Trump and Prince Had 'Disturbing' Call After Khashoggi's Murder, Lawmaker Says [View all]
Source: nytimes.com
Representative Eugene Vindman of Virginia said he reviewed a classified transcript of the 2019 conversation that would “shock” Americans.
Robert Jimison Nov. 22, 2025, 10:24 a.m. ET
Representative Eugene Vindman, Democrat of Virginia, called on Friday for the declassification of what he described as a “highly disturbing” 2019 phone call between President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia after the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
At a news conference on Capitol Hill with Mr. Khashoggi’s widow, Mr. Vindman said that the transcript, which he reviewed as part of his duties serving on the National Security Council during Mr. Trump's first term, “would shock people if they knew what was said.”
He said it was one of two disturbing phone call transcripts he had read during his time in the first Trump administration, the other being the 2019 call with Ukraine’s president that became the basis of a whistle-blower complaint involving his twin brother, Alexander Vindman, that led to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment.
Mr. Vindman did not divulge what was said in the call between Mr. Trump and Prince Mohammed, who U.S. intelligence concluded approved the killing. But in a letter to Mr. Trump on Thursday, he and dozens of other House Democrats demanded its release. That push is exceedingly unlikely to succeed, and the Virginia Democrat’s announcement appeared calculated mostly to intensify political pressure on the president and keep attention on the killing of Mr. Khashoggi............................
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Trump and Prince Had ‘Disturbing’ Call After Khashoggi’s Murder, Lawmaker Says
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Representative Eugene Vindman, Democrat of Virginia, called for the declassification of a 2019 conversation between Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia which took place shortly after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Credit...Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times
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