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Clout Public Affairs has dropped the PGA Tour as a client following its decision to merge with the Saudi Arabia government’s LIV Golf.
It had been working with the PGA and 9/11 Justice, which wants to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the terror attacks, to highlight the upstart tour’s ties with the Kingdom.
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DeSantis hosted 9/11 Justice president Brett Eagleson, and others who lost loved ones during the terror attacks and Gold Star families, at a Memorial Day barbeque at the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee.
Former president Donald Trump hosted a LIV Golf tournament during the Memorial Day weekend at his course in Virginia, which is about 30 miles away from the Pentagon, where 184 people were killed on 9/11.
“I just want to juxtapose that against what a former president is doing on this very weekend at a golf course and one of his own golf courses, lining the pockets from a country who stands accused in a trial as we speak… of aiding and abetting and sponsoring the 9/11 terror attacks,” Eagleson told the New York Post.
Trump called the PGA/LIV hook-up a “big, beautiful, and glamorous deal."
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Jun. 12, 2023, by Bill Huey
Well, this is a rich and curious mix of hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness. The PGA has been using 9/11 families to hose LIV and question its motives, and now has to embrace the Saudi PIF and its billions.
I predict that if the DOJ doesn't stop this merger (they insist it isn't a merger but a "combination", it will blow up on its own because of internal rivalries and power struggles, player dissatisfaction, and advertiser/sponsor squeamishness.