Former US president Donald Trump has touched down in Scotland, declaring “it’s great to be home”, as he visits his golf programs forward of a visit to Ireland.
Mr Trump landed in Aberdeen on Monday morning having introduced he will likely be opening a “spectacular” second course on the Menie Estate within the north-east of the nation.
He arrived at Aberdeen Airport at about 11.30am and was met by two pipers, a pink carpet and 10-vehicle motorcade. He instructed reporters ready on the tarmac, “It’s great to be home,” referencing the very fact Scotland is the house of his mom. He put his fist within the air after which stepped right into a car parked on the backside of the airplane steps.
The airplane with Donald Trump on board lands in Aberdeen, Scotland on Monday morning
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Following his time in Scotland, he’ll head to his course in Doonbeg on Ireland’s west coast.
It comes after the billionaire, who’s operating for the White House once more in 2024 and is seen by many because the presumptive Republican nominee, mentioned his marketing campaign is “on his mind”, stressing {that a} victory for him would make America “greater than ever before”.
Former US President Donald Trump gestures to members of the media on the tarmac after disembarking “Trump Force One” at Aberdeen Airport
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But since leaving the White House, Mr Trump has continued to face a cloud of lawsuits and investigations, which has culminated in him changing into the primary present or former US president to ever be charged with against the law.
On 30 March, a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Mr Trump on prison prices over the hush cash funds to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels within the days earlier than the 2016 presidential election. A number of days later, Mr Trump pleaded not responsible in Manhattan Criminal Court to a slew of prison prices.
Mr Trump landed in Aberdeen on Monday morning having introduced he will likely be opening a “spectacular” second course on the Menie Estate within the north-east of the nation
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“Will be leaving for Scotland & Ireland soon in order to see and inspect my great properties there,” he wrote on social media forward of his journey.
“The golf courses and hotels are among the greatest in the world – Turnberry and Aberdeen, in Scotland, and Doonbeg, in Ireland.
“Will be meeting with many wonderful friends, and cutting a ribbon for a new and spectacular second course in Aberdeen.
“Very exciting despite the fact that it is ‘make America great again’ that is on my mind, in fact, America will be greater than ever before.”
The former US president has a variety of golf programs within the nation
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The tycoon’s journey to Scotland comes as he additionally faces authorized bother in his native New York over his enterprise practices.
He has pleaded not responsible to prices of falsifying enterprise information to cover damaging info forward of the 2016 presidential election.
Mr Trump had beforehand spent two days at his Turnberry course whereas in workplace in 2018, assembly Theresa May and the Queen in the course of the go to.
Asked final week if he’ll meet Mr Trump, who has made controversial statements about Muslims prior to now, First Minister Humza Yousaf mentioned: “I would find it difficult, I have to say, to meet with him without raising the significance of concerns I have of the remarks that he’s made in the past.”
Since leaving the White House, Mr Trump has continued to face a cloud of lawsuits and investigations
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Mr Trump can also be presently going through a civil trial introduced by E Jean Carroll, who has alleged she was raped by him near 30 years in the past and that he has now defamed her by denying it occurred.
His lawyer Joe Tacopina has been scolded by the decide as a result of his “argumentative, repetitive, and inappropriate” questioning of the alleged sufferer about why she didn’t scream in the course of the alleged rape in a dressing room in Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman division retailer. Judge Lewis Kaplan additionally turned impatient with the lawyer and warned him about his line of questioning.
Ms Carroll will return to the stand on Monday morning when the trial continues.
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