When President Biden lands in Saudi Arabia on Friday, it will be the first visit by a U.S. president since American intelligence agencies assessed that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman approved the operation that resulted in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
But a day ahead of his meeting with the crown prince, Biden stopped short of saying he would raise the issue directly, saying “my views on Khashoggi have been made absolutely, positively clear.”
“I have never been quiet about talking about human rights,” Biden said at a press conference. When pressed, he said that he always brings up human rights, but said that his “position on Khashoggi is so clear — if anyone doesn’t understand it in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else, then they haven’t been around for a while.”
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