In 2021, the former Saudi intelligence official Saad al-Jabri said in an interview with CBS that bin Salman mentioned to his cousin, the interior minister Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, plans to kill King Abdullah in 2014; this would allow bin Salman's father to take the throne. Al-Jabri has called bin Salman "a psychopath, killer ... with infinite resources, who poses threat to his people, to the Americans and to the planet".[252] The prince has rejected all allegations; the Saudi embassy called al-Jabri "a discredited former government official with a long history of [fabrication]".[253]