Washington — Survivors and members of the family who misplaced family members within the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults criticized former President Donald Trump for internet hosting the Saudi-funded LIV Golf collection for a match at his Bedminster, New Jersey, membership later this month and urged him cease doing enterprise with the Saudi kingdom.
In a letter to Trump despatched on Sunday, the family, who’re members of the group 9/11 Justice, mentioned the previous president’s determination to host the LIV Golf Invitational at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership Bedminster introduced them “deep ache and anger” given Saudi Arabia’s position within the 2001 assaults that killed their members of the family.
Citing feedback Trump made throughout an look on Fox Information in 2016, and his promise to 9/11 households at a Sept. 11, 2019, meeting on the White Home to declassify FBI documents associated to the assaults, the signees wrote they “merely can not perceive how you may agree to just accept cash from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s golf league to host their match at your golf course, and to take action within the shadows of Floor Zero in New Jersey, which misplaced over 700 residents in the course of the assaults.”
“It’s incomprehensible to us, Mr. Trump, {that a} former president of the USA would solid our family members apart for private monetary acquire,” they mentioned.
The 9/11 Justice members requested to fulfill with the previous president and pushed him to rethink his enterprise relationship with LIV Golf. A few of households and survivors of the 9/11 terror assaults are suing Saudi Arabia and pushing to know if the Saudi authorities offered support to the hijackers.
The match at Trump’s Bedminster golf membership is scheduled to happen July 29 to July 31, and his firm promoted the event on Twitter on Monday. The LIV Golf collection will shut its season with a group championship on the former president’s Miami course, Trump Nationwide Doral Golf Membership, in late October. The league didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about Sunday’s letter.
Along with condemning the previous president over his ties to the LIV Golf collection, they protested a June invitational outdoors Portland, Oregon, which was the tour’s first match within the U.S.
Financed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and led by retired skilled golfer Greg Norman, LIV Golf has been on the heart of controversy because it seeks to position itself as an alternative to the PGA tour.
The brand new collection has attracted a number of well-known gamers, together with Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka, with its multi-million-dollar contracts and match purses.
