A number of media outlets have just revealed a significant scandal within Trumpland. As the Republican Party seeks to take back control of government, this story may have significant ramifications.
Business Insider on Friday published a report detailing the former president’s extensive abuse of sand dunes at his golf course in Scotland. In 2006, Trump bought a swath of coastal land in Aberdeenshire to build “the world’s best golf course.”
The Insider
There was noisy local opposition to the plan, but Trump had a relationship with Scotland’s then-first minister, Alex Salmond. The plan was approved by the Scottish government in 2008. They cited the potential economic benefits that the resort would provide to the nation.
Despite warnings in 2008 that the construction of an 18-hole course would destroy the sand dunes around it, Trump had pressed ahead, saying: “We will stabilize the dunes. They’ll be there for ever. It will make the environment more sustainable. [the course] is built than it is before.”
According to the Insider satellite images, Trump didn’t keep his word. “[T]he part of the highly sensitive ecosystem on which Trump International Golf Links was built was largely ruined,” the author writes, adding:
Officials announced in December 2020 that the coastal sand dunes Trump’s [sic]The resort’s status as protected environment site would be lost because it had been partly destroyed.
Maxar satellite technology company took photos that showed the destruction of Foveran Links’ sand dunes. It occurred from March 2010 to April 2021.
The Insider noted that the site in 2010 “contained areas of mobile sand and dunes that were semi-fixed in position, as well as marshes, dune grassland, and low-lying areas called dune slacks.” NatureScot, a Scottish conservation agency, stated that the area was “a very high-quality example of a sand dune system characteristic of north east Scotland and was of exceptional importance for the wide variety of coastal landforms and processes.”
Bob Ward, the policy and communications director at London School of Economics and Political Science’s (LSE) Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, told Insider that construction on top of the dunes had destroyed them. “Sand dunes are a dynamic system, they’re wind-driven, so they go backward and forwards,” he explained. He continued:
Building a golf course on top means you can’t have the dunes moving around, so they have to stabilize them. So they’ve essentially planted vegetation on top of them and put physical constraints on them so the dunes can’t move and it’s not a dynamic system anymore.
The argument the Trump International Golf Links used was that they’d protected them by stabilizing them. But essentially what they’ve done is they’ve just killed it as a natural environment.
Avaaz is a worldwide campaign group that has raised concerns about Trump’s financing of the purchase land where the course was built. The Scottish government refused to investigate their purchase and they are now suing.
Russiagate?
You should forget about Ukraine.
Don’t worry about the “mean tweets”.
These are the best is the scandal that will bring about Trump’s political demise. The walls are getting closer. It will be only a matter of time before Carl Bernstein sprints to a camera so he can say the sand dune scandal is “worse than Watergate.”
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is probably already preparing to elevate this story. Yahoo! The Hill and Yahoo! News have published articles on this topic. After Trump leaves office, Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker will probably lead another effort to impeach him.
It’s going to get ugly.
Trump’s decision to viciously murder a series of sand dunes reveals how bad the orange man truly is. The unconscionable act must be punished. Because the activists media are running out of ways to distract from the complete disaster that is the Biden government, this will be one the biggest issues facing the country.
Everybody must pay attention when sand dunes become the object of abuse. We hope that the Nation will not be able to swallow the notion of an Oval Office sand dunes killer. It is essential that we have Some standards, after all.
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