9/11 Justice Group slate Donald Trump as ‘utter shame’ for internet hosting Saudi-backed LIV Golf Sequence

Former President Donald Trump has been accused of ‘dishonoring America’ by internet hosting an occasion of the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Sequence by the 9/11 Justice Group.

The third occasion of the controversial LIV Golf Sequence will probably be held at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership Bedminster, New Jersey, this week. 

The previous President’s programs will play host to not one however two occasions within the sequence with the ultimate match going down at his course in Doral, Florida, in October. 

The occasion at Bedminster this week is bringing politics to the fairways with Trump being slammed for his involvement with the Saudi-backed sequence by the households of the victims of the 9/11 assaults.  

The breakaway group has already confronted intense scrutiny and backlash for its ties to the Saudi Arabia authorities. 

LIV Golf is funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and with profitable offers the sequence has attracted among the largest stars.

Though the Saudi authorities has not been instantly linked to the 9/11 assaults, 15 of the 19 hijackers have been Saudi nationals. 

Brett Eagleson, President of 9/11 Justice and son of John Bruce Eagleson, who was murdered within the South Tower of the World Commerce Middle, has slated the previous President for internet hosting the occasion. 

Eagleson informed Sportsmail: ‘We’re simply completely appalled by this resolution. We’re actually upset and annoyed. We expect that Trump’s resolution to interact with the Saudis and, even worse, to have this match within the shadows of Floor Zero is horrifying. 

‘This match in being held within the yard of the place 750 folks from the state of New Jersey have been murdered. This match is being held lower than 50 miles from the place persons are standing trial as we communicate for his or her position in 9/11. 

‘We now have publicly declassified paperwork from President Biden from the manager order final yr that present a minimum of a dozen Saudi authorities officers aided and abetted the 9/11 hijackers, considered one of which was working for the Saudi intelligence company.’

Members of the 9/11 Justice group whose family members have been killed within the terrorist assaults in 2001 demonstrated outdoors LIV Golf’s earlier occasion in Portland and are set to do the identical in New Jersey this week.

The group can even maintain a press convention on Friday – the primary day of the occasion – down the road from the course to focus on the Saudi authorities’s position within the 9/11 terrorist assaults, the Saudi efforts to ‘sportswash’ their checkered human rights document and what the group says is the complicity of gamers to take the cash and look the opposite means. 

Eagleson recounted a 2019 assembly with the previous President on the White Home alongside his mother and 11 different relations. 

He claimed that Trump stated he ‘was going to declassify the paperwork, assist us and convey us justice’ leaving them elated, just for former Legal professional Common William Barr to invoke the State Secrets and techniques Privilege 24 hours later making the paperwork fully categorised and defending the Saudis. 

When requested what he would say to Trump if he had the possibility to speak to him once more, Eagleson replied: ‘I might ask him, realizing what you recognize in regards to the Saudis and 9/11, why are you placing them earlier than the households of people who grieved a lot, why are you placing them earlier than America?

Eagleson claimed a consultant for Trump personally known as him final week in response to a letter the 9/11 Justice group despatched relaying its ‘deep ache and anger’ over the choice to host two LIV golf occasions.

They reportedly stated that Trump had learn the letter, and informed Eagleson ‘the President had acquired my letter and that he would bear in mind all of the signatures and that 9/11 may be very close to to him, is such an essential situation and that we’re all in his coronary heart and thoughts’. 

Eagleson slammed the response as underwhelming as he stated: ‘Those phrases ring hole as a result of if it was so essential to him why wouldn’t he name me personally? Why did he have an aide name me? 

‘They only repeated the identical speaking factors, this aide had no solutions for why the President was persevering with to interact with the Saudis regardless of realizing what he is aware of. They have been pre-scripted speaking factors and I believe that it was simply an compulsory name.’

‘I made a cope with them,’ Trump stated of the LIV executives, through CNN. ‘They’re excellent folks. They’re very tremendous folks. 

‘Greg Norman’s been a complete gentleman, you recognize, and he is needed to do that for years and now he has the proper backers as a result of, you recognize, [the Saudi money] is limitless. 

‘They’ll do the job proper. I believe once you put up first-place prize cash for $6 or $7million, I believe lots of people are gonna be displaying up, to be trustworthy with you.’ 

Though Trump describes Norman, the face of the sequence, as a ‘gentleman’, the Australian has come below hearth for his involvement within the group, particularly for claiming ‘everybody makes errors’ when quizzed over the 2018 homicide of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 

Trump has not solely agreed to host two of LIV Golf’s occasions however has additionally inspired gamers to hitch the breakaway match, together with American stars Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau. 

On his Fact Social web site, Trump urged present gamers on the PGA Tour to leap ship final week. 

‘All of these golfers that stay ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its totally different kinds, pays an enormous value when the inevitable merger with LIV comes, and also you get nothing however an enormous ‘thanks’ from PGA officers who’re making Tens of millions of {Dollars} a yr,’ Trump wrote. 

‘When you do not take the cash now, you’re going to get nothing after the merger takes place, and solely say how good the unique signees have been.’ 

The highest American gamers who’ve defected to the Saudi-backed sequence have confronted intense criticism from 9/11 teams for his or her involvement within the sequence. 

Nonetheless, Eagleson believes it isn’t solely the American gamers who needs to be ashamed. 

He stated: ‘It’s not simply the American gamers however everybody everywhere in the world is aware of the atrocities that they [the Saudis] commit. 

‘It’s a shame to girls, it’s a shame to homosexuals, it’s a shame to anybody who believes in good. It’s not simply 9/11, let’s speak about how they oppress girls, let’s speak about public executions. 

‘For folks like Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to say they’re simply offering for his or her households, nicely my dad was simply offering for his household when he went to work that day and bought blown away. These feedback are simply including gas to the fireplace and my recommendation to them can be to simply shut up.

‘Nevertheless it all begins with 9/11 and our nation has by no means held the dominion accountable so that they assume they’ve a free cross to function with immunity.’

Trump’s ties to the Saudis will not be a brand new emergence, nonetheless. He spent 4 years cozying as much as the dominion and the primary overseas go to of his presidency was to Saudi Arabia in 2017. 

All through his presidency, Trump additionally backed Saudi Arabia’s stance in opposition to Iran and inspired its buy of US-made weapons. 

Final yr, the wealth fund, led by the Saudi crown prince, additionally reportedly injected $2billion into the corporate of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in accordance with the New York Instances.

The Bedminster course was as a result of play host to the 2022 PGA Championship however the PGA of America withdrew the occasion within the wake of the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. 

It had been the primary time considered one of his 19 programs had been chosen to host a males’s main golf match and for Trump it represented the second he had lastly ‘made it’ within the {golfing} world. 

Nonetheless, the triumph was ripped away from him with the PGA of America’s board of administrators taking the choice to strip Bedminster of the key the day after the Capitol Hill riots. 

In response to POLITICO, Trump Golf entered right into a authorized dispute with the PGA of America, which was resolved out of courtroom on the finish of final yr. 

Now, although, the previous President is again on the {golfing} desk having been provided a means again in by the Saudi league.