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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 05:52 PM Jul 2018

Trump lost millions at golf courses in Scotland. U.S. voters weren't told that.

Trump lost millions at golf courses in Scotland. U.S. voters weren’t told that.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article214265614.html

President Donald Trump’s pair of golf resorts in Scotland have steadily lost money, with losses calculated at $23 million the last year his company reported figures to United Kingdom officials.

U.S. voters may not know that.

That’s because Trump told U.S. officials that Trump Turnberry earned $15 million and Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen earned $3.8 million in what he describes as “golf-related revenue” for roughly the same period of time.

Trump, who is expected to visit his Turnberry property this weekend while on a week-long trip to Europe, appears to have masked some of his company’s problems in Scotland on his personal financial disclosure required of U.S. government officials, according to several experts who reviewed the document.
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Beartracks

(12,809 posts)
2. Trump only played a rich guy on TV. He's pretty much a business failure.
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 06:00 PM
Jul 2018

Who knew that chaos, ego, and ignorance are a lousy combination for running businesses... and governments?

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Squinch

(50,949 posts)
4. Trump has lost millions on virtually every business venture he has ever been involved in. US voters
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 06:03 PM
Jul 2018

WERE told that. Too many of them didn't care. They cared more about sticking it to the liberals.

Takket

(21,558 posts)
6. multiple bankruptcies, propped up by hundreds of millions from Putin............
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 06:41 PM
Jul 2018

he isn't just one of the worst businessmen of all time, he's a traitor. He sold out his country because his ego couldn't handle being the failure that his stupidity made him. Putin saw that and used it to manipulate him for years.

catrose

(5,065 posts)
5. "Trump...appears to have masked some of his company's problems in Scotland...
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 06:32 PM
Jul 2018

...on his personal financial disclosure required of U.S. government officials."

Translation: Lied on official forms

And this is okay why?
I wish I didn't remember the reaction to President Clinton's sex life. "It's the LYING," I seem to remember someone moaning.

Takket

(21,558 posts)
7. why do we even have these forms? do they even mean anything?
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 06:42 PM
Jul 2018

if you can just lie on them and it doesn't matter, then why are we even wasting our time?

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