Sanders slams Biden's Saudi vacation, suggests president should not find 'warm marriage with a dictatorship'

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday joined the refrain of criticism versus President Biden’s journey to Saudi Arabia, expressing the U.S. should not be warming up to a brutal dictatorship just mainly because of the world-wide oil crisis.

During an visual appearance on ABC’s "This 7 days," Sanders was asked by co-anchor Martha Raddatz whether Biden should really have made the vacation to Saudi Arabia, in which the president participated in talks with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman pertaining to electrical power production and human rights.

"Should Biden have long gone?" Raddatz questioned Sanders.

"No, I never believe so," Sanders responded. "You have the chief of that place who was included in the murder of a Washington Article journalist. I you should not consider that that sort of federal government really should be rewarded with a pay a visit to by the president of the United States."

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) comes before President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in the Household chamber of the U.S. Capitol April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC.  ((Picture by Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images))

"Glimpse, you obtained a family members that is really worth $100 billion, which crushes democracy, which treats girls as third-class citizens, which murders and imprisons its opponents," he added. "And if this state thinks in something, we imagine in human legal rights, we think in democracy, and I just really don't imagine that we ought to be keeping a heat romantic relationship with a dictatorship like that."

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Sanders reported that alternatively of visiting Saudi Arabia, Biden need to be ramping up his pressure on U.S. oil organizations to prevent "ripping off the American folks."

US President Joe Biden (L) being welcomed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) at Alsalam Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 15, 2022.  (Picture by Royal Court of Saudi Arabia / Handout/Anadolu Agency by using Getty Images)

"If you're searching at the outrageously high expense of gas at the pumps correct now, one of the matters we've acquired to search at is the fact that while Americans are now paying $4.50, $4.80 for a gallon of fuel, the oil firm income in the very last quarter have been terribly large," Sanders claimed. "And I come about to believe that we've acquired to notify the oil corporations to halt ripping off the American men and women and if they do not, we really should impose a windfall income tax on them."

Biden was broadly criticized by the media and associates of his individual social gathering right after he greeted the crown prince with a fist bump in its place of a handshake on Friday, in spite of previously vowing to make the place a "pariah" for human rights abuses.

U.S. President Joe Biden, center still left, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, centre, get there for the household picture throughout the "GCC+3" (Gulf Cooperation Council) assembly at a resort in Saudi Arabia's Purple Sea coastal city of Jeddah Saturday, July 16, 2022.  (Mandel Ngan/Pool Image by means of G3 Box News)

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The Biden administration declassified a report last yr blaming the crown prince for approving the procedure to capture or destroy journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to The Washington Put up who was killed in 2018 by Saudi security officials. 

Biden claimed he brought up Khashoggi’s murder through his conversation with the crown prince, but the Saudi Arabian overseas minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, denied listening to the dialogue.