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At the first group dinner, she sits meekly in the boonies of the banquet room alongside a couple dozen of Moretti’s acolytes waiting for the head table to pass down a shared bread roll for everyone to take a bite.

Everything changed in early June, when the PGA Tour pulled off its own surprise by abruptly announcing that it had agreed in principle, along with the European tour, to join the Saudi backers of LIV in a commercial partnership that gave the Saudis what they wanted most of all: a seat at golf’s head table and another step toward sportswashing their terrible record on human rights.

Meanwhile, two of the most treacherous unregistered ChiCom lobbyists during my Trump years, Black Rock’s Larry Fink and Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, broke bread at the head table.

Mr. Schumer ended up at the head table with the president and first lady, as did the fashion designer Ralph Lauren, who designed Dr. Biden’s sequined green gown.

The president, dapper in a tuxedo, seemed relaxed as he sat at the head table on the dais along with Vice President Harris and other VIPs in the vast subterranean ballroom of the Washington Hilton.