The president’s eldest son, the world’s richest man and dozens of prominent tech, media and sports figures gathered Tuesday night at the White House for a black-tie dinner in honor of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who previously had been labeled a “pariah” overhis role in the 2018 killing of a Washington Post opinion columnist.

Many tech and Wall Street executives sought to distance themselves from the desert kingdom seven years ago when Jamal Khashoggi was dismembered in a Saudi Consulate in Turkey - a killing U.S. intelligence officials concluded Mohammed had ordered. But as candles flickered and a piano played in the White House’s East Room on Tuesday, leaders of the United States’ biggest companies signaled they were open for business with Saudi Arabia.

The formal dinne

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