A White House official dismissed as "false nonsense" Monday a claim that Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, gave permission to Saudi ruler Mohammad bin Salman to arrest Jamal Khashoggi before he was killed and dismembered.

The claim was made in a report in a gossip column of the U.S. edition of British conservative news magazine The Spectator. 

The report also claimed that Turkish intelligence intercepted the call and President Recep Erdogan then used the information to force Donald Trump to remove his troops from northern Syria.

The report claims that investigators on the Democratic-led House Intelligence Committee are aware of these allegations and are planning to dig further into them while pursuing the impeachment inquiry over Trump's dealings with Ukraine.   

Daily Mail