Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, November 18th.

Today on Forbes, here's everything we know about Trump's financial ties to Saudi Arabia.

On October 16, 2018, one day after parroting a claim from Saudi Arabia's king

that he did not know what happened to murder journalist

Jamal Khashogshi, Donald Trump tweeted, quote, for the record, I have no financial

interests in Saudi Arabia, or Russia for that matter. Any suggestion that I have is just more fake

news, of which there is plenty. Trump may not have had any interests in Saudi Arabia at the time,

but he had done sporadic business with Saudi Arabia, offloading the Plaza Hotel to a Saudi

prince in 1995, and selling a set of condos to the Saudi government in 2001. Trump's ties to the Arab

nation grew stronger in the wake of the Khashogshi murder,

however, especially after his first term in office ended. Since then, the president and his family

struck at least nine deals with Saudi investors, pushing millions into the president's golf

properties, tens of millions into his licensing business, and billions

into private equity funds, according to Forbes' calculations.

In 2024 alone, Trump and his extended family collected an estimated $50 million from deals

connected to Saudi Arabia.

All that money may help explain why Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,

the man the U.S. intelligence community believes approved a plan to capture or kill Khashoggi,

is expected to receive a warm welcome when he returns to the White House on Tuesday.

The prince, who has said he did not order the murder, will surely want to focus on other matters.

There's much to discuss.

Military equipment, oil supplies, peace negotiations, and, of course, money, the topic that

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