{"id":18654,"date":"2018-10-16T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18654"},"modified":"2018-10-16T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T07:24:08","slug":"democrats-say-khashoggi-rogue-killers-theory-defies-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18654","title":{"rendered":"Democrats say Khashoggi &#8216;rogue killers&#8217; theory &#8216;defies reality&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"75\">\n<p>Earlier on Monday, President Trump suggested that he believed &#8220;rogue killers&#8221; may be responsible for the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a theory often advanced in the Saudi media.<\/p>\n<p>On Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats and former intelligence officials hit back at President Trump&#8217;s support of the &#8220;rogue killers&#8221; theory, calling his remarks &#8220;insulting&#8221; and comparing him to a &#8220;PR agent&#8221; for Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The White House notwithstanding, in Washington, there appeared to be increasing criticism and concern about the behaviour of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and an unwillingness to &#8220;cover up&#8221; for Khashoggi&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Mike Hanna reports from Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier on Monday, President Trump suggested that he believed &#8220;rogue killers&#8221; may be responsible for the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a theory often advanced in the Saudi media. On Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats and former intelligence officials hit back at President Trump&#8217;s support of the &#8220;rogue killers&#8221; theory, calling his remarks &#8220;insulting&#8221; and comparing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}