Trump is using military to keep his Scotland property afloat

[Anonymous]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337

In early Spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the U.S. to Kuwait to deliver supplies.

What wasn’t routine was where the crew stopped along the way: President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow, Scotland.

Since April, the House Oversight Committee has been investigating why the crew on the C-17 military transport plane made the unusual stay — both en route to the Middle East and on the way back — at the luxury waterside resort, according to several people familiar with the incident. But they have yet to receive any answers from the Pentagon.

The inquiry is part of a broader, previously unreported probe into U.S. military expenditures at and around the Trump property in Scotland. According to a letter the panel sent to the Pentagon in June, the military has spent $11 million on fuel at the Prestwick Airport — the closest airport to Trump Turnberry — since October 2017, fuel that would be cheaper if purchased at a U.S. military base. The letter also cites a Guardian report that the airport provided cut-rate rooms and free rounds of golf at Turnberry for U.S. military members.

Taken together, the incidents raise the possibility that the military has helped keep Trump’s Turnberry resort afloat — the property lost $4.5 million in 2017, but revenue went up $3 million in 2018.

On previous trips to the Middle East, the C-17 had landed at U.S. air bases such as Ramstein Air Base in Germany or Naval Station Rota in Spain to refuel, according to one person familiar with the trips. Occasionally the plane stopped in the Azores and once in Sigonella, Italy, both of which have U.S. military sites, the person added.

But on this particular trip, the plane landed in Glasgow — a pitstop the five-man crew had never experienced in their dozens of trips to the Middle East. The location lacked a U.S. base and was dozens of miles away from the crew’s overnight lodging at the Turnberry resort.

How long the country will go on keeping quiet? Where does this end?

[Anonymous]

Emoluments.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure that aircrew was appreciative of a little downtime at such a nice place.

Globemasters aren’t like flying commercial. They’re slower, wayyyyyy louder inside, and generally are about as comfortable as riding on a wood bench in the back of a moving truck. I’d be thrilled at the prospect of a sauna dip and a comfy bed after 6,000 miles on a C17.

Good for Trump for thinking of those Airmen’s comfort. That’s class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure that aircrew was appreciative of a little downtime at such a nice place.

Globemasters aren’t like flying commercial. They’re slower, wayyyyyy louder inside, and generally are about as comfortable as riding on a wood bench in the back of a moving truck. I’d be thrilled at the prospect of a sauna dip and a comfy bed after 6,000 miles on a C17.

Good for Trump for thinking of those Airmen’s comfort. That’s class.

That's not what he was thinking of.

[Anonymous]

Grifters gonna grift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure that aircrew was appreciative of a little downtime at such a nice place.

Globemasters aren’t like flying commercial. They’re slower, wayyyyyy louder inside, and generally are about as comfortable as riding on a wood bench in the back of a moving truck. I’d be thrilled at the prospect of a sauna dip and a comfy bed after 6,000 miles on a C17.

Good for Trump for thinking of those Airmen’s comfort. That’s class.

Oh right - that's what these service men and women sign up for - to be the beneficiaries of our President's graft. Good to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure that aircrew was appreciative of a little downtime at such a nice place.

Globemasters aren’t like flying commercial. They’re slower, wayyyyyy louder inside, and generally are about as comfortable as riding on a wood bench in the back of a moving truck. I’d be thrilled at the prospect of a sauna dip and a comfy bed after 6,000 miles on a C17.

Good for Trump for thinking of those Airmen’s comfort. That’s class.

This!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure that aircrew was appreciative of a little downtime at such a nice place.

Globemasters aren’t like flying commercial. They’re slower, wayyyyyy louder inside, and generally are about as comfortable as riding on a wood bench in the back of a moving truck. I’d be thrilled at the prospect of a sauna dip and a comfy bed after 6,000 miles on a C17.

Good for Trump for thinking of those Airmen’s comfort. That’s class.

So the money aspect has escaped you.

Oh well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure that aircrew was appreciative of a little downtime at such a nice place.

Globemasters aren’t like flying commercial. They’re slower, wayyyyyy louder inside, and generally are about as comfortable as riding on a wood bench in the back of a moving truck. I’d be thrilled at the prospect of a sauna dip and a comfy bed after 6,000 miles on a C17.

Good for Trump for thinking of those Airmen’s comfort. That’s class.

They couldn't afford to eat at the property on their per diem.

Class.

[Anonymous]

It sounds as though you are claiming the airmen resented this? I don't know about you but, I stay in plenty of hotels I'd prefer not to eat in. This doesn't sound like the case here though. I'm finicky and would prefer an amazing mattress, night thread count sheets and fantastic pillows over a meal any day. I shouldn't speak for them though. Interesting others are speaking for them though. Oh well.

[Anonymous]

*High thread count.

[Anonymous]

I'm a taxpayer. I resent it.

The fuel cost was more. Read the article.

[Anonymous]

This is a clear cut violation of the Constitution.

[Anonymous]

From what I understand (and correct me if I’m wrong) the nearby airport was in danger of shutting down due to declining revenue. Closure of that airport would have been the fatal blow to Trump’s failing resort. So Trump found a way to prop up the airport - with our tax dollars, of course. Despicable - and an obvious violation of the emoluments clause. When will this flagrant corruption end?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From what I understand (and correct me if I’m wrong) the nearby airport was in danger of shutting down due to declining revenue. Closure of that airport would have been the fatal blow to Trump’s failing resort. So Trump found a way to prop up the airport - with our tax dollars, of course. Despicable - and an obvious violation of the emoluments clause. When will this flagrant corruption end?

I don’t know, but I bet a bunch of military careers are going to end over this.