The increasingly desperate Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, shifted tactics yet again today, and attempted to follow the Trump playbook of accusing his opponent of doing the very thing he is guilty of.

“It was Jamal Khashoggi who dismembered me with a bone saw. Sad!”

MbS, as he likes to be known, also came up with some catchy insults for the deceased Washington Post opinion writer whose murder he so obviously sanctioned.

“No-one should listen to Kaput Kaghossi. He’s the worst. Very low I.Q.”

He then delivered the coup de grâce that would surely exonerate him in the mind of any right-thinking patriot.

“Obviously this gruesome murder was committed by a blond-haired woman named Hillary.”

The Saudi leader followed this by repeatedly chanting ‘Lock Her Up’ in Arabic and asking a colleague if he was doing it right.