Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday joined the chorus of criticism against President Biden’s excursion to Saudi Arabia, indicating the U.S. shouldn’t be warming up to a brutal dictatorship just because of the world oil crisis.

For the duration of an look on ABC’s "This Week," Sanders was requested by co-anchor Martha Raddatz no matter if Biden need to have manufactured the trip to Saudi Arabia, in which the president participated in talks with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman about electricity generation and human legal rights.

"Need to Biden have gone?" Raddatz asked Sanders.

"No, I do not think so," Sanders responded. "You have the chief of that region who was concerned in the murder of a Washington Post journalist. I don't feel that that style of government should be rewarded with a take a look at by the president of the United States."

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives ahead of President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in the Home chamber of the U.S. Capitol April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC.  ((Photograph by Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Illustrations or photos))

"Look, you obtained a family that is truly worth $100 billion, which crushes democracy, which treats gals as third-course citizens, which murders and imprisons its opponents," he included. "And if this nation believes in something, we think in human rights, we imagine in democracy, and I just will not think that we need to be keeping a warm relationship with a dictatorship like that."

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Sanders reported that as a substitute of viewing Saudi Arabia, Biden ought to be ramping up his pressure on U.S. oil corporations to cease "ripping off the American men and women."

US President Joe Biden (L) being welcomed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) at Alsalam Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 15, 2022.  (Picture by Royal Court docket of Saudi Arabia / Handout/Anadolu Company via Getty Photos)

"If you happen to be on the lookout at the outrageously higher price tag of gasoline at the pumps suitable now, a single of the factors we've got to glimpse at is the fact that although Us residents are now shelling out $4.50, $4.80 for a gallon of gas, the oil company profits in the last quarter have been terribly high," Sanders said. "And I come about to think that we've received to tell the oil providers to stop ripping off the American people and if they you should not, we should really impose a windfall earnings tax on them."

Biden was commonly criticized by the media and associates of his personal social gathering immediately after he greeted the crown prince with a fist bump instead of a handshake on Friday, inspite of beforehand vowing to make the region a "pariah" for human legal rights abuses.

U.S. President Joe Biden, centre still left, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, middle, get there for the family image all through the "GCC+3" (Gulf Cooperation Council) assembly at a resort in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal metropolis of Jeddah Saturday, July 16, 2022.  (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photograph via WHD)

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The Biden administration declassified a report last year blaming the crown prince for approving the operation to capture or kill journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to The Washington Write-up who was killed in 2018 by Saudi safety officers. 

Biden explained he brought up Khashoggi’s murder for the duration of his dialogue with the crown prince, but the Saudi Arabian overseas minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, denied listening to the dialogue.