A top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee officially requested a probe of the several instances in the past year in which military personnel opted to stay overnight at President Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland.
Excellent. Except I have never heard of Senator Peters before, notwithstanding his representation of Michigan.
It might actually help Sen Peters if ttump starts attacking him. He’s up for reelection next year and is the most unknown senator to constituents.
I’d prefer to see more time spent on actually getting to the conclusion of one of the multitude of inquiries that have been started. I know there is litigation going on as to some, but things could be speeded up, at the very least in the pre-litigation stages.
Well, Trump’s goose is surely cooked now! A Democrat is demanding accountability!! This will not end well for Donnie, for sure!! I bet by 2031 justice will be served!!
Actually he’s just the Senator-(UP). His wife doesn’t allow him to cross the Mackinac Bridge.
Crossing that bridge is quite an experience. Very steep up, very steep down.
ETA. Sailing underneath it is a way better experience.
An inquiry into the self-dealing and corruption that pretty well defines all of the various national guard organizations will never end. It’s a bottomless pit of gud ol boyz and always has been.
Gary only been a Senator since 2015. He was a Congressman before that. It is easy to hide as a Congressman, focusing exclusively on constituent services and dialing for dollars, but it is harder to be an an anonymous Senator. He seems to have accomplished that high distinction.
Really Sen. Peters is hiding?
Well lets see what we all know about any of these Senators:
Sullivan-AK
Carper-DE
Risch-ID
Braun-IN
Young-IN
Cardin-MD
Smith-MN
Daines-MT
Cramer-ND
Hoeven-ND
Fischer-NE
Heinrich-NM
Cortez Masto-NV
Rosen-NV
Casey-PA
Reed-RI
And the point of my list is that it seems one senator of the pair usually has more name recognition, but damn Indiana, North Dakota, and New Mexico both of your Senators are hiding their light under a bushel.
It’s hard to hope that this will end with anything being done, but it’s good to keep it in the news cycle. Despite what apologists like Kevin McCarthy claim, my guess is that Airmen have little to no say in where they stay when they are on a layover like that, and there’s little chance that the Trivago app discovered that they could all stay one night for $100.
By Javanakas 2nd term, of course.
There is no need for investigation as what’s publicly reported is clear corruption. It should be a demand for the military to immediately stop spending funds at all Trump properties and for anyone who previously approved these type of spending to be disciplined.
I saw Braun (my senator) for the first time his election, last week on a short news clip. So unmemorable I can’t tell you the topic.
I have Blunt and Hawley Blunt has done nothing but be in politics for most of his life. He’s as dull as dishwater, second marriage is to a lobbyist, but he did spawn a MO Governor from his first wife.
Hawley is a true religious lawyerly type. He has no problem finding a topic or two make his name on. He recently traveled around the state meeting with people, and one of his top two take-a-ways is that meth is destroying rural Missouri, well duh and late to the duh.
Looking at the image of trump at the head of this article made me think: would you buy a used car from this man?
The expression, the spread arms, the body language all scream “I AM HERE TO BULLSHIT YOU AND SELL YOU CRAP YOU DON’T NEED”!!!
Bravo…perhaps one of these many attempts to nail Donnie Grifter will get some deserved traction…lord knows there are plenty of obvious instances to choose from…
He’s the only Democrat who wants this?
geez, all this reporting that I haven’t seen… like this from two days ago, mentioned in the Peters letter…
Also in September 2018, the Iowa Air National Guard, en route back to the U.S. from an official visit to Kosovo in a KC-135 plane, stopped to refuel in Scotland,…
The 185th air refueling wing out of Sioux City, Iowa, which was making the trip, had about 35 to 40 soldiers and airmen that needed lodging, and they ultimately stayed at Turnberry. According to the spokesperson, the crew doubled up in rooms and were provided transportation to and from Prestwick.
The Prestwick stop was due to fuel “limitations” on the flight out of Kosovo, the spokesperson said…
And the overnight stay at Turnberry was arranged through the Defense Travel System — essentially the Pentagon’s in-house travel agent — and “directed by a higher echelon … based on mission and operational requirements.”
First off…
How the hell did the Trump Turnberry Hotel become available within the Defense Travel System in the first place, considering that its regular room rates far exceed the DoD maximum of $166/day.
We’ve seen this “Defense Travel System” before. It was one of two explanations for how the C-17 crew from the original story wound up at Turnberry. The other explanation was the “private contractor” operating out of Glasgow Prestwick Airport (GPA) itself. THAT person supposedly has over a dozen local hotels to choose from – and supposedly, when that C-17 crew stayed at Turnberry, there was “no room at the inn” in any of the closer hotels.
Now, going through the GPA “private contractor” makes sense. The airport made a deal with the hotel back in 2014/2015.
But that was the airport’s deal. And if all the airport affiliated hotels are in the Defense Travel Service, then why would anyone need the ‘local contractor’ to book hotels? So no, I don’t think that all GPA local hotels are currently listed in the DTS databases. So again – what is Trump Turnberry doing in the Defense Travel System database? (I think I know an ‘innocent’ explanation… but even that one has lots of problems).
Next, Glasgow Prestwick is three hours by air from Kosovo. Why the hell did they need an overnight stay in Scotland, when all they needed was more fuel for the flight home?
The plane itself is a Stratotanker – one of those air-to-air refueling behemoths. It has a range of over 11,000 miles when its not carrying a load of fuel. But WTF is this plane doing in freaking Kosovo? Especially if there are “limitations on fuel”!!!
So you are suggesting that Trump will die of a heart attack in 2031?