White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday said that President Biden, who is visiting Saudi Arabia next month, believes that the country’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the 2018 operation that killed Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia in mid-July as he seeks to thaw US-Saudi relations amid record-high gas prices. He has agreed to meet with MBS on that trip despite previously seeking to sideline bin Salman.Khashoggi’s fiancee this week beseeched Biden to cancel the meeting telling him, “you are dishonoring yourself” and “putting oil over principles” by agreeing to the sitdown.
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