MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “U.S. President Donald Trump said in a CBS interview on Saturday [10-13-18] that there would be ‘severe punishment’ for Saudi Arabia if it turns out that missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, is a prominent critic of the Saudi authorities and a legal resident of the United States. He disappeared on Oct. 2 after visiting the consulate. Trump said in an interview for 60 Minutes that there was much at stake with Khashoggi case, ‘maybe especially so’ because he was a reporter.”
–Reuters Staff, “Trump says Saudi Arabia faces “severe punishment” if Khashoggi was killed,” Reuters, October 13, 2018 5:31 am