Trump Denies Talking to Ambassador About Moving British Open to His Resort
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON President Trump said on Wednesday that he never spoke with his ambassador to Britain about asking the British government if it could help steer the world-famous British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland.
The ambassador, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that he had been asked to see if he could arrange for the tournament to be played at Mr. Trumps property and was warned not to do so by his deputy because it would be an unethical use of the presidency for private gain, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Mr. Johnson apparently felt pressured to try anyway, and a few weeks later he raised the idea of Turnberry hosting the Open with the secretary of state for Scotland, The Times reported. The episode left several American diplomats unsettled, and the ambassadors deputy, Lewis A. Lukens, sent emails describing what had happened to State Department colleagues. Mr. Johnson later forced out Mr. Lukens.
Asked about the report at a coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Mr. Trump denied speaking with Mr. Johnson on the matter, although he managed to promote his Scotland golf course at the same time.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/politics/trump-turnberry-british-open.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytpolitics
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SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)Sure, Little Donnie. And we can all believe you because........well, we can't, can we?
Turbineguy
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(23,166 posts)EarthFirst
(2,899 posts)His lips are moving...
HuskyOffset
(888 posts)...a bigger bus, were running out of room under this one.
Kris Mac
(16 posts)Every.single.time
ResistantAmerican17
(3,796 posts)payments to Stormy Daniels that were paid with checks he signed? That trump?
MissMillie
(38,533 posts)I don't know why anyone would believe him.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,568 posts)That way he can say, "I never talked to Woody about the request." I guess the ambassador just got it into his head on his own.