Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a barbecue for families of 9/11 victims on Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, when former President Donald Trump provided the site of a Saudi-funded LIV Golf tournament.
DeSantis, who last week officially entered the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, hosted about 500 veterans, Gold Star families and relatives who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks at the Florida Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee, Florida, the New York Post reported.
Trump National golf course in Northern Virginia hosted the golf tournament.
One attendee at the governor's barbecue told the Post that DeSantis met privately with eight 9/11 families.
"It was just so remarkable and gracious that the governor of Florida invited us to his home," 37-year-old Brett Eagleson, whose father was killed while working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, told the Post.
"He gave us over an hour of his time and listened to every one of our stories."