The debt-ridden airport has been fighting off closure and is said to be integral to the Trump business, which is also running at a loss.
US President Donald Trump (Photo: IANS)
The US Congressional committee on Saturday started investigating President Donald Trump in connection with a potential conflict of interest over military spending at a Scottish airport near his golf resort.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said that the expenditure at the Prestwick airport has “increased substantially” since Trump came into office, the BBC reported.
The debt-ridden airport has been fighting off closure and is said to be integral to the Trump business, which is also running at a loss.
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Chairman of the congressional oversight committee Elijah Cummings has written to the then-acting secretary of defence Patrick Shanahan in June that it has emerged, to raise “serious conflict of interest concerns” about Trump making money from military trips to Scotland.
The June letter reveals concerns that US military spending at Prestwick – the closest airport to Trump’s resort – appears to have “increased substantially since the election”.
Given the President’s continued financial stake in his Scotland golf courses, these reports raise questions about the president’s potential receipt of US or foreign government emoluments in violation of the US Constitution and raise another serious conflict of interest concerns.”
The Department has not yet complied with the demands, the BBC reported.
It has also not commented directly and neither has the Trump Organisation.
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