Trump’s Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia - a podcast by WNYC Studios

The disappearance ofWashington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggiat a Saudi Consulate has brought renewed attention to what’s been true for years: The United States — and its president — has an important, and extremely complicated, relationship with Saudi Arabia.

Trump has been doing business with Saudis for years, even braggingduring his presidential campaignabout the large amount of money Saudi buyers paid for his apartments.

"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million," he said at a rally in Mobile, Alabama, in August 2015. "Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much."

In this Trump, Inc. podcast extra, WNYC’sCharlie Hermantalks with The Washington Post’sDavid FahrentholdandJoe Nocerafrom Bloomberg Opinion about all the ways Saudi Arabia is intertwined with U.S. business interests, including those of the president himself.

 

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