[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 195 (Wednesday, November 19, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4811]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      REMEMBERING JAMAL KHASHOGGI

  (Ms. BALINT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BALINT. Mr. Speaker, on October 2, 2018, a man, a journalist, a 
father, a fiance was lured into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, 
Turkiye. He went to get documents so he could marry his fiancee. He 
never came out. He was murdered in that building. His name was Jamal 
Khashoggi. He was a writer for The Washington Post, and his murder was 
an attack on the free press.
  A month later, our own CIA under Trump concluded that Saudi Crown 
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, MBS, had ordered Khashoggi's killing and 
dismemberment. The U.N. came to the same conclusion. MBS ordered the 
murder.
  Despite that, yesterday, President Trump welcomed MBS to the White 
House with fanfare and pomp and circumstance. Trump said Khashoggi was 
controversial. ``Whether you liked him or didn't like him, things 
happen.''
  Mr. Speaker, there is only one way to look at this and that is moral 
rot: dangerous, chilling moral rot.

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