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The US Senate divorced Thursday of Donald Trump's strategy to avoid a confrontation with Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and unanimously approved a non-binding resolution in which designates as "responsible" Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. The Upper House also gave the green light, by 56 votes for and 41 votes, to the withdrawal of US support for the Saudi regime during the war in Yemen, which has no immediate consequence because the vote in the Another House, the representatives, was blocked until January, but sends a direct message to Trump from Republicans and Democrats: they are not by his side in this battle.
at the Saudi Embbady in Istanbul on October 2 and did not leave alive. After several versions, Riyadh finally acknowledged that the journalist critical of the regime had died in the premises in the hands of the agents that he himself would have acted.
Last week, several Republican senators, after receiving direct information from CIA director Gina Haspel, blamed Bin Salman. Investigations by US intelligence agencies, revealed by local media in November, concluded that the prince had ordered his death. "If I appeared before a jury in court," Republican Senator Bob Corker said, Salman "would be sentenced to 30 minutes in jail." "You must be blind," said Senator Lindsey Graham, not to see that the Saudi prince "is fully involved" in the crime.
However, Trump avoids blaming an economically juicy partner for the United States, insists
The vote related to Yemen is an exceptional step that involves limiting the powers of the presidential war, although its current scope is symbolic Because the House of Representatives decided this week to block the vote until January, when the new legislature will take office, and the Democratic legislators are back in the majority. The measure can therefore reach the office of President Trump.
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