First, the Trump administration stole children from their families. Now they say returning the children would do harm.
“It is zero chance — zero — that this happened without the crown prince,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia has since acknowledged that Khashoggi is dead, and in an unconvincing display, claimed to be prosecuting the people responsible.
But it didn't matter. The damage was already done.
The emerging Khashoggi cover-up is hazardous to the health of the United States.
A new report from CNN early Monday utterly destroys the Saudi cover story for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi with video evidence.
By failing to confront the Saudi rulers over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Trump has implicated the United States in their coverup.
Trump's allies are orchestrating a smear campaign against Jamal Khashoggi to take the heat off Trump for his failure to hold Saudi Arabia accountable.
The news came at a curious moment; it was just past 1 a.m. Saudi time when a prosecutor from the kingdom made the announcement on state TV.
The disappearance and apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi have disrupted the Saudi government’s charm offensive in the United States. Think tanks are returning Saudi money.
After he disappeared while visiting Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul, Donald Trump was a portrait in timidity.
As the U.S. attempts to reunite migrant families, children will bear the burden of helping to identify who and where their parents are.
The Trump administration is shutting out state efforts to help detained children.