Beholden again
Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort must pay the Scottish government’s legal costs following a court battle over a major North Sea wind power development.
Mr Trump battled unsuccessfully in the courts to halt the project before he became US president.
Why?
Mr Trump had argued the development would spoil the view from his golf course at Menie.
Goodness, that takes a lot of nerve. You buy a golf course in a foreign country and then you expect to be able to veto anything that country wants to build within sight of your golf course? Like, you own everything as far as the eye can see?
Good that it didn’t work. Even better that he has to pay costs.
Also, hello emoluments clause.
Not beyond the Framers’ contemplation at all, @Fahrenthold: A loan *from* a foreign government is a standard form of financial benefit & thus an Emolument — especially if it’s on favorable terms, or if the borrower is a deadbeat who couldn’t get that loan domestically https://t.co/6p9sWp3ktk
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 1, 2019
Small mercies: there are far worse places than Scotland to be beholden to. However, Trump being Trump, he is probably beholden to those worse places as well.
I wouldn’t be so sure, Holms. There’s not much worse than having a couple of Glaswegian debt collectors turning up with their studded baseball bats on the doorstep.
I’d think that if there was one country most of the founders didn’t want to be beholden to, it’s the UK.
Speaking of Trump’s golf courses, About a dozen trees cut, dumped into Potomac River at Trump golf club in Virginia.