Trump probed over military visits to golf resort

DONALD TRUMP is being investigated over a potential conflict of interest involving increased US military spending at Prestwick Airport and visits to his Trump Turnberry resort.

The United States Congress has launched a probe into whether increasing expenditure at the airport and allegations of cut-price deals at Mr Trump’s Ayrshire golf resort offered to visiting US military personnel is a violation of the American constitution.

Chairman of the Congress oversight committee Elijah Cummings wrote to then-acting Secretary of Defence Patrick Shanahan to raise “serious conflict of interest concerns” about Mr Trump making money from military trips to Scotland.

The letter reveals concerns that US military spending at Prestwick – the closest airport to Mr Trump’s resort – appears to have “increased substantially since the election”.

Following reports of the airport offering “cut-price rooms for select passengers and crew”, and free rounds of golf at Turnberry for US military staff and civilian air crews, Mr Trump has been warned his financial stake in the resort raises questions about the increase in airport spending. The committee is demanding to see all the financial documents from the US Department of Defence relating to Trump Turnberry, in addition to details of all communications between the two sides, but reports from the US suggest there has yet to be any response.