Military has spent nearly $200,000 at Trump's Scottish resort since 2017

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The department did reveal that the average cost of a room at Turnberry for military service members from August 2017 to July 2019 was $189, and that Turnberry expenditures during that time period “amounted to $124,578.96” — plus an “an additional $59,729.12” in unspecified charges to government travel cards.

“If both of these claims are accurate, it appears that U.S. taxpayer funds were used to purchase the equivalent of more than 650 rooms at the Trump Turnberry just since August 2017 — or the equivalent of one room every night for more than one-and-a-half years,” the congressmen wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/military-has-spent-nearly-dollar200000-at-trumps-scottish-resort-since-2017/ar-AAHuCtq?ocid=spartandhp

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1. 200k sounds like someone is giving out an extremely low-ball figure. I don't buy that for a second.

And that's not the most significant figure anyway. That would be the amount siphoned off from the Treasury to keep the nearby airport afloat which keeps trump's remote golf resort accessible—the refueling costs of routing Air Force planes through Scotland and close to trump's resort.

That's got to be in the millions and isn't it curious they didn't release that figure. Talk about blatant self-dealling.

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3. I'll have to say, the Air Force really does it up for their people

If they were Army, they would’ve set up a bivouac on the golf course and got in some training. Lol