This Congressman Knows What Trump Told MBS After Khashoggi's Killing. He Says the Public Needs to See the Transcript

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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.

Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript

— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T19:41:43.297Z

Rep. Eugene Vindman, a Virginia Democrat, is alleging there was a “shocking” 2019 call between President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia following the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi that the public needs to hear. Vindman knows about it because he was working at the time as a lawyer on the White House’s National Security Council, which produced a classified summary of the conversation.

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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 Khashoggi’s 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.

Vindman’s 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 Khashoggi’s 2018 death and “things happen.” But a CIA assessment released in 2021 found that Saudi agents in Istanbul had been acting on bin Salman’s 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.