Scotland is the home of 5,295,400 people plus almost seven million sheep. The normal temperature at Turnberry in January is 42 degrees along with 18 days of rain rising to 57 degrees in July with 12 days of rain. Sheep seldom play golf and neither do most of their owners. Raising sheep is an around-the-clock, seven-day a week, year-around activity not suited to the kind of people inclined to hitting a small white ball, and chasing it only to hit it again. And, who could even imagine what a shepherd would look like in checkered pants and a Paddy cap? At first glance Turnberry, Scotland hardly seems like a good place to build a golf resort. The question becomes who in their right mind would do such a thing?
That dear reader, would take a business genius with a self-declared “big brain” along with his multiple bankruptcies and over 3,500 lawsuits. A person such as Donald Trump, who Marco Rubio called a con artist. The question is how much of his own money does he have in the Trump Turnberry Golf Resort? Trust me, the sheep are not the only ones being sheared in Scotland. Scratch Trump and you will find people being separated rather quickly from their money. What he calls business other people call, “I've been robbed.”
The well-heeled clientele is not Trump's only fraud victims. At the start of the 2007 recession, Donald Trump convinced lower-income people to invest in a pseudo-scientific vitamin scam—all without expressing any concern about how it might potentially endanger people’s health. Using a multi-level marketing scheme called The Trump Network, he encouraged people to take an expensive urine test, which would then be used to personally “tailor” a pricey monthly concoction of vitamins—something a Harvard doctor told the Daily Beast was a straight-up “scam.” After the Daily Beast challenged the company doctor to defend the products, he derided the idea of “evidence-based” medicine. The scam failed leaving Trump with the money and the little guy holding the bag.
Trump’s 2016 Election Campaign is one of his biggest scams so far. He “loaned” his campaign forty-two million dollars out of which he has plowed six million dollars (so far) back into his own pocket. Every time he flies on Trump Air, holds a campaign rally at any of his properties including his Palm Beach estate (Mar-a-Lago) he pays himself out of campaign funds. Now, in spite of crowing loudly that he is self-funding his campaign, he is soliciting money from the wealthy “donor class.” When the campaign is over Trump will use this money to pay himself back for the loans he made to his campaign. With this scam he is able to personally benefit from campaign contributions in a case of having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too.
Trump brags continuously and loudly about his business skills which includes four “Chapter 11 bankruptcies.” His book, The Art of the Deal should have been titled The Art of the Steal. If he should become president, the thought of using the US Treasury like a personal piggy bank will be irresistible to him. If he loses the election, he will sign a contract for another reality television show for some unheard of amount of money. America’s only hope is that the voters realize that Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president. The next time Trump talks abut “Make America Great Again,” the astute voter will ask, “For who?”
