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Scoop: Rep. Eugene Vindman knows what Trump said on a 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince about Jamal Khashoggi's killing, and his effort to make it public is about to rachet up.
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T19:41:43.297Z
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
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Vindman first spoke publicly about the phone call on the House floor on Tuesday, but his comments were largely swamped in the news by the landslide House vote demanding Trump release the Jeffrey Epstein case files. In his speech, Vindman called on Trump to also release the transcript of his call with MBS, as the Crown Prince is known. If history is any guide, the receipts will be shocking, Vindman said.
Those remarks were the opening salvo of a pressure campaign Vindman plans to unfold in the next weeks and months to demand Trump reveal to the public what he told MBS in private. That campaign will include Khashoggis widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, joining Vindman for a press conference at the Capitol tomorrow. Vindman tells TIME he has also spoken to the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, about writing a bill to require Trump release the transcript.
Vindmans unusual decision to speak about the sensitive work he was involved with on the National Security Council came about quickly this week. He says the President forced his hand. He was in his Capitol Hill office on Tuesday when he heard that Trump had defended the crown prince during their Oval Office meeting, in response to a question about Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist. Trump said on Tuesday the Saudi leader knew nothing about Khashoggis 2018 death and things happen. But a CIA assessment released in 2021 found that Saudi agents in Istanbul had been acting on bin Salmans order in 2018 when they killed and dismembered Khashoggi, who had written critically of the Saudi royal family.
More: https://time.com/7335544/trump-transcript-khashoggi-vindman-mbs/
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Eugene Vindman is a good man. Let the truth be told.
Grim Chieftain
(1,020 posts)sheshe2
(95,140 posts)For his safety and for the truth to come out.
Bmoboy
(594 posts)Too bad we have become desensitized to his lies.
JohnnyLib2
(11,303 posts)and in a strong position to bedevil Trump. Bravo!
rubbersole
(10,932 posts)soldierant
(9,189 posts)May be be protected.
Cha
(316,090 posts)We So Appreciate him and Hanan Elatr Khashoggi Bravely Speaking Out at the Capitol tomorrow.
Be So Careful and Security Please Watch Their Backs! :
Yes.. "Things happen.." and some day Things will happen to the Glazed Orange Pig.
Release the Transcript
sheshe2
(95,140 posts)ReRe
(12,162 posts)djt's cavalier attitude on camera about the demise of an American citizen who entered the Saudi Embassy to pick up a marriage license, his fiancé waiting in the car, who was never seen again. I immediately thought of how Khashoggi's fiancé must have felt when A-hole said that, while mbs sat over there wringing his hands.
Things happen alright. Rep Eugene Vindman is going to prove that things happen.
popsdenver
(1,239 posts)if they let this go on any longer.............The 25th amendment takes too long, and if he knows it is coming, he will be hell bent for revenge on everyone/everything.....Here and in the entire world.......
They are risking their entire Republican party at this point...........
Joinfortmill
(19,703 posts)Bayard
(28,070 posts)trump will try to find something to prosecute him for.
Wiz Imp
(8,411 posts)The NY Times published a story a few months ago revealing Epstein had prominently displayed a photo of himself with MBS in his NYC Townhome. And there are emails between Epstein and others concerning Saudi Arabia in 2017 relating to MBS being promoted to Crown Prince. You would think at least someone in the media would have made mention of Epstein ties with MBS and Saudi Arabia this week (perhaps someone did but I didn't see it).
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