Former President Donald Trump, who’s the presumptive presidential nominee this year from the Republican Party, is keeping his close relationship with LIV Golf intact. It’s a golf league running off wells of financial support from Saudi Arabian leadership, and with Trump’s properties hosting LIV Golf events in prior periods and now again this April, Trump’s businesses are seemingly raking in big bucks that trace to Saudi sources.
“The hardest working man in politics is picking up another big payday from the Saudis today,” Ron Filipkowski, a former federal prosecutor and current fixture in online political media, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Sunday. “They can’t donate to his campaign, so they just funnel him cash through golf tournaments.” It appears Trump showed up, though earlier reports on the event unfolding this weekend noted a pointed absence. It’s happening at Trump Doral in Miami.
The specific entity in Saudi Arabia propelling the controversial league behind which Trump has thrown his voracious support is its Public Investment Fund, a government entity in which the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is also involved. He’s chairman of the fund — and the same foreign figure credited with orchestrating the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi when Trump still served as president. And this same fund also spurred extensive concerns with billions of dollars provided to an investment business run by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner following the ex-president’s family member’s time in White House employment under Trump.
Democrats in the House have been insistent on trying to uncover details of Kushner’s relationship with the Saudis, stymied so far by Republicans taking control of the legislative chamber in the 2022 midterm elections and basically punting concerns about Kushner ever since. But it seems obvious a potentially future Democratic majority would prioritize examining Kushner’s finances.
