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Editorial: The LIV-PGA merger exposes stunning leadership hypocrisy

Former President Donald Trump hits a tee shot during the pro-am prior to the LIV Golf Invitational- DC at Trump National Golf Club on May 25, 2023, in Sterling, Virginia.

Back in July 2021, the families of those who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, were outraged by the arrival of a Saudi-backed golf tournament at the New Jersey golf course owned by Donald Trump, just 50 miles from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

The families pointed out that 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi nationals. Trump, who was playing in the tournament with his son Eric, merely rubbed salt into their wounds by saying, falsely, that “nobody

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