Trump says ‘take the money’ amid criticism for hosting Saudi-backed league

Donald Trump is urging PGA players to “take the money” and be a part of a Saudi-backed golfing tour despite 9/11 families’ criticism of the former president for hosting the upstart league.

Trump’s submit on his social media startup, Truth of the matter Social, adopted a Day by day News report that households of 9/11 victims have been outraged the former president was welcoming the league to his golfing club at Bedminster, N.J. The families have waged a decades-very long authorized struggle to keep the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for its alleged function in the terrorist attacks.

“All of people golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the quite disloyal PGA, in all of its diverse kinds, will fork out a massive rate when the unavoidable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get practically nothing but a huge ‘thank you’ from PGA officers who are building Hundreds of thousands of Pounds a yr,’ Trump wrote Monday. LIV Golf is a new rival to the PGA Tour.

“If you really do not choose the revenue now, you will get very little just after the merger can take place, and only say how wise the first signees had been,” he wrote.

The controversial tour arrives at Trump National Golfing Club on July 29.

Bedminster is just 42 miles from Floor Zero, in which 750 New Jersey residents died on 9/11. Lots of of the hijackers had Saudi ties. The Saudi govt has a bad human legal rights record, with the U.S. intelligence local community figuring out Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman purchased the grotesque assassination of Washington Publish journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018.

The Saudi governing administration denies any job in the assaults or the Khashoggi murder.

Dennis McGinley, who dropped his brother Danny in the terror assaults, named Trump’s support a “kick in the gut.”

“It is beyond comprehension, the simple fact that a previous president would host the Saudis. Serving to them get their new golf league off the floor? It is absurd,” McGinley explained to The News.

Some 9/11 household associates are setting up a protest of the Bedminster occasion comparable to one held in Portland, Ore., at the LIV U.S. debut there.

“Why does not Trump handle our problems and address 9/11?,” questioned Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce, died at the Planet Trade Heart, and is a plaintiff in the federal lawsuit against the Saudi government. “This is a dude who stated the Saudis did it and he’s creating it all about money. So significantly for his The us Initial slogan. He doesn’t give two sh–s about the American lives missing on 9/11 and values the bucks more.”

Trump is also internet hosting the final party of the tour at his program in Miami, Fla., in Oct, with Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau slated to participate in.

The PGA cut ties with Trump subsequent an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Fifteen of the 9/11 hijackers were being Saudi citizens. Amnesty Worldwide not long ago reported 92 executions in Saudi Arabia in the initially a few months of 2022.

A PGA rep did not immediately reply to a ask for for comment.