DORAL, FLA. (WSVN) – Liked kinds of victims of 9/11 are furious as a golfing tournament is set to tee off in Doral.
On Thursday, 9/11 Justice, an advocacy group of survivors and loved ones associates, held their possess news conference.
For them, the LIV Golfing Match pours salt in the wound since it is funded by Saudi leaders and held at previous President Donald Trump’s golf course.
“Our oldest brother Danny was murdered on the 89th ground of the South Tower,” claimed Dennis McGinley.
“I was a survivor of the collapse of the South Tower 21 a long time in the past. I was doing work on the 80th flooring at the time,” reported Tim Frolich.
“The United States government has never stood up to the kingdom. We haven’t held them accountable for what they did 21 many years back,” claimed Brett Eagelson, whose father was killed on 9/11.
Amid the controversy, Trump expended the day in Doral playing a spherical of golfing in advance of the tournament staying hosted at his golf class.
Again in 2016, he achieved with the group and promised to declassify documents that confirmed the Saudi involvement with the terrorist attacks, but he by no means did.
In its place, President Joe Biden declassified a portion of the report past yr.
Juliet Scauso, the daughter of a firefighter who was killed on 9/11, expanded on the group’s issues with the golfing event.
“How substantially funds would it get for you to transform your again on your state and on your fellow Us residents?” she stated. “If you knew who performed a purpose in the murder of your loved just one and practically 3,000 other people in the worst terrorist attack our country has ever seen, would you not make each work to attain justice for them?”
Scauso’s father perished although hoping to conserve folks on that horrible working day.
“What if people who murdered your loved just one constantly evaded justice, then arrived into your nation to do small business, to invest in off your fellow Individuals and to modify the public’s belief of them?” she stated.
According to U.S. intelligence, Saudi officers are also responsible for the beheading of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Now these persons hope the golfers who are in it for a $50 million purse will hear to their pleas.
“Phil Mickelson and other golfers recently mentioned that golfing is a drive for superior. They’re turning it into a drive for greed, suffering and sportswashing,” said McGinley.
“I imagine, possibly on a little scale, we can be an case in point of what it can take to see just about every other’s points, on a incredibly unpleasant and own problem these types of as 9/11,” claimed Frolich as he fought again tears.
Users of 9/11 Justice stated they hope to sit down with some of the gamers to share their views.
The match is set to begin Friday.
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