New York City Council members increase pressure for city to end contract with Trump golf course

Trump Golf Links in Ferry Point is operated by the Trump Organization on public land owned by the city.Trump Golf Links in Ferry Point is operated by the Trump Organization on public land owned by the city.Members of the City Council called on Mayor Eric Adams to end the city's contract with the Trump Organization on Thursday.

The Council was joined in its efforts by several people who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. They expressed anger at the golf course’s plans to host the upcoming Aramco Team Series women’s golf tournament, which is sponsored by the government of Saudi Arabia. “If the American golfers and the former president don’t want to stand up for the 9/11 families in their fight for justice and accountability, I wish they would at least stand up for their fellow citizens that had to decide whether they should jump from the 100th floor or burn alive,” said Dennis McGinley, who was overcome with emotion as he read aloudpiece he authored that ran in the USA TODAY Network. McGinley lost his older brother Danny in the attacks.

Councilmembers argued that the permitting issue should be revived due to a series of legal troubles facing the Trump Organization. They claim that the guilty plea from Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg in August to a litany of charges — from tax fraud to falsifying business records — means that the contract should be reconsidered. They also point to other lawsuits against the former president himself.

Max Young, Mayor Adams’ communications director, said the mayor had been advised against appearing at the hearing “because of ongoing litigation risk.”

Last I checked he hasn’t been convicted of any crime. To take it away from him, without merit, would haveimpacts on the amount it could bring in in the future

Stop the witch hunt.

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Give him the same welcome they did in Scotland …!

How is this even a debate ?

Maybe Tish can stop harassing Trump

Turn it into a park with beautiful trees. All it is now is a scruffy-ass-looking expanse of brown-ass grass and dumb little hills that assault your eyes as you drive over the Whitestone

Golf is a waste of any parkland, period. Give it back to the people.

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