Positively shocking: Trump's boasts of help from Sean Connery fall apart

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread in LBN: Sean Connery helped me get Scottish plans approved, says Trump

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Source: The Guardian

Positively shocking: Trump's boasts of help from Sean Connery fall apart

President claimed Bond actor helped him get planning permission for Scottish resort

Martin Belam and Libby Brooks
Sun 1 Nov 2020 18.52 GMT

It was less licence to kill and more dramatic licence. Donald Trump’s claim that the late Sean Connery assisted him in getting planning applications passed in Scotland fell apart quickly on Sunday when the chair of the planning committee said the James Bond star was not involved.

In a series of tweets, two days prior to the US election, Trump paid tribute to Connery, saying he was “highly regarded and respected in Scotland and beyond”. It was announced on Saturday the James Bond actor had died aged 90.

But his claim that Connery stepped in and shouted “let him build the damn thing” in connection with a big development raised eyebrows in Scotland.

Link to tweet

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But Martin Ford, the Aberdeenshire councillor who was chair of the planning committee that initially refused Trump’s application to build the resort, told the Guardian: “Mr Connery was not involved in the due process that led to the granting of planning permission for a golf resort at Menie. He did not submit a letter of representation to the council, appear at the planning hearing, or at the public local inquiry.”

Ford added: “Opinions offered in press articles are not material considerations in decisions on planning applications.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/01/sean-connery-help-donald-trump-scotland-planning-permission

[DonaldsRump]

1. I am neither shaken nor stirred by another lie by Trump

RIP in Sean Connery. Don't let this idiot bother you now that you're in a better place.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. The way Trump treated those family farm owners that refused to sell was absolutely disgusting.

That alone should have disqualified in the minds of anyone that works for a living.

I still don’t know why we didn’t use clips of him calling farmers pigs.

[Blue Owl]

3. "...past on"???

Jesus Fucking Christ Trump, learn how to fucking spell you goddamned idiot...

[Bleacher Creature]

4. Me! Me! Me! His narcissism is bottomless. NT

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Of course,

even dead people are all about Trump.

[Under The Radar]

6. The Big lie is always front page headlines,

the correction or retraction sets just in front of the classified ads. Few people ever notice the correction.

[Yoyoyo77]

7. I wonder?

It's interesting that the correction states that Connery's statement came in the form of a comment in the press and was framed as "Let him build the damn thing" , "Like Jesus Christ this guys driving us all crazy, let him build the damn thing"

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. RIP Mr. Connery

Go to hell trump.