President Donald Trump dispatched Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Saudi Arabia on Oct. 15 after speaking with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, who told the president he has no knowledge of what happened to missing columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
“I asked the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to immediately get on a plane, go to Saudi Arabia, go to other places if necessary, which he probably will, with regards to this—go to Turkey if necessary. The King told me Turkey and Saudi Arabia are working hand-in-hand very closely on getting to the bottom of what happened, so we’ll see what happened,” Trump said outside the White House on Oct. 15.
