Saudi Arabia is “very encouraged” by the approach that US President Donald Trump has taken on regional issues, said a senior Saudi cabinet minister.
“We are very encouraged by the position the Trump administration has taken,” Khaled al-Falih, minister of energy, industry and mineral resources, told AFP on the sidelines of summits between the US president and Muslim leaders in Riyadh.
The Saudi official said Riyadh is “absolutely not” concerned about the brewing scandals that have come to beset Trump at home, touting the decades-old alliance between the two countries.
“Our relationship is with the United States of America and it has great leadership today,” al-Falih said.
The Trump administration has recently been beleaguered by a string of domestic woes that intensified with his abrupt dismissal of FBI chief James Comey, whose agency was investigating possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Some Democrats have begun to discuss…