Air Force crew made an odd stop on a routine trip: Trump’s Scottish resort

[rightwinger]

The Great Obama contributes to the poor
Trump refuses to show us

The poor will love Martha's Vineyard

Who wouldn’t?
I prefer Nantucket myself

 

[rightwinger]

Did they? I guess they want to keep their jobs huh?

Too bad they refuse to respond to Congressional oversight huh?

There is no congressional oversight....all Nadler and his stone-faced communists are interested in is taking down a president they can't defeat in an election. The AF told the press jackals the truth but they're not interested in the truth.

Accountability

If Trump was not hiding everything there would be no need

 

[bendog]

Now the layover is part of a broader House inquiry into military spending at and around the Trump property.

In early Spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the U.S. to Kuwait to deliver supplies.

What wasn’t routine was where the crew stopped along the way: President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow, Scotland.

Since April, the House Oversight Committee has been investigating why the crew on the C-17 military transport plane made the unusual stay — both en route to the Middle East and on the way back — at the luxury waterside resort, according to several people familiar with the incident. But they have yet to receive any answers from the Pentagon.

The inquiry is part of a broader, previously unreported probe into U.S. military expenditures at and around the Trump property in Scotland. According to a letter the panel sent to the Pentagon in June, the military has spent $11 million on fuel at the Prestwick Airport — the closest airport to Trump Turnberry — since October 2017, fuel that would be cheaper if purchased at a U.S. military base. The letter also cites a Guardian report that the airport provided cut-rate rooms and free rounds of golf at Turnberry for U.S. military members.

Taken together, the incidents raise the possibility that the military has helped keep Trump’s Turnberry resort afloat — the property lost $4.5 million in 2017, but revenue went up $3 million in 2018.

“The Defense Department has not produced a single document in this investigation,” said a senior Democratic aide on the oversight panel. “The committee will be forced to consider alternative steps if the Pentagon does not begin complying voluntarily in the coming days.”

The Pentagon, Air Force and White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Wow, this is very strange. It's also somewhat alarming that the Air Force and Pentagon are not responding to congressional inquires. Has Trump co-opted our military?

A yuuuuge supply of frozen Big Macs and Fries

 

[FA_Q2]

WE GOT HIM NOW....... Episode #1,999,346

Do you morons understand the military ALWAYS supports near by infrastructure in case it needs it? Are you going to investigate all of Obama's friends with properties around airbases and navel ports to see if HE GOT THE SAME TREATMENT?

Actually in this case they do not. They normally refuel at a military base rather than go out of their way to a Trump resort.

This is false. It has been pointed out many times.

The fact is that there was a contract at that airport. It means that stopping there is not only normal but a rather standard thing to do.

As we have contracts with many, many civilian airports.

 

[FA_Q2]

Just imagine the NaziCon outrage if President Obama had done something like this. Thankfully, President Obama wasn't a grifter.

You are right, they would have lost their heads. Just like you are. Are you satisfied that you act exactly like a 'NaziCon.'

I will never understand why wingers are so eager to emulate (and point out they are emulating) those they claim to hate.

It was the cheapest place.

Duh, no it wasn't.

Actually, it was the same price for the military. The military pays a FIXED price to the crew for the hotel they stay at. The crew are the ones that not only decided to stay there but also the ones that foot the bill for overages.

 

[FA_Q2]

But he gave up his $400,000 presidential salary....

Make Trump America Great Again.


The US military may have spent millions to help prop up a Trump resort

The House Oversight Committee is investigating military spending at an airport near a Trump property in Ayer, Scotland, as well as visits to that property by service members, in the latest of a growing number of inquiries into government expenditures that seem to financially benefit President Donald Trump and his businesses.

The military has spent $11 million on fuel alone at the Prestwick Airport near Trump’s Turnberry resort since fall of 2017, Politico reported. And reporting by the Guardianfound the airport has provided discounted rooms and complimentary rounds of golf at the Trump resort for some US military members. The expenditures are unusual given buying fuel from Prestwick Airport costs the government (and, ultimately, taxpayers) more than refueling at military bases, such as the nearby Lakenheath Air Base in England.

And the stays at Trump resorts are equally as unusual and costly, as Politico’s Natasha Bertrand and Bryan Bender note in their account of the experiences of five Air National Guard troops who stayed the Turnberry resort this year while on a mission to Kuwait:

One crew member was so struck by the choice of hotel — markedly different than the Marriotts and Hiltons the 176th maintenance squadron is used to — that he texted someone close to him and told him about the stay, sending a photo and noting that the crew’s per diem allowance wasn’t enough to cover food and drinks at the ritzy resort.​

The spending captured the attention of the House Oversight Committee, and in June, it sent the Pentagon a letter demanding an explanation. The Department of Defense, however, has refused to turn over any documents to investigators.

Trump has been under scrutiny since the beginning of his presidency for refusing to divest his interests in his businesses. And as recently as last week, when it was reported Trump suggested Vice President Mike Pence stay at one of his hotels during a visit to Ireland, the president has been accused of using his office to enrich himself.

The US military may have spent millions to help prop up a Trump resort

How is it enriching the Trump resort when the airport is owned by the Scottish government?

