Trump: I’m aware of the audio recording content of Khashoggi’s death… it’s terrible!!!

US President Donald Trump has given a full knowledge about the audio recording of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but he does not want to listen to it personally.

Trump said that the United States has a copy of the recordings of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi murder, but he does not want to listen to himself because it is terrible”.

Trump said he did not know if the Saudi Crown Prince had lied to him when he denied his responsibility for Khashoggi’s death.

“The US-Saudi relations are important”, he said.

“We have a good ally and I want to stick to it”.

Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Friday that “the recording documenting the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is a record of suffering and it’s terrible”, adding that “it was very violent, brutal and very terrible”.

The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that the CIA had concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the killing of Khashoggi.

When asked whether the Crown Prince, who denies any involvement in the crime, lied to him, he replied that he did not know, and was not sure that the Saudi crown prince had been a liar and that he knew.

“He told me he had nothing to do with what happened”.

“He probably told me five times, on different occasions, including days ago”.

Saudi Arabia repeatedly changed its official statement of what happened with Khashoggi after he entered its consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.

Trump said the United States had imposed financial sanctions on Saudi officials and stressed that Saudi Arabia was a wonderful ally.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in mid-November that he had briefed Riyadh, Washington, Paris and Berlin on recordings of Khashoggi’s murder.

Erdogan has repeatedly stressed that the order to kill Khashoggi was issued by “the highest levels in the Saudi government”.

The Turkish president insisted that Saudi king has nothing to do with the crime, and do not hold the responsibility or knowledge of what happened with Khashoggi, at time many Turkish officials put the blame on the Saudi crown prince.

The Washington Post reported that the US security services had reached conclusions by examining a number of data from various sources, including the telephone call made by Prince Khalid bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, with Khashoggi, reassuring him that there was no risk Or a threat if he visits the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

On Thursday, the Saudi Public Prosecution announced that it had charged 11 people in the death of Jamal Khashoggi with a request for the execution of five people and ordered the imposition of legal sanctions against the rest.