Families of 9/11 victims have savaged Donald Trump in a brand new advert for internet hosting a Saudi-funded golf match 50 miles from Ground Zero.
The 9/11 Justice group accused Mr Trump of taking a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} from an “evil regime” for internet hosting the breakaway LIV Golf occasion at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, this weekend.
“It’s disgusting,” stated one lady, whereas holding up a photograph of her father who died within the al Qaeda assaults.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal revealed on Tuesday, Mr Trump appeared unconcerned concerning the households’ objections.
“I don’t know much about the 9/11 families, I don’t know what is the relationship to this, and their very strong feelings, and I can understand their feelings,” he stated.
“I can’t really comment on that because I don’t know exactly what they’re saying, and what they’re saying who did what.”
He advised the WSJ that LIV Golf has been price “billions of dollars” in publicity for the oil-rich Gulf state.
In the advert launched on Tuesday, one other lady who misplaced household on 9/11 asks Mr Trump: “How much money to turn your back on your own country.”
A person who holds up a photograph of his father who was killed within the World Trade Center assaults, says: “I’m never going to forget, never going to forgive the golfers for taking this blood money.”
‘It’s disgusting’: 9/11 Justice has accused Donald Trump of taking cash from an ‘evil regime’ in new advert
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Donald Trump {golfing} at his Bedminster course (file picture)
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He additionally factors out that Bedminster is “less than 50 miles from Ground Zero.”
The advert calls on folks to name Bedminster on 908-470-4400 to “let them know it’s wrong”.
Last week, 9/11 Justice wrote to the previous president to name on him to cancel the occasion over Saudi Arabia’s ties to al Qaeda.
“The Saudi nation is largely responsible for the death of our loved ones and for the horrific attack on America. And you know it,” stated Brett Eagleson, president of 9/11 Justice and the son of a World Trade Center sufferer John Bruce Eagleson.
The Saudi authorities has denied any involvement within the assaults, and a report by the 9/11 Commission launched in 2004 stated it had not discovered any proof that Saudi establishments of officers had funded the terrorist organisation.
But victims rights teams proceed to hunt the discharge of extra labeled data from US authorities.
In a 2016 Fox News interview, Mr Trump blamed the Saudis for the assault.
“Who blew up the World Trade Center?” he stated on Fox & Friends. “It wasn’t the Iraqis — it was Saudi. Take a look at Saudi Arabia. Open the documents.”
Mr Trump has a historical past of constructing doubtful claims concerning the terror assaults on New York on 11 September 2001.
After the Twin Towers fell, he bizarrely claimed in an interview that day that his constructing at 40 Wall St was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan.
He additionally outrageously stated that he noticed 1000’s of New Jersey Muslims celebrating on 9/11 whereas campaigning for president in 2015.
Despite there being no proof that any such celebration passed off, Mr Trump doubled down on the remarks when challenged on them in later interviews.
The LIV Golf league, headed by Australian golfer Greg Norman, has enticed high-profile gamers together with Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Louis Oosthuizen to defect from the PGA Tour with the promise of $25m in prize cash at every occasion.
The PGA Tour voted final 12 months to strip an settlement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster after the lethal assault on the US Capitol.
LIV Golf issued a press release final week expressing their “deepest sympathy” for the households of 9/11 victims.
