PGA board member Jimmy Dunne DEFENDS Saudis who say those he works with ‘had nothing to do with’ 9/11

PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne, the man who brokered the deal between the Saudi Public Investment Fund and the Tour, made a bold statement about the PIF and Saudi Arabia’s connection to the September 11 attacks.

Speaking on the Golf Channel, Dunne gave an emotional response about the Saudi connection to the terrorist attacks, promising that if anyone found a person “unambiguously” involved in 9/11, he would “kill them himself.”

“Every day is the first thing I think about [September 11]; several times a day I think about it; and the last thing I think about at night is that,’ Dunne began.

That hasn’t changed since that day. And I’m not alone in that. I would guarantee that every one of those family members has the same condition. It’s just a reality of how incredibly sad and awful that day was.

‘I understand that. And I’m pretty sure – and I’ve had conversations with a lot of very knowledgeable people – that the people I’m dealing with had nothing to do with it.

“If anyone can find someone who was undeniably involved, I’ll kill him myself. We don’t have to wait.’

Dunne said the ‘people I deal with had nothing to do with’ the 9/11 terrorist attacks

Dunne continued, saying, “But the reality is we need to come together as a people. We have too much division.

“And at some point — whether it’s our view of the Japanese or our view of the Germans — there’s a point where you have to say, let’s try to get to know each other. Let’s try to understand, let’s try to demonstrate with an example.

“Now I’m not taking a position on any country, and whatever their position is on what I’m trying to say, I believe we shouldn’t run away from our differences. And we should get to know each other and actually make it hard so we don’t have to make a family deal with what we were dealing with over 20 years ago.

“As awful as it was for me, it was much worse for other people. I can not imagine [voice cracks] … if one of my children were involved. So I really have empathy for it, but I’d like to do something about it.

“And I want to make sure that another poor kid who just goes to work one day doesn’t have to go through what we went through. It starts with communicating with people all over the world and I want to contribute to that.’

Dunne, an investment banker, co-founded Sandler O’Neill and Partners – a firm located on the 104th floor in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

He was trying to qualify for the US Mid-Amateur on September 11, 2001 when the attacks occurred – resulting in the deaths of 66 of his employees.

9/11 Families United – a coalition of families and survivors of the attacks – has released a statement following the proposed merger of the PGA, LIV and the DP World Tour.

Dunne (R) was playing golf when his employees were in the South Tower, with 66 killed

9/11 Families United released a statement criticizing PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan

In particular, they targeted PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, whose defense of his golf circuit often involved taking a high moral stand by not being tied to the Saudi government.

“PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan last year co-opted the 9/11 community into the PGA’s unequivocal agreement that the Saudi LIV project was nothing more than a tarnishing of Saudi Arabia’s reputation,” the organization’s president said. , Terry Strada.

But now the PGA and Monahan seem to have just turned more paid Saudi shills, taking billions of dollars to clean up the Saudi reputation, so that Americans and the world will forget how the pre-9/11 Kingdom spent their billions of dollars to fight terrorism. finance. spreading their vitriolic hatred of Americans and funding Al Qaeda and the murder of our loved ones. Make no mistake – we will never forget.

‘Mr. Monahan spoke last summer about knowing people who lost loved ones on 9/11, then wondered aloud on national television if LIV Golfers ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour.

“They do now – just like him. PGA Tour leaders should be ashamed of their hypocrisy and greed.

“Our entire 9/11 community has been betrayed by Commissioner Monahan and the PGA as it appears their concern for our loved ones was just a sham in their quest for money – it was never to honor the great game of golf.”

Al-Rumayyan is now clearly the most powerful man in golf as three tours will merge

The agreed merger will see the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and the DP World Tour all fall under the purview of the Saudi PIF – controlled by Yasir Al-Rumayyan.

Dunne and Ed Herlihy, the chairman of the PGA Tour’s policy board, helped broker the deal between the PGA and the PIF to merge the golf circuits.

Monahan will operate as CEO of the combined leagues with Al-Rumayyan as chairman and Dunne and Herlihy on the board.

Dunne is a member of a number of prestigious golf clubs – including Augusta National and Shinnecock Hills – and he is also the president of Florida’s Seminole Golf Club.