Eli Lake, Columnist

Trump Dares Congress to Do What He Won’t on Saudi Arabia

The president’s extraordinary statement on Khashoggi’s murder means that it’ll be up to Congress to respond to the journalist’s death.

November 21, 2018 at 6:05 PM UTC

By Eli Lake

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Trump’s response to his death is making the world more dangerous.
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“The world is a very dangerous place!”

So begins President Donald Trump’s official statement on what he says is the unknowable culpability of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince for the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.