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The New York Times reports:
Mr. Biden emerged from the plane and made his way down the stairs for his first visit to Saudi Arabia as president, wearing his aviator shades, waving and looking serious. He was greeted by Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, and Prince Khalid Al Faisal. The president climbed into his limousine just two minutes after disembarking. He was taken directly to meet the king.
Arriving at the al-Salam palace, Mr. Biden was met by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the two exchanged an apparently wordless fist bump before the prince led the president inside. Mr. Biden’s aides had been dreading any image of the president meeting with Prince Mohammed, the de facto ruler of the kingdom, who was deemed responsible for the 2018 murder in Istanbul of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist.
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The meeting marks a reversal of Biden’s campaign promise to isolate the kingdom as a “pariah” state for its human rights violations, particularly the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was a contributing columnist for The Washington Post. https://t.co/UoZipJv4s2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 15, 2022
Biden has made clear his discomfort with sitting face to face with the man who U.S. intelligence officials determined ordered Khashoggi’s killing, and the president repeatedly downplayed his trip to the region in the period leading up to it.https://t.co/UoZipJv4s2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 15, 2022
President Trump touched an orb in Saudi Arabia and the internet lit up https://t.co/gFLklBmXkS pic.twitter.com/c3gDYvyqHO
— CNN (@CNN) May 22, 2017
Saudi Arabia: Come over.
Trump: Can’t. Being hounded about the Russia stuff.
Saudi Arabia: We’ll let you touch the orb.
Trump: pic.twitter.com/f5J0dqzfAi
— Jonathan ‘Boo and Vote’ Cohn (@JonathanCohn) May 21, 2017
All of the hyperventilating about whether Biden will shake hands, or fist-bump, or smile when he meets Mohamed bin Salman is silly. Biden is in Saudi because of one reason only: Ukraine. He wants to prevent an alliance between SA and Russia that will keep gas prices high.
— Richard Stengel (@stengel) July 15, 2022