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Brenda

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Sat Nov 22, 2025, 06:55 PM Nov 22

Calls Grow to Release Transcript of 'Highly Disturbing' Trump-MBS Call After Khashoggi Murder

Rep. Eugene Vindman—who was a White House national security lawyer at the time of the 2019 call—said it “would shock people if they knew what was said.”

The widow of Jamal Khashoggi on Friday joined Democratic members of Congress in urging President Donald Trump to release the transcript of a phone conversation between the US leader and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following the journalist’s 2018 kidnapping and gruesome murder by Saudi operatives.

Speaking outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC flanked by Democratic members of Congress including Reps. Eugene Vindman of Virginia and Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said she is seeking the lawmakers’ help “to get the contents of the conversation between President Trump and MBS to get the truth.”

Vindman urged the declassification and release of what he called a “highly disturbing” 2019 call between Trump and MBS—who US intelligence agencies say ordered Khashoggi’s murder—the contents of which the congressman claimed “would shock people if they knew what was said.”

At the time of the call, Vindman was serving as a lawyer on Trump’s National Security Council, where his duties included reviewing presidential communications with foreign leaders.

The Central Intelligence Agency concluded that MBS ordered Khashoggi’s murder. Saudi officials refuted the CIA’s findings. Trump also expressed skepticism at his own intelligence agency’s conclusion, which came as the US was selling or seeking to sell billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia despite its rampant war crimes in Yemen.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-mbs-khashoggi
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Calls Grow to Release Transcript of 'Highly Disturbing' Trump-MBS Call After Khashoggi Murder (Original Post) Brenda Nov 22 OP
This transcript needs to be released LetMyPeopleVote Nov 23 #1
K&R spanone Nov 23 #2
bump for visibility RT Atlanta Nov 23 #3
Apparently there isn't a wedding ring involved. nt Brenda Nov 25 #4

RT Atlanta

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 07:35 PM
Nov 23

donnie loves colluding with murderers and - at every effin opportunity - shitting on our country's intelligence agencies

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