‘Nothing Can Justify This Crime’: Khashoggi’s Widow Reacts to Trump’s Defense of Saudi Crown Prince

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Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, the widow of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, says she is “upset” by U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump said MBS knew nothing about the 2018 murder—contradicting a U.S. intelligence assessment.  #Khashoggi #JamalKhashoggi #HananElatr #Trump #DonaldTrump #MBS

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00:00His justification for the crime upset me in sense, nothing to justify, just a horrible crime,

00:21kidnapping, torture and killing and dismantle a body, because he's controversial or he's

00:28unliked by someone. It doesn't give a reason to any criminal to take some innocent person's life away.

00:42I felt very bad because he describes someone else, not Jamal. And I wish one day I met with

00:48President Trump and I introduced Real Jamal to him. And I share with him what is Real Jamal,

00:53how he's been transparent, brave, great man.

01:03I did have a mixed feeling. I felt very sore because I wished Jamal still alive and safe,

01:23and he's here to receive him. Because Jamal believed in him a lot. And Jamal in fact, in 2018, in the first

01:30visit of the Crown Prince to U.S., Jamal was waiting for an invitation from the Crown Prince to share

01:40with him his opinion and his vision and to rectify any misinformation being told to the Crown Prince.

01:47And on another hand, I did feel this is what Jamal wished in sense. He wants Saudi Arabia not to be a

01:55Baraya country, and they have a normal relation with the rest of the world, especially USA.

02:08They can welcome him. They can have a deal with him, selling him a weapon, which Jamal liked it.

02:14Jamal wanted his country to be safe and to be advanced. But in the same time,

02:18do not neglect totally the unfinished business about Jamal tragedy, because nothing, no real action

02:26been taken to bring justice for Jamal or myself. Since the Crown Prince admitted verbally in 60 minutes

02:352019, he took responsibility, but he didn't do any step further. There is no transparent trial happened.

02:44My lawyer, Saudi lawyer in jail, because just he is representing me. I did not get an official apology.

02:51I did not get financial compensation. In fact, they destroy my life.

03:00Did you hear what Trump said? I did. Justice is very hard to get it. It's very long battle. And as a

03:08woman standing alone, it's very hard. This is what you look to me. But it will not stop me to persist

03:15until I get justice for myself, because I'm the second victim, basically. They killed Jamal,

03:21and they killed me on the same day they killed Jamal.

03:38They killed Jamal. It's so true. They killed me on the same day they killed Jamal.

03:46They killed him on the same day. They killed him on the same day. They killed Jamal.

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