Trump ordered to pay legal fees after losing court battle over his Scottish golf course

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Trump ordered to pay legal fees after losing court battle over his Scottish golf course

Donald Trump will have to pay the Scottish government’s legal fees after a lengthy court dispute over a wind power development project near his golf resort that ended in a victory for Scotland in 2015.

Judges in Scotland ruled last week that the Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd must pay the legal costs of the court case, which began when Trump sued the government while he was running for president.

The president sought to stop the construction of 11 wind turbines on land next to his golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, arguing that the project would be esthetically unappealing.

The case eventually made its way to the U.K. Supreme Court in 2015, which rejected Trump’s case, allowing the Scottish government to move ahead with the project.

He certainly deserved to lose & to have to pay for the legal fees.

Trump appeared to be referencing the case on Saturday — while breaking the Constitution’s emoluments clause, which forbids a president from using the position and power of the office for personal financial gain — when he quote-tweeted a photo shared by the Trump Organization of his Aberdeen golf course.

Ethics experts and watchdogs also criticized Trump’s tweet. Former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics said Saturday, “This is Trump’s most explicit commingling of personal interests and public office to date.”

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He also tried to harass folks who lived along the road to the golf course on account of not liking the way their farms & homes, some of which had been owned for generations, looked. They'd been tidy, normal. Well instead of letting him bully them, they painted a huge sign calling Donald what they think he is, lol.
 
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It’s too bad the Trump Foundation dissolved before it could pay this legal bill for him.

Who needs a Foundation when you have the US Treasury?
 
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That's a scary thought. I could see Trump doing that, if he could.

I'm sure he could declare it a national emergency and his devoted followers will toe the line.
 
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I'm sure he could declare it a national emergency and his devoted followers will toe the line.

And after declaring another national emergency, he would just go golfing again like he did after he declared the national emergency concerning the southern border. You know, for a President who once insisted that he wouldn't have time for golf and he'd rarely leave the White House, Trump sure does find a lot of time to play golf. Maybe he forgot that he once said he wouldn't be a President who took vacations or a President who would take time off. Apparently he loves golf so much and he can't get enough of playing golf because he recently had a $50,000 golf simulator installed in the White House.

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And to think that he use to complain so much at former President Obama for playing golf.

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It’s too bad the Trump Foundation dissolved before it could pay this legal bill for him.
Well, there’s the Inauguration Committee. I hear they got plenty.
 
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Somebody tell Trump that he is aesthetically unappealing. Maybe he'll go away.

Lol. Trump was asked in an interview what he saw when he looked in a mirror. He said he saw a 35 year old man. This was a couple of years back, when he was already in his 70s or late 60s.

Of course the late night talk show hosts enjoyed him writing their joke for them, saying "that's not you, that's your wife."

Point being, Trump has a wildly distorted view about what's aesthetically appealing. He'd look like a decent enough fellow for his age if he just got a normal hair cut, stopped dying his hair & brows, stopped with the fake tanning & lost some weight.
 
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