Donald Trump on Friday celebrated a golf course business deal with ties to a Saudi prince who U.S. intelligence officials believe ordered the execution of a Washington Post columnist, according to his social media posts and a new report.
The former president announced Trump National Doral would partner with LIV Golf — funded by the Prince Mohammed bin Salman-led Public Investment Fund — to host a tournament the same year he hopes to reclaim the White House.
“TRUMP NATIONAL DORAL, in Miami, has just signed with LIV GOLF to host a Championship Tournament in April, 2024,” he wrote on Truth Social. “The event they had at Doral in October was a major success!”
News of a cash flow that ends in Trump’s pocket and begins with a Saudi prince the CIA believes ordered the assassination in 2018 of Jamal Khashoggi stunned Washington Post Philip Bump, and not just because of the parties involved.
This announcement comes as President Joe Biden faces a possible impeachment — despite an admitted lack of corruption evidence — because, as Rep. James Comer puts it, his son Hunter received money from “bad people in bad countries.”
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“The term ‘bad’ is certainly subjective,” writes Bump, “but you may evaluate for yourself whether this qualifies for James Comer’s angry denunciation of receiving money from ‘bad people’ from foreign countries.”
Nor is this the first time Saudi cash has fueled business on a Trump golf courses, reports show.
Onlookers in New York City — where Trump currently faces a $250 million fraud lawsuit — were outraged in 2022 when news broke that his Bronx golf course would host a Saudi-tied tournament.
At the time, a coalition of families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 pointed to Saudi ties to the terror attacks when they demanded the tournament be canceled.
Said Dennis McGinley, according to an NY1 report, “The cruelty and callousness of these golfers and a former president is shocking.”
