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President Trump’s role in provoking last week’s assault on the Capitol has once again underscored his unabashed promotion of autocracy and undemocratic practices at home and abroad. On the global stage, nowhere is this clearer than in his administration’s proposal of two lame-duck sales of precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia worth nearly $800 million.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is the de facto leader of one of the most repressive regimes in the world. The brutal October 2018 murder of U.S.-resident journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi – carried out at the direction of Bin Salman – laid bare the predation of the young-crown prince. And yet, the Trump administration’s support for the Saudi royal remained firm. The president explicitly cited the revenues generated for firms like Raytheon from arms sales to the kingdom as a reason to back the regime.