In a letter this week to Adams and Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Council Member Shekar Krishnan, who chairs the council’s Committee on Parks and Recreation, urged the mayor’s administration to “terminate the license” permitting Trump’s firm to run the Bronx golf course, a transfer that they are saying “would also cancel the tournament.”
Allegations that the Saudi authorities was complicit within the assaults on September 11, 2001, have lengthy been the topic of dispute in Washington. Fifteen of the 19 al Qaeda terrorists who hijacked 4 planes have been Saudi nationals, however the Saudi authorities has denied any involvement within the assaults.
Adams and Krishnan argue that the Trump Organization’s ongoing authorized points make it “untenable for the City to continue to do business with this operator.”
“Public parkland should not be in the hands of Donald Trump or the Trump Organization,” they wrote.
Eric Trump, a prime govt on the Trump Organization and a son of the previous President, stated in a press release that town had been cooperating forward of the match.
“We are incredibly proud to host the finest women’s professional golfers in the world at Trump Ferry Point, NYC,” he stated. “A big thank you to the City of New York and to the Parks Department for their support and approval.”
This shouldn’t be the primary time Adams has come under pressure to cancel the match.
In a press release to CNN this week, City Hall known as the scenario “frustrating” and criticized the Trump Organization for agreeing to host the match “knowing how much pain it would cause New Yorkers.” But it argued that the mayor’s arms have been tied.
“What Speaker Adams and Councilmember Krishnan are advocating would require the city to pay up to thirty million dollars to the Trump Organization, an outcome no one should want — despite our shared desire to see the Trump Organization removed from the golf course,” stated Maxwell Young, a spokesman for the mayor.
Michael Cardozo, the previous head of town’s legislation division and now a accomplice at Proskauer, advised CNN in August that town was “obligated to comply with the express terms of the contract it has entered into” and though it doesn’t need the golf match to happen, it does have “the right to prohibit the Trump Organization from allowing the tournament to be held.”
At the identical time, Brett Eagleson, president of 9/11 Justice, a victims’ advocacy group, known as on the mayor “to stay away from Ground Zero and any and all other 9/11 memorials and events unless his office rescinds its approval” of the Saudi-backed match, which is anticipated to function a minimum of a handful of prime feminine golf stars.
On Friday, Eagleson in a press release thanked the City Council leaders for his or her new efforts to halt the match and stated 9/11 Justice would again “any methods used to block the Trump hosted and Saudi funded Aramco Golf Series from happening in New York City this fall.”
“Given the newly declassified FBI documents per the Biden Executive Order which further demonstrates Saudi Government complicity in 9/11 we believe every effort should be exhausted to stop this tournament,” Eagleson stated.
Golf Saudi, proprietor of the Aramco Team Series, sponsors a month-to-month 30-minute golf present on CNN International.