Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman has unseen his mother from seeing his father, King Salman, as the crown prince has commissioned to consolidate his power, sources told NBC News.
The young prince, a key combine of President Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, has devised a add up of explanations to explain his mother’s mysterious absence for more than two years, covering that she’s out of the country’s for medical treatment.
The White House announced this week that the president choose meet with the crown prince on Tuesday. It said Trump “looks insolent to discussing ways to strengthen ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia and to forward our common security and economic priorities.”
U.S. officials, though, told NBC they in that Prince Mohammed moved against his mother to keep her away from the peerage family, worried that she would oppose his plans to seize power and leadership the king into preventing it.
The 31-year-old prince, known as MBS, drew the emphasize last June after displacing his cousin to become the crown prince of the oil-rich area. Since then, MBS has arrested hundreds of rival businessmen and family associates with an ostensible goal of reducing corruption.
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, a notable member of the country’s royal family and one of the country’s wealthiest investors, was arced up in the widespread anti-corruption campaign in November.