US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he plans to speak with Saudi Arabia's King Salman about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. "I will be calling at some point King Salman," Trump said in a statement to reporters in Cincinnati, Ohio, Efe reported. "A lot of people are looking to find out because it is potentially a really, really terrible situation," the president added with reference to the journalist's possible murder.

Trump promised to get to the bottom of what happened and said that "right now, nobody knows anything about it," though people are beginning to form ideas. As for his friendly relations with Saudi Arabia, and especially those of his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, he said, "Well I don't know if it's any closer than other relationships that people have. We have a lot of very close relationships with a lot of countries."