MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “President Donald Trump said Monday [10-22-18] he’s not satisfied with the explanations he’s heard about the death of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi and is awaiting reports from U.S. personnel returning from the region. Khashoggi, who lived in the United States and wrote critically about the Saudi royal family, died earlier this month at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia said he was killed in a fistfight, but Turkish officials said the 59-year-old Washington Post columnist was attacked and killed by a 15-man Saudi team. Asked if he believed Saudi Arabia’s explanation, Trump said, “I am not satisfied with what I’ve heard’…Trump characterized Khashoggi’s incident as a ‘plot gone awry’ and told the newspaper he didn’t think the writer was deliberately lured into the consulate to be killed.”
–The Associated Press, “Trump ‘Not Satisfied’ With Explanations of Khashoggi Death,” The New York Times online, October 22, 2018