{"id":1514968,"date":"2022-06-14T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514968"},"modified":"2022-06-14T09:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:05:30","slug":"biden-to-visit-saudi-arabia-after-once-vowing-to-make-them-a-pariah-during-2019-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-visit-saudi-arabia-after-once-vowing-to-make-them-a-pariah-during-2019-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden To Visit Saudi Arabia After Once Vowing To Make Them A \u2018Pariah\u2019 During 2019 Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-visit-saudi-arabia-after-once-vowing-to-make-them-a-pariah-during-2019-debate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden will visit Saudi Arabia in mid-July, the White House confirmed Tuesday following weeks of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>While in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/saudi-comedians-roast-biden-harris\/\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, the president is expected to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a senior administration official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/14\/biden-meet-saudi-crown-prince-mbs\">told<\/a> the press, according to Axios. The upcoming visit is particularly notable because Biden vowed to make Saudi Arabia \u201cthe pariah that they are\u201d during a Democratic debate in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement confirming the trip, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made no mention of Biden\u2019s past promise. Instead, Jean-Pierre noted that Saudi Arabia \u201chas been a strategic partner of the United States for nearly eight decades\u201d and said Biden is looking \u201cforward to this important visit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile in Saudi Arabia, the President will\u00a0discuss\u00a0a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues,\u201d Jean-Pierre said. \u201cThese include support to the\u00a0UN-mediated truce\u00a0in Yemen,\u00a0which has led to the most peaceful period there since war began seven years ago. He will also discuss means for expanding regional economic and security cooperation, including new and promising infrastructure and climate initiatives, as well as deterring threats from Iran, advancing human rights,\u00a0and\u00a0ensuring global energy and food security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President looks forward to outlining his affirmative vision for U.S. engagement in the region over the coming months and years,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7450085\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7450085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a session of the Shura Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 20, 2019. Bandar Algaloud\/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court\/Handout via REUTERS\/File Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden\u2019s trip, which will be July 13-16, also includes a stop in Israel and the West Bank. Biden \u201cwill meet with Israeli leaders to discuss Israel\u2019s security, prosperity, and its increasing integration into the greater region,\u201d according to Jean-Pierre. At the West Bank, the president plans \u201cto consult with the Palestinian Authority\u00a0and to reiterate his strong support for a two-state solution.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/02\/joe-biden-white-house-opec-oil-drilling-production\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0White House Cheers Middle East Oil Production Despite Attacks On US Drilling)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/11\/21\/democratic-debate-joe-biden-saudi-arabia\/\">comments<\/a> about Saudi Arabia in 2019 marked a sharp <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/26\/mohammed-bin-salman-mbs-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-tim-kaine-jake-tapper-donald-trump-joe-biden\/\">pivot<\/a> from former President Barack Obama\u2019s view of the country. Biden promised he would not sell weapons to them and addressed the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would make it very clear we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them,\u201d Biden said at the time. \u201cWe were going to in fact make them pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. intelligence community <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/26\/bin-salman-saudi-khashoggi-biden-odni-report\/\">concluded<\/a> in 2021 that Saudi Arabia\u2019s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman \u201capproved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey, to capture or kill\u201d the journalist, NPR previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/25\/971215788\/biden-administration-poised-to-release-report-on-killing-of-jamal-khashoggi\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted shortly after the intelligence community\u2019s report that Biden\u2019s aim \u201cis to recalibrate our engagement with Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will visit Saudi Arabia in mid-July, the White House confirmed Tuesday following weeks of speculation.While in Saudi Arabia, the president is expected to meet Crown Prince Mohammed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}