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During a controversial Oval Office meeting last week, President Trump defended Mohammed bin Salman when a reporter asked about the Saudi crown prince's involvement in the 2018 murder of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi. "The man sitting in the White House next to President Trump is a murderer," says Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN, an organization founded by Khashoggi in 2018. To Whitson, Trump's main motivation for cozying up to Saudi Arabia is financial. "The U.S. government [is] promising to deploy American men and women soldiers to defend the Saudi crown prince … in exchange for profits for U.S. companies, U.S. businesses and U.S. officials."
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President Trump said the envoy, Steve Witkoff, was using standard negotiating methods, after he appeared to coach a Russian official in a leaked call.
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The Supreme Court will consider two other cases on presidential firings first.
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(First column, 9th story, link)
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The White House envoy's conversation suggests that President Trump is determined to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine, even if it is mostly on Russia's terms.
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The president did not attend this year's annual gathering in South Africa, which has been a frequent target of his attacks.
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The troops are deployed in the capital as part of the president's crackdown on crime.
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The U.S. president whitewashed the Saudi crown prince's poor human rights record while giving him a red-carpet welcome.
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In a Senate lunch, the president was focused on a state where he remains very popular.
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