President Donald Trump is welcoming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House , years after former President Joe Biden promised to make him a pariah over his ordering the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi .

The remarkable about-face comes after Biden first started softening his approach to Saudi Arabia at the start of the Russia – Ukraine war in 2022 amid the pressure the conflict put on the world’s energy supply and the kingdom’s control of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries , with the pair famously fist-bumping later that year in Jeddah.

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