Crown Jewel: U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal Calls On WWE To ‘Recognize On Its Own A Conscience And Conviction’

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) has chimed in with some advice of his own regarding WWE’s decision to partner with the Saudi Arabian government for the upcoming Crown Jewel pay-per-view.

WWE’s Crown Jewel marks the company’s return to Saudi Arabia and is still set to take place on November 2nd, despite reports indicating that Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been assassinated by the Saudi regime, a repeated violator of human rights.

Blumenthal joins a chorus of senators from both sides of the American political spectrum in advising the WWE to re-think its relations with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Khashoggi disappearance.

Blumenthal told WCBS News Radio 820,

“All major private interests should review and relook their relationship with the Saudi Kingdom in light of its continuing pattern of abuse of civil rights and civil liberties, contempt for the rule of law, and bombing in Yemen using the United States military equipment and possible intelligence. I would hope that WWE will recognize on its own a conscience and conviction if there is proof that Saudi officials approved and ordered this kind of killing, and I would lean first on the United States government to do its duty so that it can lead private interests like WWE, and the first place to look is to the United States of America.”

The WWE has only issued the following statement in response to Khashoggi’s likely murder,

“We are currently monitoring the situation.”

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