Biden: Saudi minister lied about not hearing him confront MBS on Khashoggi’s killing

NY Post ^ | July 17, 2022 | Mark Moore

[McGruff]

President Biden accused Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister of lying when he contradicted the president’s claim that had raised the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and bristled when asked about the fist bump with the royal.

Returning early Sunday morning to the White House after his four-day trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, Biden was asked whether A​del al-Jubier was telling the truth when he said he didn’t hear the president bring up Khashoggi with the prince, commonly referred to as MBS.

“No,” Biden responded bluntly, according to a White House pool report.

The president, moments after arriving on Marine One, was also asked if he regretted the controversial fist bump with MBS.

“Why don’t you guys talk about something that matters? I’m happy to answer a question that matters,” he shot back.

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Democrat diplomacy at its best. Calling him a liar is a lot different in the Middle East than it is here in America and I think he just screwed himself out of any help that they would’ve given

[rottweiller_inc]

Not to mention assuming the right to dictate what price range you can tell it’s oil at. If they could tell Russia what price that they could tell Saudi Arabia what price