In the Oval Office the US president dismissed the murder of the columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying: ‘things happen’
Mohammed bin Salman visit – live updates
Strongmen can have comeback stories too.
Seven years ago, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, became an international pariah after intelligence officers said to be acting on his orders abducted and murdered the Washington Post columnist and opposition critic Jamal Khashoggi. In a gruesome coda, it later emerged, the Saudi agents dismembered his body with a bone saw in order to dispose of the evidence.
On Tuesday, Prince Mohammed was met with the most extravagant reception of the second Trump administration, as the two men said they would cement $1tn in deals and made a public show of bonhomie that marked perhaps the most important bilateral relationship of this administration.
