{"id":19026,"date":"2022-07-19T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/9-11-families-urge-trump-to-cancel-liv-golf-event-at-his-club\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:25:41","slug":"9-11-families-urge-trump-to-cancel-liv-golf-event-at-his-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/9-11-families-urge-trump-to-cancel-liv-golf-event-at-his-club\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 families urge Trump to cancel LIV Golf event at his club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center pr-sm\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\"><button class=\"wpds-c-gNHrZC wpds-c-gNHrZC-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-gNHrZC-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-gNHrZC-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-gNHrZC-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-gNHrZC-futxca-cv wpds-c-gNHrZC-ihhnWqF-css\"><button class=\"PJLV PJLV-igcOMTV-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-coakfw wpds-c-jsGDWQ focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\" iconstyle=\"[object Object]\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Relatives of Sept.  11 victims urged Donald Trump to cancel a LIV Golf tournament scheduled for the end of this month at the former president&#8217;s Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Members of the 9\/11 Justice group requested a meeting with Trump in a letter dated Sunday and noted he has previously blamed Saudi Arabia for the terrorist attack.  The tournament, part of the Saudi-financed LIV Golf series, is set for July 29 to 31. The finale of the LIV Golf season is set for late October at Trump Doral in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cWe simply cannot understand how you could agree to accept money from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia&#8217;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,\u201d the group wrote in a letter obtained by The Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cIt is incomprehensible to us that a former president of the United States would cast our loved ones aside for personal financial gain,\u201d the group&#8217;s letter continued.  \u201cWe hope you will reconsider your business relationship with the Saudi golf league and will agree to meet with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Requests for comment sent to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster and to a spokesperson for Trump were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">Before it even arrives, golf&#8217;s rogue tour rolls a small Oregon town<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">LIV Golf&#8217;s upcoming presence is particularly painful for some residents of northern New Jersey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cWe&#8217;ve had to grow a tough skin over the last 20 years, but this is cruel and callous,\u201d Dennis McGinley of Haworth, NJ, whose brother, Daniel, died in the attack, told NorthJersey.com.  \u201cForget that it&#8217;s unpresidential,\u201d he said of Trump.  \u201cIt&#8217;s so hurtful to the 9\/11 community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">As a presidential candidate, Trump had raised the issue of Saudi involvement in the attacks.  The letter noted a 2016 Fox News interview in which Trump asked: \u201cWho blew up the World Trade Center?  It wasn&#8217;t the Iraqis.  It was Saudi.  Take a look at Saudi Arabia.\u201d  He added: \u201cMost of the people came from Saudi Arabia.  They didn&#8217;t come from Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Over 20 years after the attacks, the arrival of LIV Golf further reveals a US-Saudi relationship that remains complicated.  President Biden traveled to the country last week and met with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince trying to rehab the kingdom&#8217;s global image and the man the CIA said ordered the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">In a letter to Biden dated from Sunday, the group 9-11 Families United asked to meet with the president and wrote: \u201cIt pains us to say it but you are the first president since the Sept.  11 attacks who has not met with the families and survivors.  Yet you just traveled halfway around the world to fist-bump Saudi crown Prince Mohammed vin Salman, where he had the gall to lecture you about human rights and &#8216;values.&#8217;  \u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">LIV Golf is backed by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund, the financial arm of the Saudi government.  A number of popular golfers, including Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, joined up, willing to align themselves with a regime seeking to publicly rehabilitate its image in exchange for a huge payday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"b bt bc-offblack dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this story Comment Relatives of Sept. 11 victims urged Donald Trump to cancel a LIV Golf tournament scheduled for the end of this month at the former president&#8217;s Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ Members of the 9\/11 Justice group requested a meeting with Trump in a letter dated Sunday and noted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/9-11-families-urge-trump-to-cancel-liv-golf-event-at-his-club\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9\/11 families urge Trump to cancel LIV Golf event at his club<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19191,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/liv-golf-donald-trump-tells-golfers-to-join-the-controversial-tour-and-take-the-money-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":19026,"position":0},"title":"LIV Golf: Donald Trump tells golfers to join the controversial tour and &#8216;take the money now&#8217;","date":"July 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CNN \u2014 Former US President Donald Trump told golfers that they should join the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series and \u201ctake the money now,\u201d as the breakaway series prepares for its next event at Trump National Golf Bedminster, New Jersey, from July 29- 31. \u201cAll of those golfers that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18356,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/david-feherty-leaves-nbc-to-become-analyst-for-liv-golf\/","url_meta":{"origin":19026,"position":1},"title":"David Feherty leaves NBC to become analyst for LIV Golf","date":"July 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Golf analyst David Feherty and NBC have parted ways, and he is expected to join the LIV Golf tour's broadcasts, The Post has learned. 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