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Saudi Arabia just gave the U.S. $100 million. The Trump administration says it has nothing to do with the Khashoggi scandal.

Saudi Arabia paid $100 million to the U.S. government on Tuesday, the same day Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in Riyadh for an apparently friendly discussion with the Saudi rulers about the disappearance and presumed murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and government critic. A State Department official confirmed the payment on Wednesday but insisted it had nothing to do with the Khashoggi disappearance, widely blamed on the Saudi government. The money was party of Saudi Arabia's pledged contribution to a U.S.

 

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