The son of an elderly Florida man and registered Republican who is locked up in Saudi Arabia over some tweets criticizing the regime there has condemned the Biden administration for allegedly doing next to nothing to obtain his dad’s release.

Self-described Biden voter Ibrahim Almadi, 26, slammed the incumbent U.S. president for elevating election-season politics over the human rights of a U.S. citizen whom he sold out for oil and who is now subject to torture in jail.

Even pro-Biden CNN covered the outrageous imprisonment of the American citizen who was sentenced to 16 years behind bars, plus a 16-year travel ban during which he won’t be able to leave Saudi Arabia.

Ibrahim told CNN that the State Department is working on the case, but he’s seen no progress.

If Biden is unwilling to do his job, he should “get the f–k out of the White House,” the outraged son separately declared, according to the New York Post.

In this context, Ibrahim admitted that voting for Biden in 2020 was “a stupid mistake.”

“He sold my father for oil, that’s clear to us. Especially when we saw the news last week about how they requested to delay the OPEC [oil production cuts] decision a month [until after the election],” he also told the New York news outlet.

“Biden just cares about votes. He doesn’t care about my father, he doesn’t care about American citizens. He got sold for oil, but they didn’t receive the oil. So there is no father, no oil. There’s nothing — there is only shame, that is what the White House has got now,” the younger Almadi added.

“Ibrahim Almadi told The Post he was encouraged by the US government to avoid seeking publicity — only to have officials do little to help.”

Saudis humiliate and expose Biden’s alleged game on the world stage after he threatens retaliation https://t.co/4niXZ822fu pic.twitter.com/FV3Z9jxedl

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) October 13, 2022

On Monday, a Washington Post op-ed claimed that “The Saudi government has sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while inside the United States, some of which were critical of the Saudi regime. His son, speaking publicly for the first time, alleges that the Saudi government has tortured his father in prison and says that the State Department mishandled the case…Almadi is not a dissident or an activist; he is simply a project manager from Florida who decided to practice his right to free speech inside the United States.”

According to the son of Said Almadi, 72, “a State Department official allegedly laughed at Almadi’s complaint that his father, a registered Republican in Florida, would be unable to vote in the Nov. 8 midterm elections,” the New York Post noted.

That dismissive official supposedly told the young man that his father should get a paper ballot.

Biden, who shut down America’s Trump-era energy independence upon taking office, visited Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich country under the de facto rule of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), in July during which he never publicly mentioned the case.

This is outrageous. A 72-year-old U.S. citizen was sentenced to 16 years in prison and subject to torture in *Saudi Arabia* for years-old tweets he posted while in the United States. His son is accusing the State Department of mishandling the case. https://t.co/RiUEvKZ1lC pic.twitter.com/x1bFuHkQsN

— Sarah McLaughlin (@sarahemclaugh) October 18, 2022

“[W]hen Almadi came up for sentencing on Oct. 3 [2022], nobody from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh even showed up,” the Washington Post asserted.

Saudi Arabia officials arrested Saad Almadi in November 2021 while he was traveling to that country to visit family.

Ibrahim Almadi similarly told the BBC “that he believes there are double standards over Saudi Arabia, saying the U.S. would take firm action if a citizen were detained in Russia or Iran. ‘But if you’re held in Saudi Arabia, a barrel of oil is worth more than you, habibi.'”

The Biden administration has supposedly “raised Almadi’s case with the Saudi government at senior levels,” but the State Department has not, as yet, deemed Almadi “wrongfully detained,” unlike the designation applied in the Brittney Griner case.

Fox & Friends equate Biden op-ed to ‘permission slip’ before ‘begging for oil’ in trip to Saudi Arabia https://t.co/srFfha32ii

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) July 11, 2022

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