Made Air Force stop overnight at his Scotland golf course
By PETER WADE
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019 1:43PM ET
According to a Friday report by Politico, an Air National Guard crew running supplies from the US to Kuwait was rerouted to stay at Trump’s Turnberry golf club and resort in Scotland. President Donald Trump’s golf courses in Ireland and Scotland have been losing money, and it appears Trump has been using government funds to prop up these properties by forcing military members and government officials to stay at his properties. This is highly unusual for the members of the military, who typically stay and refuel at military bases.
“The crew were so confused by what was happening when they were rerouted to Scotland to refuel at this tiny airport outside of Trump Turnberry because they had never done that before in the fifty-plus trips they had taken to do these routine supply trips,” Natasha Betrand, who broke the story along with Bryan Bender, said on The Rachel Maddow Show on Friday. “They didn’t have enough money; their per diem allowance didn’t even allow them to buy food and drinks there. They felt totally out of place.”
And the military appears to be complicit, refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the House Oversight Committee into the matter. “The Defense Department has not produced a single document in this investigation,” a senior Democratic aide on the oversight panel told Politico. “The committee will be forced to consider alternative steps if the Pentagon does not begin complying voluntarily in the coming days.”
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) noted in a June letter to the Department of Defense that U.S. military expenses at the small, struggling Prestwick airport near Turnberry “appear to have increased substantially since the election” to the tune of $11 million. Members of the committee also told Politico they are investigating not just the Turnberry stop but also military expenditures at other Trump-owned resorts and refueling stops at private airports near those resorts ...
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