CONGRESS/DEMS/MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump refused to provide Congress a report on Friday [2-8-19] determining who killed the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, defying a demand by lawmakers intent on establishing whether the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was behind the grisly assassination. Mr. Trump effectively bypassed a deadline set by law as his administration argued that Congress could not impose its will on the president. Critics charged that he was seeking to cover up Saudi complicity in the death of Mr. Khashoggi, an American resident and a columnist for The Washington Post…But Democrats said Mr. Trump was violating a law known as the Magnitsky Act. It required him to respond 120 days after a request submitted in the fall by committee leaders — including Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee and then the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — a period that expired Friday.”
–Peter Baker and Eric Schmitt, “Trump Defies Congressional Deadline on Khashoggi Report,” The New York Times online, February 8, 2019