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In the Oval Office, the crown prince announced that the kingdom would increase a planned investment into America’s economy from $600 billion to $1 trillion.

The U.S. president said the crown prince “knew nothing about” Khashoggi’s death, contradicting the CIA, which at the time assessed that the royal orchestrated the killing.

Still another: The crown prince of Saudi Arabia wouldn’t have appeared this week in Washington with the U.S. president and spoken, however cautiously, of one day normalizing relations with Israel.

Since the rise to power of Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman, cinemas have reopened, women are allowed to drive and foreign tourists are being welcomed.

A US intelligence report made public in 2021 - under President Joe Biden's administration - determined that the crown prince had approved of a plan to "capture or kill" Khashoggi in Istanbul.