PBS debuted its latest Frontline documentary on Tuesday entitled The Crown Prince & The President, which sought to examine the relationship between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Towards the end, correspondent Martin Smith observed that October 7 ended any real possibility of Trump’s big goal of Israeli-Saudi normalization and not only suggested Special Envoy Jared Kushner and the Abraham Accords were to blame but that such criticism is actually conservative. One of the people Martin interviewed was President Biden's ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2023-2025, Michael Ratney. As Ratney tells it, even an autocratic de facto ruler of an absolute monarchy needs to consider public opinion, which led MBS to end normalization efforts with Israel as a result of its response to October 7. That led Smith to claim, “Some observers put the blame on Kushner's Abraham Accords.”   PBS's new Frontline documentary on Trump and Saudi Arabia tries to pass off blaming the Jared Kushner and the Abraham Accords for October 7 as a conservative opinion by having Curt Mills say "I don't think the Abraham Accords happen without Jared Kushner. But if there was any… pic.twitter.com/8waFRGGe2V — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 1, 2026   In a voiceover, Ratney added, “I think the clear flaw from the beginning of the Abraham Accords was it did nothing to settle the fate of the Palestinian people.” A second person blaming Kushner for October 7 was Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative. Mills claimed, “I don't think the Abraham Accords happen without Jared Kushner. But if there was any leading intellectual critique of them, it was that they abandoned Palestine. They abandoned the Palestinian people.” Sitting down with Trump’s former deputy national security advisor for Middle Eastern affairs, Victoria Coates, Martin tried to give credence to Mill’s claim, “Curt Mills of American Conservative laid the events of October 7 at the feet of Jared Kushner.” Coates reacted with an appropriate amount of revulsion, “Well, that's completely inconsistent with my experience with Jared. Jared is sincerely interested in the future of the Palestinian people and worked hard to come up with a deal that would be satisfactory because, you know, in his mind, to my understanding, this is also the best thing for Israel.” No matter what any left-wing college campus agitator, jihadi terrorist, or allegedly conservative commentator says, October 7 is Hamas’s fault. To lay the blame “at the feet” of anybody else is obnoxious and repulsive. Here is a transcript for the June 30 show: PBS Frontline: The Crown Prince & The President 6/30/2026 11:15 PM ET MARTIN SMITH: Some observers put the blame on Kushner's Abraham Accords. MICHAEL RATNEY: I think the clear flaw from the beginning of the Abraham Accords was it did nothing to settle the fate of the Palestinian people. CURT MILLS: I don't think the Abraham Accords happen without Jared Kushner. But if there was any leading intellectual critique of them, it was that they abandoned Palestine. They abandoned the Palestinian people. SMITH: Curt Mills of American Conservative laid the events of October 7 at the feet of Jared Kushner. VICTORIA COATES: Well, that's completely inconsistent with my experience with Jared. Jared is sincerely interested in the future of the Palestinian people and worked hard to come up with a deal that would be satisfactory because, you know, in his mind, to my understanding, this is also the best thing for Israel.