{"id":1557809,"date":"2022-07-16T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T19:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557809"},"modified":"2022-07-16T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T19:49:27","slug":"biden-defends-meeting-with-saudi-crown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-defends-meeting-with-saudi-crown-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Defends Meeting With Saudi Crown Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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-defends-meeting-with-saudi-crown-prince%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=1557809&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>U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> on July 15 defended meeting with Saudi\u00a0Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite promising not to do so while running for president.<\/p>\n<p>The crown prince has been\u00a0accused of orchestrating the murder of\u00a0columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 after Khashoggi went into a Saudi embassy in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Biden told reporters after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-meets-with-saudi-arabias-crown-prince-amid-energy-security-concerns_4600925.html\">the meeting<\/a>, which also involved other Saudi officials, that he raised the murder of Khashoggi, who was employed by the Washington Post, at the top of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was straightforward and direct in discussing it. I made my view crystal clear. I said very straightforwardly: For an American President to be silent on an issue of human rights, is this consistent with\u2014inconsistent with who we are and who I am? I\u2019ll always stand up for our values,\u201d he said in prepared remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how bin Salman responded, Biden said that \u201che basically said he was not personally responsible for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI indicated I thought he was,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> misquoted Biden, inserting a word he did not say\u2014\u201dprobably\u201d\u2014before \u201cwas\u201d in its official transcript of Biden\u2019s briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he was not personally responsible for it and he took action against those who were responsible,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n<p>While campaigning for the presidency, Biden said that if he were elected, the United States would stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and \u201cmake them pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After taking office, Biden restricted arms sales to the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>Biden told reporters he did not regret his remark about making the nation a pariah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just\u00a0made it clear if anything occurs like that again, they\u2019ll get that response and much more,\u201d the president added later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/biden-saudi-meeting-1200x799-1.jpg\"><\/a> U.S. President Joe Biden (center L) takes part in a working session with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe Biden on July 15 defended meeting with Saudi\u00a0Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite promising not to do so while running for president. The crown prince has been\u00a0accused of orchestrating the murder of\u00a0columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 after Khashoggi went into a Saudi embassy in Turkey. Biden told reporters after the meeting, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-1557809","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\/1557809","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557809\/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=1557809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}