Aside from the fact that without a nearby airport, people are less likely to go there, military members are also staying there.

What what would be best would to compare it to prior administrations. How often did they use Trump resorts and divert to nearby airports instead of military airports for refueling compared to now. Any idea?

I don't know. You don't know. And how often they use Trump resorts is, again, not relevant BECAUSE IT IS THE CREW THAT CHOOSES WHERE TO STAY. That little fact is something that you seem to be unable to comprehend here.

You are bitching about it because you have no idea about anything here. And do you have any indication that they 'diverted' to this airport? Do you have any idea how a flight plan is even established?

All I see here is an incredible amount of willful ignorance around this.

 

[MAGAman]

Did they? I guess they want to keep their jobs huh?

Too bad they refuse to respond to Congressional oversight huh?

So you extend your lying slanders to the military.

If figures.

America haters never support those that risk their lives to protect their own sorry asses

 

[MAGAman]

Accountability

If Trump was not hiding everything there would be no need

Trump isn't going to bend over for your Fascist inquisition.

You lose again.

 

[Coyote]

Just imagine the NaziCon outrage if President Obama had done something like this. Thankfully, President Obama wasn't a grifter.

You are right, they would have lost their heads. Just like you are. Are you satisfied that you act exactly like a 'NaziCon.'

I will never understand why wingers are so eager to emulate (and point out they are emulating) those they claim to hate.

It was the cheapest place.

Duh, no it wasn't.

Actually, it was the same price for the military. The military pays a FIXED price to the crew for the hotel they stay at. The crew are the ones that not only decided to stay there but also the ones that foot the bill for overages.

Do you have a link to support that?

 

[Coyote]

Did they? I guess they want to keep their jobs huh?

Too bad they refuse to respond to Congressional oversight huh?

So you extend your lying slanders to the military.

If figures.

America haters never support those that risk their lives to protect their own sorry asses

Why do they refuse to respond?

 

[MAGAman]

Why do they refuse to respond?

Why don't you disclose all of your private information in this thread?

Trump isn't obligated to disclose his private information every time some Fascist Democrat want to fish around looking for dirt.

You may have heard of the Bill of Rights.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Just imagine the NaziCon outrage if President Obama had done something like this. Thankfully, President Obama wasn't a grifter.

You are right, they would have lost their heads. Just like you are. Are you satisfied that you act exactly like a 'NaziCon.'

I will never understand why wingers are so eager to emulate (and point out they are emulating) those they claim to hate.

It was the cheapest place.

Duh, no it wasn't.

Actually, it was the same price for the military. The military pays a FIXED price to the crew for the hotel they stay at. The crew are the ones that not only decided to stay there but also the ones that foot the bill for overages.

Do you have a link to support that?

I posted it already. Post #357.

 

[jc456]

 

[IM2]

Barack and Michelle Obama each just sold a book in a joint deal that appears to be bigger than any previous presidential book deal in history. Reportedly, they are making $65 million, which is an unprecedented amount of money for a presidential memoir.
What the Obamas’ $65 million book advance actually means

Breaking News.

Political hack gets filthy rich being a politician.

Jealousy gets you nowhere. Especially when other presidents have done the same thing.

 

[IM2]

So-*******-what, you dumb Injun? Why don't you crawl back into your bottle and do one of your silly little rain dances? You'll feel a lot better.

You better thank my Native American brother for his ancestors not wiping yours out when they first got here.

 

[MAGAman]

Jealousy gets you nowhere. Especially when other presidents have done the same thing.

I'm happy Obama discovered the joys of unregulated free market capitolism. He may secretly vote for Trump.

But he'll never be a successful $Billionaire business man like Trump.... Speaking of envy.

 

[MAGAman]

You better thank my Native American brother for his ancestors not wiping yours out when they first got here.

Black Americans need to thank his ancestors as well, for otherwise most would be living in a 3rd world shithole

 

[FA_Q2]

Just imagine the NaziCon outrage if President Obama had done something like this. Thankfully, President Obama wasn't a grifter.

You are right, they would have lost their heads. Just like you are. Are you satisfied that you act exactly like a 'NaziCon.'

I will never understand why wingers are so eager to emulate (and point out they are emulating) those they claim to hate.

It was the cheapest place.

Duh, no it wasn't.

Actually, it was the same price for the military. The military pays a FIXED price to the crew for the hotel they stay at. The crew are the ones that not only decided to stay there but also the ones that foot the bill for overages.

Do you have a link to support that?

Per Diem Rates - Military & Government Travel

I have direct experience here as I was a maintainer on C-17 aircraft. IF the crew picks a hotel that is below the per diem lodging rate the military does not pay the overage. I will give you one guess as to how often that happens. ME&I is hard - you get to keep what is not spent. Enlisted save there. The crew rarely does.

 

[Lakhota]

There is no end to Trump's grifting!

 

[MAGAman]

There is no end to Trump's grifting!

Donating his $400 000.00 salary every year is kinda strange for a grifter.

That's over $1,000,000.00 at this point.

If you thought more, and hated less you'd make a complete fool of yourself less often.