The group 9/11 Justice despatched a letter to Trump, CBS Information stories, requesting that the previous president at the very least meet to debate their issues. The group says they acquired a response from one among Trump’s aides, alleging {that a} contract obligates the Trump Nationwide Golf Membership to maneuver ahead with the event as deliberate.
John Bruce Eagleson, founding father of 9/11 Justice and who misplaced his father together with the two,996 others who died within the assault on the World Commerce Middle in 2001, stated {that a} Trump consultant stated, “9/11 is actually close to and expensive to [Trump], and it’s so essential to him he’s going to recollect everybody who signed the letter, and he personally instructed [the aide] to succeed in out.”
However Monday, Trump gave an interview to the Wall Road Journal, implying he had no thought what the 9/11 households had been speaking about.
“I don’t know a lot in regards to the 9/11 households, I don’t know what’s the relationship to this, and their very sturdy emotions, and I can perceive their emotions,” he stated. “I can’t actually touch upon that as a result of I don’t know precisely what they’re saying, and what they’re saying who did what.”
In response to the New York Submit, Trump was seen Wednesday night time residing it up in New York Metropolis on the official LIV Golf social gathering. And the twice-impeached, one-term former president has a scheduled spherical of golf forward of the event with a gaggle {of professional} golfers on Thursday.
The event is sponsored by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Funds, based on the Submit. Strada calls the occasion “a multibillion-dollar public relations stunt purchased and paid for by the dominion of Saudi Arabia.”
The 9/11 households level to lately launched paperwork from the FBI exhibiting Saudi assist of the 9/11 hijackers. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who attacked the 2 WTC Towers and the Pentagon, and tried a failed fourth assault that resulted in a area in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, had been Saudi nationals.
Regardless of criticism of the occasion, Trump instructed LIV golfers to “take the cash now.”
”All of these golfers that stay ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its completely different types, can pay 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 Hundreds of thousands of {Dollars} a 12 months,” Trump wrote (as introduced) on Fact Social Monday, CNN stories.
Matthew Bocchi, who misplaced his father on 9/11, instructed CBS Information: “We have had each president since 9/11 evade holding the dominion accountable for their function within the assaults on September eleventh, and we consider they should be held accountable for murdering our family members and injuring numerous others.”
John Bruce Eagleson, who misplaced his father together with the two,996 others who died within the assault on the World Commerce Middle in 2001, tells CNN that the selection to host the LIV Golf event is “unconscionable.” Particularly, the course itself is “within the yard of the place 750 New Jersey residents had been murdered.”
“The previous President accurately speculated in 2016 that Saudi Arabia knocked down the Towers, and now the FBI has launched the paperwork to show him proper… but he’s selecting cash over America. A lot for America First. A tragic day,” Eagleson instructed CNN.
CBS Information stories that the 9/11 households have additionally reached out to President Joe Biden for assist.
In the meantime, LIV Golf launched an announcement in regards to the occasion and its controversy. That letter reads, partially: “These households have our deepest sympathy. Whereas some might not agree, we consider golf is a pressure for good around the globe.”
Thursday, Bob Costas gave an interview to CNN and didn’t maintain again.
“Some 700 plus of the victims on 9/11, 21 years in the past, had been from New Jersey, a few of them from the Bedminster space.
“So the 9/11 households are very harm about this, very upset, there will probably be protests outdoors the grounds, but when we discovered something about Donald Trump, which it shouldn’t have taken very lengthy to study, is that he doesn’t care about any precept, together with American democracy or any particular person, he cares about nothing aside from his personal perceived self-interests.
“After which there’s the side of grievance and revenge. He was upset as a result of the PGA pulled out following Jan. 6 the final 12 months, following these occasions, they pulled the PGA event from the Bedminster course. So this is a component of grievance on his half as a result of, as everyone knows, he’s, in any case, essentially the most persecuted man in American historical past and he’s certified to say that as a result of he’s a scholar of historical past,” Costas stated.
