Trump may be boxed in by deep state in U.S., but he may have more freedom in a foreign country to hit them from behind with the help of his new found allies.
Did Trump make similar deals with Xi?: he could help Xi take down his enemies and consolidate his power which could cut off the flow of Chinese money to Trump's enemies. Another inducement to make Xi work together with Trump to take down N. Korean regime.
If. And I say if. If this Saudi News is a real cleanup or draining of the Saudi Swamp- cesspool, then it will substantially reduce political risk and make Arabia more attractive to investors.
The fermentation process has been going on for some time now.
It sounds like they are taking a Xi Jinping approach.
They share adversaries (Iran), but mostly they share a positive vision of the future.
Saudi Arabia understands that this isn't the 1970s, and that an economy based entirely around oil, with religious extremists in control, is going to lead to their destruction. They see the success of Dubai without oil, and look to that as a model. They want to use oil money while it is still coming in to build a new, diverse economy, including whole cities that are not under sharia restrictions, to get them away from oil and terrorism.
If you know the history of Italy, much of what is modern Italy used to be run by the Vatican. Eventually that broke up, and the modern arrangement of the country of Italy, plus the Vatican as a small area within it, formed. Saudi Arabia will eventually be a modern state which will surround the Islamic islands of Mecca and Medina.
President Trump fully supports that vision, and will back them up when they need it. Already it has paid off in the Gulf states confronting Qatar over terror funding, and fighting ISIS.
What President Trump gets out of the purge is that the funding from Saudi Arabia to the Bush and Clinton families, and deep state is being cut off.
You can tell Trump is pleased with the purge, because he publically offered to list Aramco, the Saudi oil company, on the NYSE, which would benefit SA's modernization vision.
Another angle...what if those princes purged were ones in which the Bush family were heavily invested?
Likely Clinton Foundation also...