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Former US President Donald Trump is planning to host a Saudi-backed LIV tournament at his golf clubs despite pleas from 9/11 families. Trump received a letter from relatives of those killed and injured in the September 11 attacks expressing their displeasure at his plans to host two of the eight events at this year’s Saudi-backed LIV Gold tournament at his resorts, Washington Examiner reports.
The event is
billed to take place at his properties in Bedminster, New Jersey, Miami, and
Florida. Relatives and family members are concerned that the event is funded by
Saudi Arabia Royal family citing the former president’s statement several years
after the 9/11 attacks to the effect that it was carried out by the Saudis.
“We simply
cannot understand how you could agree to accept money from the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia’s golf league to host their tournament at your golf course, and to do so
in the shadows of ground zero in New Jersey, which lost over 700 residents
during the attacks,” the group known as 9/11 Justice wrote in the letter,
according to Washington Examiner.
“It is
incomprehensible to us that a former president of the United States would cast
our loved ones aside for personal financial gain,” the letter continued. “We
hope you will reconsider your business relationship with the Saudi golf league
and will agree to meet with us.”
The group
referenced Trump’s prior comments on Saudi involvement in the attacks in a
February 2016 Fox News Interview, according to Washington Examiner.
"Who blew up the World Trade Center? It wasn’t the Iraqis. It was Saudi. Take a look at Saudi Arabia, open the documents," he told the network, going on to add: “The people came, most of the people came from Saudi Arabia. They didn’t come from Iraq.”
15 out of the 18 terrorists who hijacked the planes were Saudis.
Washington
Examiner reported that the FBI released declassified records from its
investigation into potential links between the Saudi government and 9/11 in
September 2021, with some of the long-anticipated documents released on the 20th
anniversary of the al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the world trade center, the
Pentagon and another hijacked plane which crashed into the Pennsylvania field.
More than 2500 people died in the attacks most of whom were civilians.
Families of the
9/11 victims have for years sought details that could possibly link the Saudi government
to the terrorist attacks owing to the kingdom’s terrorism sponsorship. Saudi
Arabia says it has no hand in the attacks.
Trump is
hosting tournaments at his Trump National Golf Club Bedminster and the season
ending Team Championship at Trump National Doral Miami.