Trump in Scotland to cut ribbon on new golf course
Conrad Hoyt
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Former President Donald Trump is in Scotland Monday to visit his golf courses, saying he is going to cut the ribbon on a second course in Aberdeen.
It is the first time the former commander in chief, whose lineage traces back to Scotland, will visit the United Kingdom since 2018.
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“Will be leaving for Scotland & Ireland soon in order to see and inspect my great properties there. The Golf Courses and Hotels are among the Greatest in the World – Turnberry and Aberdeen, in Scotland, and Doonbeg, in Ireland,” Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. “Will be meeting with many wonderful friends, and cutting a ribbon for a new and SPECTACULAR Second Course in Aberdeen.”
“Very exciting despite the fact that it is ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’ that is on my mind, in fact, America will be GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!” the former president added.
Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen opened in 2012. It is not clear how long he will stay or when he will visit Turnberry and then Doonbeg in Ireland.
The former president is on a reclamation effort as he gears up for the 2024 presidential election. While he has several Republican challengers, including former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and possibly Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump is seen as the favorite to likely challenge President Joe Biden for the privilege to sit in the Oval Office in 2025.
However, Trump’s circumstances are particularly complicated given the slew of legal troubles he faces. These court cases also make his visit abroad to the U.K. particularly surprising to some, as he is the only former president to face criminal charges. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 criminal charges in relation to falsifying business records over alleged “hush money” payments. Trump is being investigated for possibly obstructing the investigation into how classified records wound up at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, and he is also the subject of an investigation into whether he influenced the Jan. 6 riot at the United States Capitol.
Furthermore, Trump faces civil litigation against himself and his company for fraud in New York, a criminal investigation in Georgia over his possible interference in the 2020 presidential election, and a defamation trial brought by E. Jean Carroll, who says Trump raped her sometime in 1995 or 1996.
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As the former president’s own son Eric Trump put it, his father faces a “tsunami” of legal challenges.
Questions were raised in 2021 over Trump’s golf properties in Scotland and whether the former president engaged in money laundering.