translated from Spanish: Trump warns of “severe punishment” If Saudi Arabia is following disappearance of reporter

the President of the United States, Donald Trump, today warned that there a “severe punishment” if it is proved that Saudi Arabia is behind the disappearance of the saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“We are going to get to the bottom of the matter and there will be a severe punishment,” said Trump today in an excerpt from an interview with the CBS which will be full tomorrow.
In that interview, the Republican President believes that Saudi Arabia could be responsible for the disappearance of Khashoggi, the American newspaper “The Washington Post” columnist.
“It is being investigated, it is parsed with great force. And if that were so, we would be very upset and angry. They now deny it vehemently. Could they be? Yes’, awarded Trump.
Trump told the CBS that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, spoke this week about the issue with the saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who denied any responsibility.
“They deny it. They deny it in any way that you can imagine. But in the not-too-distant future, I think that we will know a response”, said without giving more details about the course of the investigation or his conversations with Saudi Arabia, a traditional ally of the USA in the Middle East.
The President, very critical of the U.S. Press, considered that the matter is especially serious because it’s a journalist.
“Perhaps because he was a reporter, I think that’s why there is so much at stake here. It is something that will surprise you to hear me, but there is something very terrible and disgusting about it, if that is the case. We will have to do”, he said.
Khashoggi was last seen alive the past day 2, when it came to the saudi Consulate in Istanbul to collect documents that needed to be able to marry Turkish girlfriend, who was waiting outside the building.
The journalist, before close to the saudi monarchy, distanced himself from it last summer, when the current Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ascended to positions of power.
According to the American newspaper “The Washington Post”, the Turkish Government would have informed the authorities of United States available recorded video and audio which would demonstrate that the journalist was killed at the Consulate.

Original source in Spanish