A majority of u.s. senators (56-41) voted to limit the president’s krigföringsmakter – a historically rare vote sends a clear missnöjesbudskap to Trumpadministrationen.
Senators also voted for a non-binding resolution that points out the saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, as personally responsible for the assassination of the saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. The resolution also calls on saudi Arabia to ”moderate its increasingly erratic foreign policy”.
stopped US refuel the fuel for saudi to humans. Thursday’s vote ensures that the Pentagon is not allowed to resume the aid.
This is seen as a hard position from a majority of the u.s. senate (a majority of which are republicans), against Donald Trump’s support for the saudi crown prince. Trump said last Tuesday that he continued to support the crown prince bin Salman, despite the fact that the CIA pointed him out as medskyldig to the murder.
« I absolutely believe that if the crown prince stood in front of a jury Sekabet here in the united states it had taken less than 30 minutes for him to be sentenced to murder, » said the republican senator Bob Corker to the american press on Tuesday.
» I absolutely believe that he ordered it. I think he supervised it. And I think that he is responsible for it, he said.
described the vote as a direct response to Trump’s refusal to demand accountability from saudi Arabia for Khasshoggimordet, and a protest against Trump’s attitude to the money the united states can earn from the sale of arms to saudi Arabia legitimizes that the country turn a blind eye to the murder.
« We can’t knit under the chair with the past feeling, indifference in the face of human dignity and the obvious crimes against the international standards that the saudis have committed to, » said senator Robert Menendez from New Jersey to The New York Times.
Menendez is also the highest-ranking democrat on the senate committee on foreign relations.
– saudi Arabia have now gone with a sneaky grouping together with north Korea, Russia and Iran with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. You can’t buy our silence through the arms trade. It should not buy our silence – and if the president refuses, Congress take action, » he said.
