NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Sept. 11 victims’ family members who have long accused Saudi Arabia of aiding the terrorists who carried out the attacks are condemning former President Donald Trump for hosting the Saudi-backed LIV golf tour at his New Jersey course later this month.
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In a letter to Trump on Sunday, family members said they felt “extreme pain, frustration and anger” as a result of Trump’s decision to host the controversial Saudi-sponsored league at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey for three days starting July 29.
“The evidence against Saudi Arabia and its role in the attacks is more clear than ever and, despite knowing that, former President Trump has accepted their money and is allowing them to enter a state devastated by 9/11,” said Brett Eagleson, president of 9/11 Justice and the son of a World Trade Center attack victim.
Eagleson’s group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Saudi Arabia of being complicit in the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001 and has sought the release of classified FBI documents related to the Saudis’ role in the attacks.
The Saudi government has denied any involvement in the attacks. But the family members said Trump, a Republican, blamed the Saudis himself in a 2016 Fox News interview. “Who blew up the World Trade Center?” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.” “It wasn’t the Iraqis –- it was Saudi. Take a look at Saudi Arabia. Open the documents.”
Requests for comment on the Sept. 11 family group’s letter were sent Monday to representatives for Trump and for LIV Golf.
Critics have accused the LIV Golf series, set up as a rival to the PGA Tour, of ignoring Saudi Arabia’s record of human rights abuses including the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Democratic President Joe Biden met Friday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and said afterward that the prince told him he was “not personally responsible” for Khashoggi’s death. “I indicated I thought he was,” the president said he replied.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows. In the middle 1800s should European countries have eschewed the United States because of slavery? Arabs killing other Arabs is their business. Arabs also murdered Jews, essentially the same Arabs that are now making peace with Israel. That is how international politics works. If the idiot Biden went to S.A. to negotiate oil prices, peace in the region and a common stand against Iran, he had to keep his mouth shut about murders and human rights violations. Talking out of both sides of his mouth not only did he accomplish NOTHING, he made a bigger fool out of himself than he was viewed before.
It’s unreal how biased these people they are. How about being upset at the current great President Biden who is buying up Saudi oil instead of unleashing some us reserves.
This is just anti trump nonsense. The Saudis made amends . We are nice to Germans to. And Germany as a country commited the worse. It wasn’t just being complicit in harbouring terrorists like the Saudis . At the end of the day they are now a leading peaceful partner and should be our ally