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Inside the Military's Five-Star Layovers at a Trump Resort
Source: New York Times
Inside the Military’s Five-Star Layovers at a Trump Resort
By David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Lipton
Sept. 12, 2019
Updated 6:56 p.m. ET
TURNBERRY, Scotland — The middle-aged golfers had finished their last single-malt whiskies late one night this July, and the bartenders were closing up.
Then a bus pulled up to the Trump Turnberry hotel on Scotland’s west coast with a load of new guests, several staff members said. The doormen, dressed in kilts with long feathers protruding from their berets, ushered in more than 50 uniformed American military service members.
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But an examination of military layovers at Turnberry, including a two-day stay by a reporter at the resort, reveals a more complicated picture.
There is little evidence of a systematic scheme to enrich Mr. Trump. But the military bookings at Turnberry are the latest in a series of episodes in which the president’s private businesses have intersected with his public position in ways that he can profit from.
The pattern also raises questions about how military officials failed to anticipate the questions that would accompany a large number of American military personnel marching into the opulent halls of one of the president’s golf resorts at public expense.
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By David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Lipton
Sept. 12, 2019
Updated 6:56 p.m. ET
TURNBERRY, Scotland — The middle-aged golfers had finished their last single-malt whiskies late one night this July, and the bartenders were closing up.
Then a bus pulled up to the Trump Turnberry hotel on Scotland’s west coast with a load of new guests, several staff members said. The doormen, dressed in kilts with long feathers protruding from their berets, ushered in more than 50 uniformed American military service members.
-snip-
But an examination of military layovers at Turnberry, including a two-day stay by a reporter at the resort, reveals a more complicated picture.
There is little evidence of a systematic scheme to enrich Mr. Trump. But the military bookings at Turnberry are the latest in a series of episodes in which the president’s private businesses have intersected with his public position in ways that he can profit from.
The pattern also raises questions about how military officials failed to anticipate the questions that would accompany a large number of American military personnel marching into the opulent halls of one of the president’s golf resorts at public expense.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/us/politics/trump-turnberry-military.html