The chief lawyer representing Saudi Arabia against allegations of its reported links to the 9/11 attacks also did not respond to a phone call requesting comment. That strategy may now backfire - not just for Trump but for the LIV Golf series, which was viewed as an effort by Saudi Arabia to rehabilitate its own image in America.Īn email and a phone call requesting comment from Trump were never answered.
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Trump reportedly welcomed the LIV Golf series this year, viewing it as a way to exact revenge against the PGA. Mike Kelly: The FBI begins to open its files on Saudi links to 9/11. 6, 2021.Įarlier: Mike Kelly As questions on Saudi links to 9/11 swirl, why is Trump hosting LIV Golf tournament? But the PGA switched to another course after Trump made bigoted remarks during his first presidential campaign in 2016 and after evidence emerged that he incited the attack on the U.S. Trump’s Bedminster club, regarded as one of the top golf courses in America, had been selected to host the PGA Tournament this year.
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But later that day, he wrote on his media platform, Truth Social, that professional golfers should "take the money now" and sign up for the LIV tour and thumb their noses at the Professional Golfers Association of America, which maintained near-total control on pro-golf events until the emergence of the LIV tour.įor Trump, the optics of any kind of protest near his golf course would be yet another blow to his efforts to rehabilitate his political career and reestablish himself as a major promoter of golf and respectable business figure. This big-money tournament, scheduled for July 29 to 31 at the Trump National Golf Club, comes amid a steady torrent of newly declassified FBI reports, showing that a dozen or more Saudi officials - including one member of the Saudi royal family - provided logistical help to 19 radicalized Islamists who carried out the 9/11 attacks.
Trump has rented out his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for another leg in the LIV Golf series, which is financed in part by $2 billion from a special so-called wealth fund controlled by the Saudi Arabian government with reported payouts to some top players of up to $150 million and undisclosed millions for Trump.
Nearly 50 miles of worn highways, rusting bridges, crowded urban neighborhoods, peaceful woodlands and quiet horse farms separates the 16-acre Manhattan postage stamp of terrorism known as Ground Zero from the sprawling 520-acre golf course in New Jersey owned by former President Donald Trump.īut in the coming days, those pieces of landscape are likely to be joined together in a deeply emotional debate over America’s deadliest terrorist attacks of Sept.
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