Turkey on Wednesday blasted as “comic” President Trump’s decision to stand by Saudi Arabia despite the CIA concluding Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was behind the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“It is not possible for an intelligence agency such as the CIA, which even knows the color of the fur on the cat walking around the Saudi consulate’s garden … to not know who gave this order,” said Numan Kurtulmus, deputy chairman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s political party, Reuters reported. “This is not credible either for US public opinion or the world public opinion.”

“Yesterday’s statement is a comic statement,” he added.

Turkey has said the order for the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government, but has not directly accused the crown prince.

Trump, in a statement Tuesday, sided with the kingdom over the CIA assessment.

“Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t,” Trump said about the ruling royal.

He went on to repeat claims made by Saudi Arabia against Khashoggi, whose writings were often critical of the prince and his government.

“Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an ‘enemy of the state’ and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that — this is an unacceptable and horrible crime,” he said.

Saudi Arabia finally admitted that Khashoggi was killed after he got into a brawl with officials at the consulate who were trying to return him to the kingdom.

Turkey said the “hit squad” killed the writer, then dismembered his body before taking the remains out of the country in luggage aboard private planes.