\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T11:07:50","slug":"khashoggi-murder-calls-to-remove-saudi-crown-prince-a-red-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/khashoggi-murder-calls-to-remove-saudi-crown-prince-a-red-line\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress demanded an investigation into whether the prince had a role in the murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the BBC the Saudi Foreign Minister\u00a0Adel al-Jubeir put up a stout defense of his sovereign stating\u00a0Calls to remove Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are a &#8220;red line&#8221;. What that is supposed to mean is unclear but probably indicates they will retaliate economically.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to have hit the spot with Donald Trump who seems to be casually dismissed the CIA&#8217;s report linking Jamaal Khashoggi&#8217;s Murder to the Crown Prince with his maybe he knew and maybe he didn&#8217;t statement. This despite the US Congress demanding an investigation into whether the prince had a role in the murder.\u00a0 Clearly by his actions President Trump views legality, morality and global leadership responsibilities as being less important than take US economic prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump is sending a dangerous message to all the worlds Despots. &#8211; basically, we don&#8217;t care what you do if there is US interests and money at stake. This view seems to be raising a few hackles in the Senate judging by the tweet below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenBobCorker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenBobCorker<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorMenendez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorMenendez<\/a>, top GOP + Dem on Senate Foreign Relations Committee, trigger 2nd sanctions investigation by Trump admin, specifically on whether Crown Prince MBS ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Khashoggi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Khashoggi<\/a>&#8216;s killing. &#8220;We expect to receive your determination within 120 days.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3YlHAn4FWN\">pic.twitter.com\/3YlHAn4FWN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor Finnegan (@cjf39) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjf39\/status\/1065027433726906368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/46283695\">This is a Pretty Good analysis of Donald Trumps Saudis Defence Speech<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the BBC the Saudi Foreign Minister\u00a0Adel al-Jubeir put up a stout defense of his sovereign stating\u00a0Calls to remove Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are a &#8220;red line&#8221;. What that is supposed to mean is unclear but probably indicates they will retaliate economically. This seems to have hit the spot with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[246,245,61],"class_list":["post-9896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-us-canada-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-jamaal-khashoggi","tag-saudi-arabia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9923,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions\/9923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}