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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDefense Dept. finalizes contract for MORE refueling stops near Trump's Turnberry, through 2024.
To make sense of this, it helps to read both the Yahoo AND Scotsman links:https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-turnberry-us-military-prestwick-refueling-contract-2024-024944609.html
Even as House lawmakers investigate suspicious U.S. military refueling stops close to Donald Trumps Turnberry golf resort, a Defense Department agency is finalizing a new contract for continued stops at the airport into 2024, The Scotsman newspaper has reported.
The House Oversight Committee is investigating refueling stops at the remote Glasgow Prestwick Airport just 23 miles from Trumps Turnberry resort in Scotland. Military personnel stayed nights at Turnberry, spending federal funds for lodging and food that went to the presidents company, both Politico and The New York Times reported.
The fuel could have been obtained more cheaply at an American military base.
Both the government-owned Prestwick and Trumps Turnberry have struggled financially, but their bottom lines have improved since Trump moved into the White House.
A powerful committee in the US Congress has launched an inquiry into spending by the US Defence Department at the Scottish Government owned Prestwick Airport amid concerns of "serious conflicts of interest" and potential violations over military custom at the loss making hub and President Donald Trump's nearby Turnberry resort.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said US military spending at the publicly owned South Ayrshire airport had "increased substantially" since Trump came to office, and points out that the airport is "integral" to Turnberry's financial success.
Its comes after a recent Scotsman investigation detailed how Prestwick's parent company has received more than £9.02m for 644 orders to refuel US Armed Forces aircraft between October 2017 and March this year.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/congress-probe-as-us-military-spending-increase-at-prestwick-airport-linked-to-trump-turnberry-1-4999593
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said US military spending at the publicly owned South Ayrshire airport had "increased substantially" since Trump came to office, and points out that the airport is "integral" to Turnberry's financial success.
Its comes after a recent Scotsman investigation detailed how Prestwick's parent company has received more than £9.02m for 644 orders to refuel US Armed Forces aircraft between October 2017 and March this year.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/congress-probe-as-us-military-spending-increase-at-prestwick-airport-linked-to-trump-turnberry-1-4999593
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Defense Dept. finalizes contract for MORE refueling stops near Trump's Turnberry, through 2024. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Sep 2019
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AJT
(5,240 posts)1. Once the military goes all in on 45 we are screwed.
triron
(21,916 posts)7. The frosting on the coup that started in 2016. Dictatorship Trump style.
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)2. there was this article too from June
Key figures within the SNP, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, are among the most high-profile critics in Britain of Mr Trump and his administrations foreign policy.
The SNPs Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, last year criticised Prime Minister Theresa May for appearing beholden to the US president instead of parliament over the UKs role in Syrian air strikes, and accused her government of having danced to the tune of President Trump.
The lucrative deal with the US military is now the beleaguered airports single biggest revenue stream by some considerable distance. In the first three months of 2019, for instance, the DLA authorised payments to Prestwick worth £1.4m. That is more than twice the revenue generated via passenger services in the entirety of 2017/18.
No details are available of the aircraft that were refuelled or the nature of their engagement, but the payments spiked in October and November last year, a period which coincided with intensive US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Somalia, according to data collated by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Jackie Baillie, the Scottish Labour MSP for Dumbarton and a prominent critic of the governments stewardship of Prestwick, said: The SNP government is guilty of the most breathtaking hypocrisy. On the one hand they criticise Trump and his foreign policies and on the other Keith Brown runs to America touting for business for Prestwick from the US Air Force.
The US Air Force has confirmed that these aircraft are engaged in active missions but the SNP dont know what these are and seem happy to turn a blind eye in exchange for millions of pounds.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-government-owned-prestwick-airport-paid-9m-by-trump-administration-1-4954141
kentuck
(110,950 posts)3. The corruption is deep into the Defense Department .
This is bad.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)4. recommended to publicize
JI7
(89,182 posts)5. probably the real reason they got rid of Mattis
spanone
(135,636 posts)6. Wonder what trump charged TaylorMade to put their bag on his cart?
Bet he got a huge fee.....?