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Trump says he raised Khashoggi murder case with 'friend' Prince Mohammed

The crown prince has become a pariah in Washington since Khashoggi's killing at the hand of Saudi agents in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate

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Margaret Talev and Nick Wadhams | Bloomberg
President Donald Trump said he raised the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi in a meeting with Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday, as he called Saudi Arabia’s crown prince a friend and praised him for reforms in the kingdom.
 
"I asked him what was happening” with Khashoggi’s death, Trump said at a briefing at the end of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan where the president earlier had breakfast with the crown prince.
 
“There are large numbers of people being prosecuted. He’s very angry about it, he’s very unhappy about it,” Trump said of the killing. “I

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