SAUDIS RELEASE BOMBSHELL STATEMENT SAYING BIDEN DID TRY AND DELAY OIL PRODUCTION CUT UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERMS IN DESPERATE BID TO AVOID GAS PRICES SPIKING — as White House hits back and claims Kingdom knew OPEC deal would benefit Putin.

Related: Mythmaking about Khashoggi has been a disaster for Biden. “Why are we in this mess? Because Biden, whose administration and party are rife with Brotherhood sympathizers, has made Khashoggi’s murder the focal point of the U.S.–Saudi relationship. Khashoggi was undoubtedly executed with MBS’s approval, and probably at his direction, as U.S. spy agencies believe.”

UPDATE: How to Lose Friends and Influence Over People: A decade of Obama-Biden foreign policy has broken the Middle East and America’s security order.