The president’s biggest beef seems to be that it’s been a public-relations nightmare. These are not the angry reactions of someone who’s morally outraged that a journalist would be lured into a consulate and dismembered alive, as Turkish sources have alleged. It’s the grudging reaction of someone who is annoyed he has to deal with it.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/trump-khashoggi-pr-problem/573409/
