{"id":56300,"date":"2025-11-21T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56300"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:40:24","slug":"calls-grow-to-release-transcript-of-highly-disturbing-trump-mbs-call-after-khashoggi-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/21\/calls-grow-to-release-transcript-of-highly-disturbing-trump-mbs-call-after-khashoggi-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls Grow to Release Transcript of \u2018Highly Disturbing\u2019 Trump-MBS Call After Khashoggi Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The widow of Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> on Friday joined Democratic members of Congress<\/a> in urging President Donald Trump<\/a> to release the transcript of a phone conversation between the US leader and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following the journalist\u2019s 2018 kidnapping and gruesome murder by Saudi operatives.<\/p>\n

Speaking outside the US Capitol in Washington<\/a>, DC flanked by Democratic members of Congress including Reps. Eugene Vindman of Virginia<\/a> and Jamie Raskin<\/a> of Maryland, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said she is seeking the lawmakers\u2019 help \u201cto get the contents of the conversation between President Trump and MBS to get the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTry as much as you can to save the democratic freedom of America,\u201d Khashoggi implored the audience at the gathering. \u201cDo not be a copy of the Middle East dictator countries. We look to America as our role model of modern civilization. Please maintain it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vindman urged the declassification and release of what he called<\/a> a \u201chighly disturbing\u201d 2019 call between Trump and MBS \u2013 who US intelligence agencies say ordered Khashoggi\u2019s murder \u2013 the contents of which the congressman claimed \u201cwould shock people if they knew what was said.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time of the call, Vindman was serving as a lawyer on Trump\u2019s National Security Council, where his duties included reviewing presidential communications with foreign leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll week, I\u2019ve urged the president to release this transcript,\u201d Vindman said<\/a> during his remarks at Friday\u2019s press conference. \u201cYesterday, I sent him a letter<\/a> with 37 of my colleagues demanding its release. We will continue pressing until the American people get the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven President Trump\u2019s disturbing and counterfactual defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week, I felt compelled to speak up on behalf of the Khashoggi family and the country I serve,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

Today, I was honored to stand with Hanan Elatr Khashoggi to call on @POTUS<\/a> to release the transcript of his 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince following the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
\u00a0
I reviewed this call while serving as a staff lawyer on Trump\u2019s National\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/5AsPdZLebT<\/a><\/p>\n

— Congressman Eugene Vindman (@RepVindman) November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n