Samantha Power: Trump remark about missing Saudi journalist’s citizenship ‘devastating’

By Naomi Lim

Published October 11, 2018 8:16pm ET

Samantha Power: Trump remark about missing Saudi journalist’s citizenship ‘devastating’ — Harvard professor Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses an audience, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. | (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power condemned President Trump on Thursday for appearing to dismiss the plight of missing dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi because he isn’t a U.S. citizen.

“Devastating. Trump’s cruelty and selfishness are unrivaled by any American public figure in memory,” Power posted on Twitter.

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