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Take the money and run
https://digbysblog.net/2022/07/19/take-the-money-and-run/Digby's Hullabaloo Posts
Take the money and run
Published by digby on July 19, 2022
Trump’s credo
Trump is pushing the Saudi sponsored golf association LIV, bigly. And it’s because he wants his resorts to host the tournaments and pay him big bucks to do so. The Saudis are happy to throw that money his way in anticipation of his possible second term of course. It’s all beneficial to both of them so they are holding their first big US tournament at Trump’s Bedminster golf resort in New Jersey.
Trump is urging all the pro golfers to take the money and run:
His comments come as families of 9/11 victims urged him to cancel the tournament, citing LIV Golf’s Saudi backing. They thinks it’s just a tad distasteful to be making big bucks from the Saudis in the back yard of 9/11. He does not care, of course.
Meanwhile, some in the media (and I’m not talking about Fox) are comparing Trump’s personally corrupt money grubbing to Biden going over to Saudi Arabia on a diplomatic mission to try to keep alliances together and energy supplies uninterrupted. Because they are exactly the same.
*Sigh*