Saudi Arabia’s vaunted brigade of American influencers aren’t likely to be of much help as the country tries to contain the fallout from the disappearance of a dissident journalist, according to a former senior adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign.

“This is a government-to-government discussion,” said Jason Osborne, who co-founded a foreign government lobbying firm in 2017. “I don’t think there’s anything that a lobbyist could do to smooth this out.”