Later this month, Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey hosts
its first tournament for the new LIV Golf series, funded by Saudi
Arabia, which is upending the sport’s establishment with a $2 billion investment and contracts with top players that reportedly reach $150 million or more. ...
The huge Saudi sums could not only benefit Trump financially as he
mulls a comeback bid in 2024, but they also pose a mortal threat to the
PGA Tour, which reacted to LIV Golf by suspending players from competing
in its tournaments — a move that landed the tour in the crosshairs of a
federal antitrust investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. ...
Meanwhile, the survivors and families of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have lined up against LIV Golf and protested its
first U.S. event last month in Oregon because of Saudi Arabia’s
involvement and the kingdom’s multiple connections to the hijackers. ...
Trump’s decision to tee off with LIV highlights his close ties to Saudi Arabia; he made his first foreign visit there as president, and its wealth fund injected $2 billion into his son-in-law’s company last year.
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Meanwhile, Biden is headed to Saudi Arabia, hat in hand, asking for more oil, which he could easily get here but for his idiotic war on carbon.
Biden heads to Saudi Arabia for what could be an ‘embarrassing’ climbdown — or a welcome reset
While campaigning in 2019, Biden vowed to treat the Saudi kingdom as
“the pariah that they are,” and as president, he vocally criticized the
country’s human rights abuses. He also insisted on viewing Saudi
Arabia’s King Salman as his counterpart, rather than the 36-year-old
crown prince, who runs the kingdom’s day-to-day affairs.
Crown Prince Mohammed in March reportedly refused to take a call from Biden, as the U.S. leader pleaded with Gulf states to increase oil production after banning Russian oil imports.
And in an early March interview with The Atlantic, when asked if he thought Biden misunderstood him, the crown prince replied: “Simply, I do not care. It’s up to him to think about the interests of America.”
