Thread by @RobbieGramer

In October last year, lawmakers asked Trump to launch a probe and Global Magnitsky sanctions determination into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The deadline for the required response was today. Here’s what Sen. Menendez got from Pompeo instead:

Here’s the response from the White House, via a senior administration official: consistent with administrations in the past, “the President maintains his discretion to decline to act on congressional committee requests when appropriate.” Full response:

Now Sen Menendez releases this in new statement: “Today the Trump administration showed that it is willing to ignore U.S. law in its continued effort to stonewall accountability for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi”