A report on Mike Pompeo, Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump

Official portrait, 2018
Official portrait, 2017
U.S. congressional delegation at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2014
Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964
Official portrait of Mike Pompeo as CIA Director
Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan
World War II veterans being honored at Bastille Day celebrations on July 13, 2017
Anthropomorphic stela (4th millennium BC), sandstone, 57x27 cm, from El-Maakir-Qaryat al-Kaafa (National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh)
Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan
Pompeo with Kim Jong-un
Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City
Pompeo with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 29, 2018
The "Worshipping Servant" statue (2500 BC), above 1 m in height, is much taller than any possible Mesopotamian or Harappan models. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Korea.
Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower
Pompeo with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman on October 18, 2018
Qaṣr Al-Farīd, the largest of the 131 rock-cut monumental tombs built from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD, with their elaborately ornamented façades, at the extensive ancient Nabatean archaeological site of Hegra located in the area of Al-'Ula within Al Madinah Region in the Hejaz. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008.
Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Pompeo with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Colossal statue from Al-'Ula in the Hejaz (6th–4th century BC), it followed the standardized artistic sculpting of the Lihyanite kingdom, the original statue was painted with white
Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009
Pompeo and Vladimir Putin met in Sochi on May 14, 2019.
At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) covered 11100000 km2 and 62 million people (29 per cent of the world's population), making it one of the largest empires in history in both area and proportion of the world's population. It was also larger than any previous empire in history.
Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000
Pompeo with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020
The Battle of Badr, 13 March 624 CE
Trump speaking at CPAC 2011
Pompeo with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko in Kyiv, January 31, 2020
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, the founding father and first king of Saudi Arabia
Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.
Pompeo with General Austin S. Miller in Kabul on June 25, 2019
Political map of Saudi Arabia
2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227
Pompeo departs the Department of State on January 20, 2021
Map of Saudi Arabian administrative regions and roadways
Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017
President Trump, joined by Pompeo and Netanyahu behind, signs the proclamation recognizing Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights, March 25, 2019.
Map of oil and gas pipelines in the Middle-East
Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts
Pompeo and Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping
King Fahd with US President Ronald Reagan and future US President Donald Trump in 1985. The US and Saudi Arabia supplied money and arms to the anti-Soviet mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan.
Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017
Pompeo at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.
As many as 500 princes, government ministers, and business people, including Prince Fahd bin Abdullah, were arrested by Saudi Arabian authorities as part of the 2017 Saudi Arabian purge
Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church
Congressman Pompeo at FreedomWorks New Fair Deal rally outside the U.S. Capitol, April 2013
Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al ash-Sheikh with Bogdan Borusewicz in the Polish Senate, 26 May 2014
Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.
Mike Pompeo (center) with wife Susan and son Nicholas in 2018
Verses from the Quran. The Quran is the official constitution of the country and a primary source of law. Saudi Arabia is unique in enshrining a religious text as a political document.
Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, 21 May 2017
Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.
U.S. President Barack Obama meets King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, July 2014
Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia
Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is named after a Saudi king. The kingdom is a strong ally of Pakistan. WikiLeaks claimed that Saudis are "long accustomed to having a significant role in Pakistan's affairs".
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Qatar in September 2020
Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir with then British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (now Prime Minister) in London, 16 October 2016
Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit, June 2018
Major Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict locations
Putin and Trump shaking hands at the G20 Osaka summit, June 2019
Flag of Al-Qaeda, a transnational terrorist group formed by Osama bin Laden, a Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni and Syrian extraction who was stripped of his Saudi passport in 1994.
Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.
"The Saudi pilots training in Italy 1935"—a scene from 'Our Eagles', one of four video wall shows made for the Royal Saudi Air Force Museum
Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020
Saudi soldiers from the First Airborne Brigade.
Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic.
Deera Square, central Riyadh. It is a former site of public be-headings.
Trump boards helicopter for COVID-19 treatment on October 2, 2020
Saudi Arabia topography
Trump discharged on October 5, 2020, from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Harrat Khaybar seen from the International Space Station. Saudi Arabia is home to more than 2000 dormant volcanoes. Lava fields in Hejaz, known locally by their Arabic name of harrat (the singular is harrah), form one of Earth's largest alkali basalt regions, covering some 180000 km2, an area greater than the state of Missouri.
Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment, December 18, 2019
A proportional representation of Saudi Arabia exports, 2019
Trump displaying the front page of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal by the Senate
Office of Saudi Aramco, the world's most valuable company and the main source of revenue for the state
Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona
The hajj is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city for Muslims.
2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306
King Abdullah Financial Center is one of the largest investment centres in the Middle East, located in Riyadh
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signing the second impeachment of Trump
Al-Hasa is known for its palm trees and dates. Al-Hasa has over 30 million palm trees which produce over 100 thousand tons of dates every year.
Trump speaks at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2021.
Saudi Arabia population density (people per km2)
Trump talking to the press, March 2017
Laboratory buildings at KAUST
Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and CNN compiled data on "false or misleading claims" (orange background), and "false claims" (violet foreground), respectively.
The Al-Yamamah Private University in Riyadh
UIS literacy rate Saudi Arabia population, 15 plus, 1990–2015
Historical development of life expectancy in Saudi Arabia
Supplicating pilgrim at Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām (The Sacred Mosque) in Mecca. The Kaaba is the cubic building in front of the pilgrim.
Non-Muslims are prohibited from entering the Islamic holy city of Mecca
Sarah Attar is a track and field athlete who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics as one of the first two female Olympians representing Saudi Arabia.
The Masjid al-Haram is the holiest Islamic site, located in Mecca
The Mosque of the Prophet in Medina containing the tomb of Muhammad
King Abdullah practising falconry, a traditional pursuit in the country
Arabic coffee is a traditional beverage in Arabian cuisine
Uruguay – Saudi Arabia match at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
The 3000-year-old ancient historical city of Dumat al-Jandal in Al Jawf Province
The old city of Jeddah
Jabal Sawda ({{convert|3000|m|ft|abbr=on|disp=or}}) located in the 'Asir subrange of the Sarat Mountains
Abha City, located {{convert|2270|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level in the 'Asir Region
Beach promenade in Al-Wajh
Dhi 'ain village located in Al Bahah Province
The desert of Al-Rub' Al-Khali (The Empty Quarter)
Saad Khader from left and right Mohammad Al-Ali in 1979

