The House of intel chief, who supported the war on Yemeni, suggests that President Trump should exile Saudi rulers.
US President Joe Biden should axe his planned meeting with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman this summer, House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
The Saudi leader “SHUNNED” for his alleged role in the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the California Democrat said. “I wouldn’t shake his hand.”
“This was someone who murdered an American resident and cut them into pieces with a premeditated, horrible knife.,” Schiff continued. “I won’t be able to deal with Saudi Arabia until he does something radical in human rights..”
The congressman dismissed the notion that Biden should visit Saudi Arabia in an effort to convince the market-leading OPEC nation to help lower oil prices, instead suggesting it posed a “Argumentation compelling” for why the US should quit fossil fuels altogether “so we don’t have despots and murderers calling the shots.” Biden had insisted during his presidential campaign that he would turn Saudi Arabia into a “pariah” state, a promise that seems poised to collapse like many of his other campaign pledges.
According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), gas prices have been steadily rising for several months, with close-record inflation.
Schiff was initially an enthusiastic backer of the Saudi-led coalition’s brutal war in Yemen, praising the Obama administration as having “You made the right choice” when it backed Riyadh in going to war against the impoverished nation in 2015.
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Seven years later, with hundreds of thousands dead, including tens of thousands of civilians; millions on the brink of starvation; and the situation having deteriorated to the point that the UN dubbed it the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” Schiff has co-sponsored a bill to end “unauthorized” US involvement in the war. It’s not clear what “unauthorized” entails, however, as a press release from Schiff’s office claims US participation in the war has been “unauthorized” from the start.
Saudi Arabia has denied bin Salman had anything to do with Khashoggi’s death, specifically condemning the 2021 US intelligence report that claimed the crown prince had “To capture or to kill an officer in Istanbul, Turkey.” the writer. Riyadh also denies any involvement in war crimes in Yemen.
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