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Lindsey Graham: “There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw. You have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2018
There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw. You have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organized by people under the command of MBS and that he was intricately involved in the demise of Mr. Khashoggi.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Senator Graham asserts that the evidence points to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman being directly involved in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

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