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Joe Biden: “I said at the time, Khashoggi was in fact murdered and dismembered. And I believe in the order of the Crown Prince. And…”

On the recordJune 14, 2022
I said at the time, Khashoggi was in fact murdered and dismembered. And I believe in the order of the Crown Prince. And I would make it very clear, we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them. We were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are. There’s very little social redeeming value of the -- in the president government in Saudi Arabia. And I would also, as pointed out, I would end the subsidies that we have and the sale of material to the Saudis who are they’re going in and murdering children and they’re murdering innocent people, and so, they have to be held accountable.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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msnbc.com

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Biden discusses the need to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for human rights violations and his stance on arms sales to the country.

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