Egypt's president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is coming to Washington next week, and he can expect a warm welcome. After all, President Donald Trump praised him during last year's election campaign as a “fantastic guy.” Following a meeting with el-Sissi in New York during the United Nations General Assembly in September, then-candidate Trump promised that under his administration, the United States “will be a loyal friend, not simply an ally, that Egypt can count on in the days and years ahead.” Unlike German Chancellor Angela Merkel, el-Sissi—who has thrown tens of thousands of political dissidents into Egypt's jails—will almost certainly get a handshake with Trump in the Oval Office on April 3.
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