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Donald Trump throwing tantrum over calls for UK ban, says activist
Source: The Guardian
Donald Trump throwing tantrum over calls for UK ban, says activist
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
Thursday 7 January 2016 13.58 GMT
The campaigner whose petition to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK was signed by more than half a million people has dismissed the tycoon’s threat to shelve £700m worth of investment in Scotland as a “temper tantrum”.
Trump threatened to withdraw investment worth more than £200m in a South Ayrshire resort and £500m in his golf course in Aberdeen after it emerged that MPs would debate banning him from entering the UK over his pledge to ban Muslims from entering the US.
Suzanne Kelly, whose online petition triggered the Commons debate on 18 January, dismissed Trump’s move as “sheer hypocrisy”. She said: “Here in Aberdeen, we have seen these wildly inflated figures bandied about for years, and he never invests as much as he claims.
“The man who wants to be president of the United States, rather than taking this opportunity to apologise for painting all Muslims as terrorists who need to be monitored and kept out of America, has taken the opportunity to throw a temper tantrum instead.”
Kelly noted that Trump, a frontrunner in the race to become the Republican presidential candidate, had previously threatened to pull investment from his Aberdeenshire course if a planned offshore windfarm went ahead.
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
Thursday 7 January 2016 13.58 GMT
The campaigner whose petition to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK was signed by more than half a million people has dismissed the tycoon’s threat to shelve £700m worth of investment in Scotland as a “temper tantrum”.
Trump threatened to withdraw investment worth more than £200m in a South Ayrshire resort and £500m in his golf course in Aberdeen after it emerged that MPs would debate banning him from entering the UK over his pledge to ban Muslims from entering the US.
Suzanne Kelly, whose online petition triggered the Commons debate on 18 January, dismissed Trump’s move as “sheer hypocrisy”. She said: “Here in Aberdeen, we have seen these wildly inflated figures bandied about for years, and he never invests as much as he claims.
“The man who wants to be president of the United States, rather than taking this opportunity to apologise for painting all Muslims as terrorists who need to be monitored and kept out of America, has taken the opportunity to throw a temper tantrum instead.”
Kelly noted that Trump, a frontrunner in the race to become the Republican presidential candidate, had previously threatened to pull investment from his Aberdeenshire course if a planned offshore windfarm went ahead.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/07/donald-trump-temper-tantrum-uk-ban-activist-scotland
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