Clinton turned down Saudi visit following King Abdullah’s death in 2015

The Clinton family has a couple more reasons for embarrassment in relation to Saudi Arabia, including revelations of Hillary Clinton’s apparent unwillingness to join the US delegation to offer condolences on the death of King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz in early 2015, as revealed in the latest batch of emails published by WikiLeaks On 23 January 2015, the day King Abdullah’s death was announced, John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential election campaign, emailed a member of staff in Hillary Clinton’s office to say “assume she doesn’t want to go to Saudi.