Did Trump gang have a motive for Khashoggi being silenced?

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8. Khashoggi's troubles started after he criticized Trump

BY JASON LEMON ON 11/21/18 AT 1:06 PM

Although Jamal Khashoggi has been remembered for his criticism of the war in Yemen and the crown prince’s crackdown on dissidents and activists, the troubles for the Washington Post columnist actually began in late 2016, when he criticized recently elected President Donald Trump.

According to a report by the State Department, the journalist’s column in the Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat was allegedly canceled due to political pressure. About six months later he fled to the United States, saying he “could face arrest upon returning home.”

"In 2016 authorities purportedly banned him from writing, appearing on television and attending conferences as the result of remarks he made that were interpreted as criticizing the president of the United States, according to multiple media sources," the report states.

“The expectation that Trump as president will be starkly different from Trump as candidate is a false hope at best," Khashoggi wrote in his column, according to Business Insider. He also classified Trump’s foreign policy positions as “contradictory,” saying his supportive statements toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad were at odds with his criticism of Iran ...

https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-banned-khashoggi-speaking-writing-after-criticized-trump-1226762