As Trump Complains of Ukraine Favoritism for Biden Child, Scotland Rejects Eric Trump Scheme...

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October 3, 2019 3:02PM ET
As Trump Complains of Ukraine Favoritism for Biden Child, Scotland Rejects Eric Trump Scheme to Enrich First Family
Trump is against influence peddling through the children of elected officials as long as they’re not his own kids
By Tim Dickinson


When it comes to denouncing the practice of enriching the children of elected officials, Donald Trump is casting stones from inside a glass house. As Trump rails each day against the business deals that Hunter Biden allegedly benefitted from as son of the vice president, he is counting on America to forget that his daughter Ivanka, a senior adviser in his administration, is profiting from the Trump International Hotel — a den of open influence-peddling in Washington — or that his sons are the top executives of the Trump Organization, the profits from which benefit the president personally.

Just perhaps, what Trump is really mad about is that his kids are not winning the kind of rich deals abroad that he feels should accrue to the scions of the president of the United States.

The latest failure? Scotland has rejected Eric Trump’s pitch to develop luxury housing around the Trump Turnberry golf resort. President Trump has long bragged about his golf resorts as development deals, insisting in 2016, “I have the right to build thousands of homes” on his European golf properties.

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Rep. Elijah Cummings, head of the House Oversight committee, has raised constitutional red flags over this practice in a letter to the Defense Department: “Given the President’s continued financial stake in his Scotland golf courses, these reports raise questions about the President’s potential receipt of U.S. or foreign governments’ emoluments in violation of the U.S. Constitution,” he wrote, “and raise other serious conflict of interest concerns.”

But for Trump, conflicts of interest are for other people. The most shameless man ever to occupy the Oval Office has no compunction about decrying the business deals of other politicians’ children, even as he and his own kin profit off the presidency. In fact, the president has openly suggested that the interests of the Trump Organization are the same as the foreign-policy interests of the United States and its top allies.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-ukraine-favoritism-biden-scotland-rejects-golf-894520/

[safeinOhio]

1. "How the Scots Saved the World"

History.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. K&R

[Generic Other]

3. Don't count on seeing the last of Eric

I hear he's got big plans for the future. After Daddy gets his Space Force, they plan to layover on the moon.

[llmart]

4. I can't imagine why anyone would want to associate or tie themselves to the Trump name.

It's going to be more toxic now than ever before.

[machoneman]

5. The Scots WILL do in his Turnberry golf course.

The sooner it goes belly-up the better to enrage him. Love it!

[keithbvadu2]

6. The native land of Eric's grandmother.

The native land of Eric's grandmother.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Kick