Trump Organization ordered to pay $290,000 after losing battle against Scottish wind farm
Source: Washington Post
The Trump Organization has agreed to pay $290,000 to the Scottish government, ending a multiyear legal battle in which Donald Trump tried and failed to block an offshore wind farm from being built in view of one of his Scottish golf courses. The agreement to pay the governments legal fees ends the companys bitter public dispute with the Scottish government. Over the years, Trump repeatedly criticized the former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond about the wind farm and warned that it would cause almost total destruction of the countrys tourism industry.
A Scottish government spokesman said that the settlement first reported by the Scotsman newspaper removed the need for an independent auditor to determine expenses to be paid by the Trump Organization. Expenses amounting to ($290,000) will now be paid to Scottish Ministers by the Petitioners, the spokesman said in a statement. The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment. President Trump has a long-standing disdain for wind power that has carried over into his political speeches. Trump has said windmills cause cancer, kill birds and prevent people from watching television when the winds not blowing.
The 11-turbine wind farm in Aberdeen Bay began operating last summer and is clearly visible from the fairways and greens of the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, outside the northeastern city of Aberdeen. During the planning process for the wind farm, the Trump Organization sued the Scottish government to block it. Trump was angry at what he called a monstrous project and said the turbines would destroy the view of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world.
Trump wrote in a 2013 op-ed in the Scottish Mail on Sunday that he had instructed his lawyers to launch an all-out challenge to Mad Alex, as he called Salmond, to fight the wind farm in the country where Trumps mother was born. I am going to fight him for as long as it takes to hell if I have to and spend as much as it takes to block this useless and grotesque blot on our heritage, he wrote. Judges on the U.K. Supreme Court unanimously rejected Trumps legal challenge in 2015. In February, the Trump Organization was ordered to pay the Scottish governments legal bills. But the issue was not resolved for several months because the Scottish government said that the Trump Organization had not agreed to an amount.
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RainCaster
(10,866 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)and being a decent human being. Its entirely possible. Stranger things have happened. But I wouldnt bet on it.
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)quote:
President Trump has a long-standing disdain for wind power that has carried over into his political speeches. Trump has said windmills cause cancer, kill birds and prevent people from watching television when the winds not blowing.
safeinOhio
(32,673 posts)economy and was bringing up all the mining and energy jobs he has created.
riversedge
(70,187 posts)he has convinced them by now.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)............
NCjack
(10,279 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)Do you realize how hard it is to putt the ball through the spinning windmill blades? Windmills are the bane of every putt-putt golf course, including Trump's.
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)Captain Zero
(6,802 posts)I forgot about those damn things.
Denzil_DC
(7,232 posts)Trumps staff in Aberdeenshire did not respond to a request for comment on the decision to settle but last month told the Guardian the company had not refused to pay the legal bill.
Sarah Malone, the executive vice-president of the Trump golf resort, said in October: This is not in our control. The matter is in the hands of the auditors of the court of session and the Scottish ministers.
The company has recently admitted the resort was never developed along Trumps original plans because of the global recession in 2008 and the collapse in oil prices in 2014. Trump and his family firm have now loaned the business £43m and it has yet to turn a profit.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/12/trump-firm-settles-legal-bill-over-scottish-windfarm-dispute
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Put up a toll gate to his properties.
Then brag that China is paying it.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,306 posts)Looks like the family will have to pay out cash for once.
riversedge
(70,187 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)Because he is not going to pay this.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)the next time he is in Britain. Of course, that won't happen but it would
be the next best thing to the seizure of his debt-ridden properties.
Most certainly.
But is a president immune to arrest, as diplomats are?
DENVERPOPS
(8,810 posts)This is not the U.S. Republican appointed judges and controlled courts. They have no Republican Controlled Supreme Court or Dept of Justice........
I'm sure they are not going to screw around on this. If he doesn't pay, they should confiscate all assets and sell them for whatever they can get to satisfy the determined award if Trumpster doesn't pay in 30 days.
Of course, he may divert all U.S. military flights to an airport near the golf course to cover the fine........
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Never mind. Guess he will have to sell more MAGA hats and "Read the transcript" T shirts.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)No brain, no heart, no spine, how does he stand upright?
I've been told those are metaphors, rhetorical devices, or FAKE NEWS.
Just repaying all the golf trips, make sure it's cashier's checks only!
ancianita
(36,023 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)He's played the rich guy wastrel while he now lives off taxpayer money siphoned through his properties and scam orgs.
When his tax record comes out we'll see just where he's gotten his money and why he surrounds himself with fixers.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)and hide transactions.
He fails at golf, real-estate investments, gambling.
But that's not why he's doing it. It's because his owners need their checks cashed without traces.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)You can see factory smoke stacks and garbage from his property there, did he sue FL to remove them or relocate them so his guests wouldn't see these eyesores?
riversedge
(70,187 posts)Withywindle
(9,988 posts)...it makes me mad on Don Quixote's behalf
DENVERPOPS
(8,810 posts)I can quite literally vision the psycho out there attacking the towers with SHARPIES.....
riversedge
(70,187 posts)and just 5 days ago!
LOSER TRUMP
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Updated 7:34 PM ET, Thu November 7, 2019
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Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)America's biggest Loser.
The world's biggest Loser.
Captain Zero
(6,802 posts)Strike One: Lose your "charity", pay two million fine.
Strike Two: Lose your Scottish lawsuit pay a quarter million fine.
Strike Three: Impeachment