Trump to host controversial Saudi funded golf tournaments

Photo by: LIV Golf - Facebook
Photo by: LIV Golf - Facebook

(Miami, FL) -- Former President Donald Trump is hosting two tournaments of the Saudi-funded LIV Tour this year.

Trump's National Golf Club Bedminster will host its first tournament later this month. In October, the LIV Tour will wind up its season at Trump's signature course in Florida, Trump National Doral Miami.

The LIV Tour is controversial for a number of reasons, particularly that's it's funded by Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has a poor human rights record and a group of Saudi Operatives murdered Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul nearly four years ago.