LIV Golf to Stage August Tournament at Trump Bedminster Club

LIV Golf, the Saudi Arabia-backed league, announced on Friday that it would hold a tournament in August at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, a Trump-family-owned club in New Jersey, underscoring growing financial ties between the Saudi government and the president's family during his second term.

The Bedminster event will be the latest of at least half a dozen LIV tournaments held at Trump Organization resorts in the United States over the past four years. The organization is backed by the Saudi government’s sovereign wealth fund, which the article says is valued at nearly $1 trillion.

Besides Bedminster, LIV has held annual tournaments at the Trump Doral resort in Miami, and the Trump Organization profits from fees and the business generated by thousands of ticket-buying fans who attend the events. Asked this month about his family’s business with enterprises funded by foreign governments, President Trump said he saw no ethical reason to hold it in check: "I have a very honest family," he said.

"Why wouldn’t I let them do things?" The Trump family’s ties to the Saudi government have expanded as Mr. Trump pursued an alliance with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The crown prince was described as a global pariah after the killing of a journalist in 2018, part of a brutal crackdown on political dissent, but the article says he gradually made his way back to the world stage.

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Politics, Liv Golf, Trump Family, Bedminster, Saudi Government, Mohammed Bin Salman