Donald Trump threatens to pull £700m investment from Scotland

Donald Trump has threatened to withhold £700m of investment in Scotland if he is banned from entering the UK. MPs will debate later this month whether the US presidential hopeful should be refused entry. Mr. Trump owns the Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire as well as Trump International Golf Links near Aberdeen.

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Follow Trump’s Money to Moscow

The phrase “follow the money” is supposed to help explain human behavior, especially in politics. So why has Donald Trump embraced Russian President Vladimir Putin? Why has he denied the evidence of Putin’s killing of Russian journalists and dissidents? A savvy businessman, Trump is certainly not dumb. There must be something else to it.

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The Clintons’ Colombian connection: a secret investment fund

Even as Hillary Clinton is upping her anti-Wall Street rhetoric, here comes word that the Clinton Foundation is running a private-equity company down in Colombia. --The private-equity field is where Mitt Romney earned his fortune — and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of negative ads from the Obama campaign back in 2008.

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