Trump asked an ambassador to try to get the British Open at his resort in Scotland

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/watch-maddows-epic-rant-against-trumps-latest-corruption-scandal-involving-golf-this-keeps-happening/

The host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC blasted President Donald Trump on Tuesday after a bombshell new report that Trump pressured Ambassador Woody Johnson in an attempt to personally enrich himself by having the British Open golf tournament played at his private resort in Scotland.

“The American ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that President Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the world-famous and lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode,” The New York Times reported Tuesday. “The ambassador’s deputy, Lewis A. Lukens, advised him not to do it, warning that it would be an unethical use of the presidency for private gain, these people said. But Mr. Johnson apparently felt pressured to try. A few weeks later, he raised the idea of Turnberry playing host to the Open with the secretary of state for Scotland, David Mundell.”


What will Susan Collins say when she finds out? Oh the humanity!

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1. Forget Susan Collins

How will any Republican accept this behavior?

(total bs)

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2. hunter biden had a job and somehow that must mean joe is corrupt, but this

blatant abuse of presidential power for personal gain, eh, that's just "running the country like a business", i guess.