Biden freed as much Saudi oil as he freed U.S. prisoners held there: zilch!

"How in God's name did your guys get him to fit inside that suitcase?"

The fist bump so-called President Biden did with Muhammed bin Salman [aka Muhammed bone-Sawman] was stupid, uncalled for and insensitive, and that was a really bad visual for him. The lack of accomplishing an oil deal, for which he went to Saudi Arabia, was also not a good look. But it was Biden's impotence or imperviousness toward the two American "hostages" in the kingdom, and his failure to even address the situation, that has angered two families of the prisoners. [H/T New York  Post]

According to these families, there are at least four Americans jailed in Saudi Arabia, but the cases are not well-known as the families chose to work quietly with the US government ahead of Biden's begging visit. 

But like everything Biden pretends to do, nothing came out of his meeting and the families are now seeking to gain the public's attention about their loved ones languishing in jail.

“I’m not a [Donald] Trump person, nor a Biden person. But if Trump was the president, these people would be home … Trump would have got it done,” said  Ali al-Ahmed, whose cousin, Dr. Bader al-Ibrahim, is not allowed to leave Saudi Arabia despite facing no criminal charges.

Al-Ibrahim is an epidemiologist who was working in Saudi Arabia. He was jailed without charges from April 2019 to February 2021, and is a Shia Muslim, a minority sect of the religion of peace.

Al-Ahmed is a U.S.-based analyst of Saudi affairs and president of the Committee for American Hostages in Saudi Arabia. "We have a saying in our country . . . it is a big prison," he said. He showed The Post before-and-after photos illustrating his cousin's severe weight loss after nearly two years in jail.

The committee has identified two additional US citizens, Salah al-Haidar and Dr Walid Fatihi who cannot leave Saudi Arabia in one piece at this time. The fourth American, a 74-year-old, remains unnamed, at the request of his family in order to avoid angering the Saudi government. He has been in jail without charges since last November.

Biden's trip to the kingdom was meant to rehabilitate the relationship between the US and the Saudis after Biden called the country a "pariah state" after killing and dismembered a journalist at the Turkey consulate. Biden was in the kingdom to plead to the "Notorious MBS" to release more oil for the US because gas prices are rising faster than Hunter Biden when he's video recording with a prostitute.

“Biden didn’t move an inch for him,” said the relative of the 74-year-old who spoke with The Post on the condition of anonymity. Al-Ibrahim’s cousin Ali al-Ahmed claimed that former President Donald Trump would have been able to get the detainees home from Saudi Arabia, which of course is true.

The family member added that they had called the White House almost every day from late May until last week to try and speak with Stephanie Hallett, the NSC’s acting senior director for the Middle East and North Africa.

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The person said they were shocked when a White House switchboard operator asked at one point: “Why do you want to talk to someone who doesn’t want to talk to you?”

Al-Ahmed said he also left messages for Hallett but also was unable to connect with her.

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Biden mocked as Saudis destroy his claims

Alleged President Joe Biden went to Saudi Arabia, head bowed, hat in hand, begging like a squeegee guy on Canal Street for a little taste of their oil. But Biden may have forgotten that he recently referred the kingdom as a "pariah" nation after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [aka Mohammed bone Sawman] had a journalist killed, then dismembered and stuffed in suitcases for the bad press he wrote about him.

After the meeting ended and Biden emerged, it was obvious he got zilch from MBS, but tried to appear that he did.

After going to Saudi Arabia to beg them for more oil, Joe Biden says it will "begin shortly."
Not a word about American energy production. pic.twitter.com/cIH9fcRSrr
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch)

“We had a good discussion on ensuring global energy security and adequate oil supplies to support global economic growth,” Biden mush-mouthed. “That will begin shortly. And…I’m doing all I can to increase the supply for the United States of America, which I expect to happen. The Saudis share that urgency and based on our discussions today, I expect we’ll see further steps in the coming weeks.”

If Biden did all he can to increase the supply of oil for the USA, we would be drilling for our oil now and the Keystone Pipeline would be operating.

Biden's response was empty, like what's happening to our oil reserves. He isn't saying anything significant, and while his brain has morphed into oatmeal without raisins, his political brain cell is still functioning enough to evade the issue. He hopes there will be "further steps" and he has his fingers crossed.

Well, he might hope for further steps, but the Saudis stuck a pin in the hope balloon as they made it clear that there were no "further steps," meaning that Biden is like a used adult Depends.

After the event ended, a joint statement was issued and released by the Saudis. It never said anything about oil supply increases. All it said was that Saudi Arabia and the United States “renewed their commitment towards the stability of global energy markets” and that the US “welcomed the kingdom’s commitment to support balance in the global oil market.”

The Saudi reading of the Biden-MbS meeting is more circumspect. Adel Al-Jubeir, a top Saudi diplomat briefing afterward, said that Riyadh will produce more oil **if it sees a shortage** (that’s a long standing Saudi policy). And he indicated Riyadh will work via OPEC+ | #OOTT

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) July 15, 2022

It's sad when Americans believe the Saudis over our own so-called president.

Basically, all that Biden was doing was play acting in order to convince us that he was on the case and was willing to walk back everything negative he said about the Saudis after they killed Jamal Khashoggi.

In other words, this was largely just a performance by Biden to convince us he was doing something, and he was willing to throw all his prior words about Saudi Arabia and MBS away in the process. He was even mocked by the fiancee of the late Jamal Kashoggi, but his widow had something to say about that:

Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancé reacts to Biden’s meeting with MBS. https://t.co/UJi7AA1iTd
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 15, 2022

Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal — who previously served as head of Saudi intelligence and an ambassador to the U.S. — told CNBC that President Biden was a “much-diminished president” compared with when he was inaugurated in January 2021.

“As an example, on energy issues, he came in with a policy to stop completely fossil fuel usage not only in the United States, but worldwide,” Prince Turki said. Now, Biden has a need for fossil fuel, “not only because of the Ukraine war, but also because of U.S. policy itself that shut down pipelines and stopped issuing….discovery of oil on U.S. soil,” Turki said.

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Wow! It looks like Joe Biden isn't getting the respect the Democrats used to think he deserves. Let's face it--he's no Donald Trump, and not certainly no Ron DeSantis.

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