Presumptive Republican presidential nominee and indicted felon Donald Trump spoke to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia recently, according to the Washington Post, as the Biden Administration attempts to walk a tightrope in negotiations for a peace deal between the kingdom and Israel, the New York Times (gift link) reports.
The topic and exact time of the discussion is unknown, and is it unknown if the pair had spoken before. The timing, however, corresponds with Trump’s need to find more than half a billion dollars for civil judgments in New York as he runs for the highest elected office in the United States.
As we know with his infamous call to Ukraine President Vlodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump is not above leveraging foreign policy for his political gains, and he may have asked Prince Mohammed bin Salman to drag his feet on any peace treaty to not give Biden a political victory before the election, as he demanded of Congressional Republicans with a border security bill.