Mike Pompeo dismisses ‘faux outrage’ over murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Former Trump secretary of state claims US media depicted Washington Post columnist as a Saudi Arabian Bob Woodward'

The former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has dismissed the indignation prompted by the murder of Jamal Khashoggi as faux outrage" - and cast doubt on whether the Washington Post columnist was a genuine journalist at all.

In his new book, Pompeo says that Khashoggi - who was killed by Saudi agents in Istanbul in 2018 - was not a Saudi Arabian Bob Woodward martyred for bravely criticising the Saudi royal family".