Pays Trump's Scotland golf resort $77000 ahead of visit
Trump remained at the resort and played golf there last Saturday, between a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance and a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Spending records seen by Reuters show that the US State Department, which typically arranges presidential travel overseas, paid US$77,345.35 since April to SLC Turnberry Ltd, the Trump company that owns the resort, for "hotel rooms for VIP visit". Trump was at the club last weekend.
US President Donald Trump and the first Lady Melania Trump leave the US ambassador's residence, Winfield House, in London, Britain, July 12, 2018.
Instead, he passed control to his two adult sons, Eric and Donald Jr., and a senior Trump Organization executive.
"This is another example of President Trump using the power and authority of his office to profit personally", Brendan Fischer, director of federal reform at watchdog group the Campaign Legal Center, told the newspaper.
Islamabad HC rejects Nawaz Sharif, Maryam's bail request
The caretaker federal cabinet cancelled the decision to conduct corruption proceedings against Sharif family inside Adiala jail. The counsel then said that his client had also submitted a petition in the IHC to transfer the case to another court.
Trump caused political havoc during his four-day stay in Britain after giving an interview to the Sun newspaper in which he said May's Brexit strategy could kill off a USA trade deal and declared her rival, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, would make an excellent prime minister.
The security official was treated immediately after collapsing while being a part of Trump's detail during his diplomatic mission to Europe.
Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organisation in Washington DC, said that based on past presidential foreign trips, the overall cost of the visit is likely to be around $1.9m (£1.4m), with Turnberry in line to receive around $200,000 (£152,000).
A spokeswoman for the State Department said it frequently assists other USA agencies in making hotel bookings overseas.
The Trump Organization told The Washington Post this week that Trump-owned properties do not profit from USA government business. It said the costs for those hotels rooms are borne by the other agencies.
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