Eric Trump threw a hissy fit in response to a Scottish lawmaker who called for an investigation into President Donald Trump and his business empire to determine if any financial crimes have been committed.
For years, Trump and his properties have been suspected of money laundering and other financial crimes, which Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie pointed out also includes Trump’s properties in Scotland.
“The purchase of the Menie Estate and the Turnberry golf resort were part of Trump’s huge cash spending spree in the midst of a global financial crisis, while his son was bragging about ‘money pouring in from Russia,'” Harvie began. “The US House Of Representatives has heard testimony that states: ‘We saw patterns of buying and selling that we thought were suggestive of money laundering.'”
Indeed, Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen even testified that Trump has done some pretty shady things financially, including tax evasion, bank fraud and insurance fraud. If Trump does it in the United States, he likely also does it overseas.
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“The testimony went on to express particular concern about ‘the golf courses in Scotland and Ireland,'” Harvie continued. “There are reasonable grounds for suspecting that his lawfully-obtained income was insufficient. Trump is a politically exposed person in terms of the law, and there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that he – or people he’s connected with – have been involved in serious crime. Some of them pleaded guilty. Scottish ministers can apply via the Court of Session for an Unexplained Wealth Order, a tool designed for precisely these kinds of situations.”
An investigation could certainly reveal that Trump and his properties committed financial crimes. And while an innocent person wouldn’t sweat such a probe because they have nothing to hide, Eric Trump flew into a rage and attacked Harvie in a statement referring to his request for a probe as “reckless, irresponsible and unbecoming for a member of the Scottish Parliament.”
“An irrelevant and spineless politician, Mr. Harvie has long expressed deep-seated animus toward the Trump Organization, its principals and its projects, making wildly inappropriate allegations to advance his own political agenda and gain attention,” Eric Trump said. “Over the past decade, the Trump Organization has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Scotland while creating thousands of jobs.”
“Mr. Harvie is a disgrace to the Scottish Parliament,” the statement continued. “His conduct does not serve the best interests of the Scottish people and he should be admonished and sanctioned for his conduct. We demand that he immediately retract his libelous statements failing which we will hold him fully accountable.”
In fact, Trump pledged to create thousands of jobs, but failed to deliver on that promise all while building a golf course that residents despise and charging taxpayers for a wall he had constructed to punish them for refusing to sell their homes by blocking their sea view. Only 200 jobs were created of the 60,000 promised.
Considering that poor treatment of the Scottish people, Trump is lucky they haven’t chased him out of the country and burned down his resort. If Trump really has nothing to hide, he will cooperate with the investigation should the Scottish government open one. But given how he has refused to cooperate with probes by Congress, they shouldn’t expect otherwise. And that just makes Trump look and act guilty.
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