• Jessvj93@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    And also handing over information from US spies on dissidents, even if they were family that just opposed him, so Mohammed Bin Salman could trap them in a hotel and have them all tortured and murdered till there was enough alignment to him.

    "The Intercept also reported that Kushner’s information on Saudi royals not loyal to MBS was contained in the President’s Daily Brief, a document presented to the President every morning. Kushner lost his access to the document earlier this year when new security clearance rules were instituted.

    Eager to consolidate power and rein in the sprawling orbit of the Saudi royal family and aristocratic class, Prince bin Salman listened intently and a week later cracked down on corruption in the country by imprisoning more than 200 members of the country’s ruling class inside the confines of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, charging each with corruption"