NOURNEWS - The story began when a number of Democratic lawmakers in the US Congress announced that the State Department inspector, who had recently been fired by Donald Trump, had launched an investigation into arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
These representatives have announced that Senior State Department inspector Steve Linick has been investigating why and how the $ 7 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia was smoothed out despite opposition from Congress.
While neither the White House nor the State Department has given a specific reason for the expulsion of Linick, Mike Pompeo has stated that he has called for his expulsion because Linick damages the State Department's reputation.
Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also expressed the dismissal of Lynnick before the end of his investigation was a matter of concern.
Meanwhile, some analysts considers the dismissal of Linick as an attempt to cover up the widespread Saudi war crimes in Yemen with American weapons, which Trump's campaign has done to keep public opinion out of the United States.
On the other hand; Some pro-democracy U.S. sources have cited the expulsion of Steve Linick and the non-restriction of arms sales to Saudi Arabia as a precondition for Mohammed bin Salman to fund Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.
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