PBS debuted its latest Frontline documentary on Tuesday entitled The Crown Prince & The President, which sought to examine the relationship between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Towards the end, correspondent Martin Smith observed that October 7 ended any real possibility of Trump’s big goal of Israeli-Saudi normalization and not only suggested Special Envoy Jared Kushner and the Abraham Accords were to blame but that such criticism is actually conservative.
One of the people Martin interviewed was President Biden’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2023-2025, Michael Ratney. As Ratney tells it, even an autocratic de facto ruler of an absolute monarchy needs to consider public opinion, which led MBS to end normalization efforts with Israel as a result of its response to October 7. That led Smith to claim, “Some observers put the blame on Kushner’s Abraham Accords.”
PBS’s new Frontline documentary on Trump and Saudi Arabia tries to pass off blaming the Jared Kushner and the Abraham Accords for October 7 as a conservative opinion by having Curt Mills say “I don’t think the Abraham Accords happen without Jared Kushner. But if there was any… pic.twitter.com/8waFRGGe2V
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 1, 2026
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