'Categorically false': Head of 9/11 Justice fires again at Trump over LIV protection

EXCLUSIVE — Brett Eagleson, president of 9/11 Justice, is rejecting former President Donald Trump's claims that he would not know what relations of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults "are saying" concerning the LIV Golf match.

Eagleson recounted a current name he had with an aide of Trump through which he was assured that the previous president had learn the group's letter outlining its gripes with LIV and that Trump was "personally going to recollect each one of many names discovered within the letter."

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"In that letter, we laid out all of our the explanation why we're upset. We laid out all of the proof that we now have towards the dominion," Eagleson advised the Washington Examiner. "The aide confirmed to me that the president personally learn our letter and that he is personally going to recollect each one of many names discovered within the letter and he was very glad that we wrote him that letter."

Trump had advised the Wall Road Journal that he was not aware of lots of the grievances from relations of the 9/11 victims who've been railing towards his internet hosting of LIV at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership Bedminster this weekend.

“I don’t know a lot concerning the 9/11 households, I don’t know what's the relationship to this and their very robust emotions, and I can perceive their emotions,” Trump stated. “I can’t actually touch upon that as a result of I don’t know precisely what they’re saying and what they’re saying, who did what.”

The group, 9/11 Justice, which advocates on behalf of households of the phobia assault victims, despatched the letter to Trump as a part of its efforts to nix the occasion. When pressed about whether or not Trump had been mendacity or the aide had exaggerated accounts of the president studying the letter, Eagleson famous that the aide by no means deviated from her speaking factors in the course of the name.

"For him to journal that he wasn't conscious of our points — why we're annoyed — that is simply categorically false," Eagleson added. "I solely know what I used to be advised by the aide that the previous president personally instructed her to name me. He stated that 9/11 could be very close to and pricey to him. He was completely satisfied that we took the time to put in writing him the letter and that he is by no means going to overlook us writing him a letter. And he personally learn the letter."

Relations of the victims have condemned LIV for taking cash from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund because of the oil-rich nation's alleged ties to the assaults. They've implored Trump to drag the plug on the occasion at his golf resort and urged outstanding golfers to shun the occasion. Roughly half of the victims' households are Trump supporters, Eagleson estimated, including many felt betrayed by his actions with LIV.

"Half of our communities are a few of the greatest Trump supporters — if you happen to look to the FDNY for NYPD households — plenty of these, they're very, very pro-Trump," Eagleson defined. "He is dropping plenty of bipartisan assist, mainstream Republican assist, for selecting to do enterprise with the dominion."

Trump has proven no indicators of relenting and is slated to host the LIV occasion at his New Jersey golf resort starting Friday. He's additionally scheduled to host a second LIV occasion at Trump Nationwide Doral in Miami in October.