"Seven years ago, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, became an international pariah after intelligence officers said to be acting on his orders abducted and murdered the Washington Post columnist and opposition critic Jamal Khashoggi. In a gruesome coda, it later emerged, the Saudi agents dismembered his body with a bone saw in order to dispose of the evidence."
"On Tuesday, Prince Mohammed was met with the most extravagant reception of the second Trump administration, as the two men said they would cement $1tn in deals and made a public show of bonhomie that marked perhaps the most important bilateral relationship of this administration. It was far more than a simple normalisation of relations as Trump abandoned concerns over Khashoggi's murder to pursue his latest triumph as the self-declared dealmaker-in-chief."
Mohammed bin Salman returned to Washington for an elaborate Oval Office visit with Donald Trump. The crown prince, once an international pariah after intelligence officers allegedly acting on his orders abducted and murdered Jamal Khashoggi, received a lavish reception and public show of camaraderie. Trump publicly dismissed US intelligence conclusions implicating the crown prince, criticized the murdered columnist, and asked why the press questioned the guest. The pair announced up to $1tn in Saudi investment in the United States, with Trump portraying the agreement as a major job-creating triumph and the relationship as a critical bilateral partnership.
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