WASHINGTON—Decrying the
Senate’s resolution blaming the crown prince for the brutal torture and murder
of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “a cruel, inhumane, and unprecedented
interference into a sovereign kingdom’s internal affairs,” the Trump
administration launched a human rights investigation Monday into the Senate’s
harsh treatment of Saudi ruler Mohammad bin Salman.
“We are looking into the
deeply troubling accusations that the United States Senate has chosen to
willfully and knowingly place fault for the murder of a dissident journalist on
a Saudi crown prince,” said the president, claiming that no despot should be
made to endure such inhumane treatment as the loss of military funding for an
ongoing war in Yemen that has left millions homeless and starving, no matter
whose dismemberment they may have ordered.
“Facing criticism like this on
the international stage is, for a powerful leader such as bin Salman, basically
torture, and we take this kind of mistreatment very seriously. This is not how
Americans treat authoritarian regimes that purchase our weapons. Without
billions of dollars in military aid, how is the Saudi regime supposed to
maintain its basic standard of living?”
The Trump administration is
expected to charge all American senators with crimes against humanity for their
role in holding the Saudi regime responsible for its actions.
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