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US President Donald Trump, during a press conference with Saudi Crown Prince MBS on Tuesday (Nov 18), got furious over questions on the Epstein files. A reporter of ABC News asked the American president why he does not release Jeffrey Epstein's sex offence file rather than waiting for Congress to do it. Trump, in response, called ABC News a fake news organisation and said its licence should be revoked.
"I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein," he added.
This came parallel to the voting on releasing the Epstein files that began in the Senate. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said he would “move on the floor so that the Senate can take it up immediately” regarding the Epstein files bill.
“The American people have waited long enough, and they want to see what’s in it,” he said.
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US President Donald Trump welcomed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House on Tuesday (Nov. 18) for the first time since 2018. This was bin Salman's first US visit after a US-based journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was killed in 2018 in Turkey. He was a critic of Saudi Arabia’s government. For decades, the 59-year-old was close to the Saudi royal family and also served as an adviser to the government.
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During a press conference from the Oval Office with bin Salman, Trump said that he "knew nothing about" the journalist's murder. In a conclusion of the probe into his murder in 2021, the US intelligence had said that bin Salman orchestrated the brutal murder of Khashoggi.
Trump called ABC News, whose reporter asked the question on the topic, fake news. "You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman [Khashoggi] that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen. But he [bin Salman] knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that," Trump said.
Meanwhile, bin Salman called Khashoggi's murder a "huge mistake".
"it's painful and it's a huge mistake, and we are doing our best that this doesn't happen again," the Saudi crown prince said.
