As information about the gruesome nature of Khashoggi’s murder is becoming public—a period of time during which Kushner and MBS are conversing via WhatsApp—Saudi officials falsely claim Khashoggi “left the consulate soon after arriving” and that “video cameras at the consulate were not recording at the time.”249 In the United States, both Trump and his new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, come out “in support of Saudi officials’ denials they know anything about what happened to Khashoggi.”250 Trump tweets that, after speaking to MBS, he can report that the Saudi crown prince “totally denied
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