Former President Trump says the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who faces unrelenting criticism over his government’s human rights record, is a “great guy.”
“I think it’s fine right now,” Trump said of the U.S.-Saudi relationship in a recent interview with Al Arabiya. “When I was president, it was great with capital letters. G-R-E-A-T, great.”
“And so much respect for the King, so much respect for Mohammed, who is doing great. I mean, he’s really a visionary. He’s done things that nobody else would have even thought about,” he continued.
In the interview with Al Arabiya’s Washington Bureau Chief Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, Trump later added that the crown prince is a “great guy” who is “respected all over the world.”
Earlier this year, the Trump Organization announced it would be building a Trump Tower building in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The building is the Trump Organization’s first development in the country and is in partnership with a Saudi-owned developer.
The development may resurface concerns about Trump’s conflicts of interest if he is reelected in November.
The Saudi government has also invested $2 billion with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The crown prince said last year that Kushner’s private equity fund would not be affected by a second Trump term.
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