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Martyn McLaughlin
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Investigations correspondent & columnist @TheScotsman & @scotonsunday Personal account. Views my own. Find me on Bluesky at martynmcl.bsky.social
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Oct 5, 2025
    EXCL: US Secret Service spent nearly £2.8m during Donald Trump's visit to Scotland in July, according to records obtained by @TheScotsman under US FoI laws, with Trump's hotels among the recipients. An ethics watchdog condemned the payments as "shocking"
    The multi-million pound bill for Donald Trump's Scotland visit revealed
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Dec 29, 2021
    Love is finishing each other's sentences
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Nov 12, 2020
    Thread: there's been interesting discussion in the Scottish Parliament this afternoon about the use of Unexplained Wealth Orders to investigate Donald Trump's deals to acquire his Scottish properties and ascertain the sources of the financing 1/
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Jan 31, 2021
    EXCL: The Scottish Parliament will this week stage a debate - and vote - on whether ministers should pursue an Unexplained Wealth Order to investigate the source of financing for Donald Trump’s Scottish resorts. My @TheScotsman story.
    Parliament to hold vote on Unexplained Wealth Order into Donald Trump's finances
    From scotsman.com
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Jan 31, 2021
    New story about Trump's finances in Scotland coming soon ...
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Apr 24, 2020
    My daughter's teachers set themselves a lockdown challenge of making a fine dining version of beans and toast, with the kids voting on the winners.
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Nov 12, 2020
    Replying to @MartynMcL
    .@patrickharvie said there is a need to "protect Scotland's good name from association with the toxic Trump brand" and highlighted "serious and long-standing concerns about Trump's business activities," both in Scotland and further afield 2/
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    May 31, 2024
    EXCL: Scotland's top law officer has been urged to investigate the source of the funds underpinning Donald Trump’s flagship Scottish resort after the former US president was convicted in New York on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.
    Scotland's top law officer urged to pursue investigation into Trump resorts after criminal convic...
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Feb 2, 2021
    Patrick Harvie's response to Eric Trump's statement tonight: "As entertaining as Eric Trump’s tantrum is, he doesn’t say where his dad got the money to buy his Scottish golf courses, which is exactly why I’m calling on the Scottish Government to seek an Unexplained Wealth Order.”
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Feb 2, 2021
    EXCL: On the eve of a parliamentary vote on whether ministers should go to court to investigate the finances behind Donald Trump's resorts, the Trump Org has accused politicians of pursuing "personal agendas" and neglecting their response to the pandemic. scotsman.com/news/politics/…
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Jan 21, 2021
    NEW: Before he left office, Trump filed his final financial disclosures with @OfficeGovEthics. I’ve had a read through them. The income he is claiming in respect of his Scottish resorts is entirely divorced from the reality set out in black in white in his UK accounts. Thread 👇
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Nov 12, 2020
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    He added: "Now that Trump is set to lose immunity from prosecution in the US, he may finally be held to account there. Isn't it time that he's also held to account here? Isn't it time for answers from the Trump Organisation and for the Scottish Government to go to court?" 7/
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Jan 19, 2021
    Whenever Trump visits his Turnberry resort, he flies in via Glasgow Prestwick, an airport he's had numerous business dealings with over the years. Now, there's now a petition in Scotland to rename the airport after Joe Biden. Story by @RosalindErskine:
    BrewDog troll Donald Trump by launching petition to rename Prestwick Airport 'Joe Biden Internati...
    From foodanddrink.scotsman.com
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Nov 12, 2020
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    Those concerns, he said, include evidence to Congress citing patterns of buying and selling thought suggestive of money laundering, and which drew particular attention to the golf courses in Scotland and Ireland. 3/
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    Martyn McLaughlin
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    Jan 13, 2021
    Quite the front page of tomorrow's @theneweuropean