President Donald Trump expressed "great confidence" in Saudi leaders on Monday amid what the kingdom describes as an ongoing anti-corruption push, writing in a tweet, "They know exactly what they are doing."
The Trump administration had been quiet about the unprecedented arrests of dozens of Saudi Arabia's most powerful princes, military leaders and ministers, which are widely being seen as a consolidation of power by the nation's 32-year-old crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.The crackdown began Saturday with little warning.
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