New Trump Corruption: Military Money For His Scotland Resort
Joy Reid opened her show this morning with a shocking new revelation from Politico about an Air Force crew’s “odd stop on a routine trip” delivering supplies to Kuwait from the U.S., i.e. to Trump’s Scottish resort. “If you have not seen it yet, you are going to want to sit down,” Rachel Maddow said in a clip from her rundown of the report last night. She wasn’t kidding.
As Reid explained, the House Oversight Committee has been investigating why the crew made a stay at a luxury resort, both en route to Kuwait and back, rather than at the usual Marriotts and Hiltons. One crew member noted this his per diem allowance was not enough to cover food and drinks there. “It’s spending that could directly violate the Constitution's foreign and domestic emoluments clauses which prohibit the president from earning money for himself from foreign or domestic government sources,” Reid pointed out.
This is just part of a "broader, previously unreported probe into U.S. military expenditures at and around the Trump property in Scotland," Politico reported.
Coincidentally, the money couldn't have come at a better time for Trump. According to Politico, his Turnberry property “lost $4.5 million in 2017, but revenue went up $3 million in 2018.”