"Is it appropriate, Mr. President, for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you're president? Bruce asked. Is that a conflict of interest? Trump received the question with a smirk. Before he could respond, Bruce directed an equally tough question to the Saudi leader asking him about the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence concluded that bin Salman approved personally."
"I have nothing to do with the family business, Trump said. I have left and I've devoted 100% of my energy. What my family does is fine, they do business all over, they've done very little with Saudi Arabia actually. I'm sure they could do a lot. And anything they've been doing has been very good, that's what we've done, we've built a tremendous business for a long time, I've been very successful. I decided to leave that success behind and make America very successful."
President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman faced pointed questions during an Oval Office press engagement. ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce asked whether Trump’s family doing business in Saudi Arabia presented a conflict of interest. Bruce also asked bin Salman about the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, citing U.S. intelligence conclusions. Trump responded by calling ABC "fake news," defended his family's business activities, and asserted he had left the company to focus fully on the presidency. Trump portrayed his family’s business dealings as largely unrelated to Saudi Arabia and emphasized past commercial success.
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