Sen. Marco Rubio says the Saudi prince has gone 'full gangster' as lawmakers decry the kingdom's abuses
Washington Retired Gen. John Abizaid's nomination hearing Wednesday to be the Trump administration's first ambassador to Saudi Arabia became a bipartisan rant about the kingdom's"gangster"-like abuses, its regional disruptions under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the potential impact on US national security interests.
Recounting a string of abuses that sounded more like a compendium of medieval thuggery, lawmakers pressed Abizaid on the kingdom's domestic repression, including lashings, electrocutions, beatings, whippings, sexual abuse, raids, the alleged detention and torture of activists and royal family members, and most recently the alleged torture of a US citizen.
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