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Trump ties with Scotland elite turn sour
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US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump clashed with Scotland’s political leaders yesterday after Britain’s supreme court threw out his bid to stop a wind farm being built near his Scottish golf course.
A day after battling with rival candidates in a Republican national security debate, the business tycoon entered a war of words with lawmakers in his mother’s homeland after losing his fight to block the building of 11 offshore turbines near his multi-million dollar resort.
In a statement, the Trump Organization flayed the Scottish government as “foolish, small minded and parochial,” while the Scottish National Party’s foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond replied that Trump was “three times a loser.”
The spat comes after a week when Trump’s call to deny Muslims entry to the United States was major news across the Atlantic, and led to his being stripped of two Scottish honorary positions and prompted a record petition calling for him to be banned from Britain.
The row centers on plans to build a wind farm off Blackdog in Aberdeenshire on Scotland’s northeastern coast, which Trump believes will spoil the view from his golf complex just 3.5 kilometers away.
Scotland’s SNP-run government overturned environmental and other objections to approve the golf course in 2010, the first phase of a 750 million pound (US$1.13 billion) project.
But three years later it approved the turbines, saying the US$350 million scheme would boost the local economy and power thousands of homes.
Since then, the once-harmonious relations between Trump, who speaks proudly of being half-Scottish and whose Gaelic-speaking mother hailed from Stornoway on the northern Isle of Lewis, and Scotland’s political elite have turned sour.
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