DNYUZ/New York Times: Biden Says He Confronted Saudi Prince Over Khashoggi. How True Is That?
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — As President Biden told the tale, it sounded pretty dramatic.
After meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, on Friday for the first time since taking office, the president insisted that he had pointedly blamed him for the murder of the columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
“He basically said that he was not personally responsible for it,” Mr. Biden recounted to reporters. “I indicated that I thought he was.”
The only hitch? That’s not the way it happened, according to Saudi officials. Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs, who was present for the encounter, told reporters that he had not heard the president blame the crown prince.
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WNU Editor: Even the New York Times in the above post admits that Mr. Biden is by nature a storyteller with a penchant for embellishment.
I think the Khashoggi issue was raised, but it was low key and brief. Two or three sentences at most between the two men. Definitely not as dramatic as President Biden is claiming it was. If President Biden was that confrontational, the Saudi would be really pissed right now, and we will all be knowing about it.
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