Jamal Khashoggi was among a number of journalists who interviewed Bin Laden in the 1980s and ’90s. But the picture and article, Poole claimed, was proof that Khashoggi was “tooling around Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden.”

“He’s just a democrat reformer journalist holding a RPG with jihadists,” Poole tweeted.

Sean Davis, the co-founder of conservative website The Federalist, commented on Poole’s tweet to suggest that Khashoggi’s defenders were being duped by Iranian interests looking to hurt relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Trump has pointed out that Khashoggi WAS A RESIDENT OF THE USA, NOT A CITIZEN.