Michael Richard Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served under President Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021.

- Mike Pompeo

In February 2017, Pompeo traveled to Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

- Mike Pompeo

On 20 May 2017, President Donald Trump and King Salman signed a series of letters of intent for Saudi Arabia to purchase arms from the United States totalling US$110 billion immediately and $350 billion over 10 years.

- Saudi Arabia

In the wake of Jamal Khashoggi's murder in October 2018, the US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and the US defence secretary Jim Mattis called for a ceasefire in Yemen within 30 days followed by UN-initiated peace talks.

- Saudi Arabia

Trump actively supported the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen against the Houthis and in 2017 signed a $110 billion agreement to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, In 2018, the USA provided limited intelligence and logistical support for the intervention.

- Donald Trump

Two of Trump's 15 original Cabinet members were gone within 15 months: Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was forced to resign in September 2017 due to excessive use of private charter jets and military aircraft, and Trump replaced Tillerson as Secretary of State with Mike Pompeo in March 2018 over disagreements on foreign policy.

- Donald Trump
Official portrait, 2018

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Detainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017

Xinjiang internment camps

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The Xinjiang internment camps, officially called vocational education and training centers (职业技能教育培训中心) by the government of China, are internment camps operated by the government of Xinjiang and the Chinese Communist Party Provincial Standing Committee.

The Xinjiang internment camps, officially called vocational education and training centers (职业技能教育培训中心) by the government of China, are internment camps operated by the government of Xinjiang and the Chinese Communist Party Provincial Standing Committee.

Detainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017
Number of re-education related government procurement bids in Xinjiang, 2016–2018, according to the Jamestown Foundation
Pages from the China Cables
Camp locations identified by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Australian Strategic Policy Institute
People of Xinjiang protesting against the human rights violations in Bern, Switzerland
NPR reported that "Kazakhstan and its neighbors in the mostly Muslim region of Central Asia that have benefited from Chinese investment aren't speaking up for the Muslims inside internment camps in China".
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has defended China's re-education camps.

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On 28 August 2018, U.S. senator Marco Rubio and 16 other members of Congress urged the United States to impose sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act against Chinese officials who are responsible for human rights abuses in Xinjiang. In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, they called for the sanctions on Chen Quanguo who is the current Communist Party Secretary of the Xinjiang (the highest post in an administrative unit of China) and six other Chinese officials and two businesses that make surveillance equipment in Xinjiang.

In June 2020, Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton claimed that President Donald Trump told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that China's decision to detain Uyghurs in re-education camps was "exactly the right thing to do".