{"id":2213013,"date":"2024-04-04T13:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-broker-of-abraham-accords-speaks-with-saudi-leader\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:02:28","slug":"trump-broker-of-abraham-accords-speaks-with-saudi-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-broker-of-abraham-accords-speaks-with-saudi-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump discusses Abraham Accords with Saudi leader"},"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%2Ftrump-broker-of-abraham-accords-speaks-with-saudi-leader%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=2213013&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>Former President Trump recently engaged in a conversation with Saudi Crown Prince \u2064Mohammed bin Salman, known for his efforts to modernize Saudi Arabia\u200d by easing restrictions on women and pursuing peace with Israel. The discussion, reported by\u200c The New York Times, signifies the first known interaction between the \u2062two since Trump&#8217;s presidency.\u2063 The \u200dtiming\u200b coincides with escalating tensions in the Middle East and Trump&#8217;s upcoming golf tournament at his Doral resort in Miami.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-mohammed-bin-salman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>, former President Trump spoke recently with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the man who has attempted to modernize his country by loosening restrictions on women and likely making peace with Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Times reported Wednesday that the two leaders spoke \u201crecently,\u201d citing two people briefed on the discussion. No details about the focus of the talk have been disclosed and officials representing Trump did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The discussion is the first known time the two have had a conversation since Trump left office. It comes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East and escalating political pressure on the Biden administration over its handling of the war in Gaza. The Times report also comes ahead of Trump\u2019s Doral golf resort in Miami hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/story\/sports\/2024\/04\/03\/how-liv-golf-miami-restored-trump-doral-as-a-masters-tune-up\/73191943007\/\">tournament<\/a> with LIV Golf, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund-supported league.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump\u2019s efforts in the Middle East to bring peace to the region bore tremendous fruit with the Abraham Accords, under which the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain recognized Israeli sovereignty; Sudan and Morocco soon followed suit. Saudi Arabia was expected to follow, but after President Biden was elected, that process ground to a halt. Biden reversed course with Iran, which Trump had hit with sanctions; following that, Iran has been suspected of fomenting the Hamas\u2019 October 7 attack on Israel in order to torpedo peace negotiations between their enemies, Saudi Arabia and Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In June 2019, President Trump endorsed Prince Mohammed, calling him \u201ca friend of mine\u201d and asserting he had done \u201ca spectacular job\u201d in liberalizing his nation. He lauded Prince Mohammed for cutting off funding to terrorist groups. The two men discussed Saudi Arabia\u2019s \u201ccritical role in ensuring stability in the Middle East and global oil markets,\u201d and \u201cthe growing threat from Iran,\u201d the Trump White House stated, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-praises-saudi-crown-prince-for-doing-a-spectacular-job-11561778810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the other hand, Biden has called the prince a \u201cpariah\u201d because of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBy the standards of his gruesome neighborhood, MBS is a dizzying reformer,\u201d Andy McCarthy, the author of \u201cThe Grand Jihad,\u201d has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/10\/mythmaking-about-khashoggi-has-disastrously-backfired-on-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written<\/a>. \u201cHe has lifted social restrictions on women, integrated them in the workforce, and curbed the sharia police. He insists\u00a0that the Wahhabist Saudi Arabia of the last 40 years has been an aberration, and that he is \u2018reverting to what we followed \u2014 a moderate Islam open to the world and all religions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMoreover, until Biden came along, determined to empower the Brotherhood and the Saudis\u2019 Iranian enemies, MBS, like Sisi, was working with the United States on counterterrorism and other areas of mutual interest, while quietly building stronger security ties with Israel \u2014 the latter would have been inconceivable in the not too distant past,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reported that ex-President Trump recently conversed with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Crown Prince is known for his efforts to modernize Saudi Arabia by easing restrictions on women and seeking peace with Israel. According to sources, the discussion between the two leaders took place recently, as stated on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2213014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-04-Apr-2024-10-39-AM-7263.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-04-Apr-2024-10-39-AM-7263.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213013","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}