{"id":1055299,"date":"2025-07-25T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055299"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:08:17","slug":"icymi-theres-a-royal-reason-trump-wont-escape-jeffrey-epstein-fallout-on-his-trip-to-his-scotland-golf-courses-prince-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-theres-a-royal-reason-trump-wont-escape-jeffrey-epstein-fallout-on-his-trip-to-his-scotland-golf-courses-prince-andrew\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: There\u2019s a Royal Reason Trump Won\u2019t Escape Jeffrey Epstein Fallout On His Trip To His Scotland Golf Courses \u2014 Prince Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cPresident Trump is hoping for five days away from the Epstein fallout firestorm that has landed him in hot water not just with Democrats but his own MAGA base over the Justice Department\u2019s stonewalling on the release of all the Epstein files, as Trump and AG Pam Bondi had promised. \u2026 [T]he vast majority of his known itinerary on the trip \u2014 which is estimated to cost taxpayers $10 million \u2014 consists of visits to his Scottish golf resorts. \u2026 And that\u2019s the problem for Trump, thanks to a particular member of the Royal family who happens to be a golf-loving frequenter of his courses, is Scotland\u2019s Earl of Inverness \u2014 and who also happens to be tainted by his past close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein &#8230; Prince Andrew.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/trump-epstein-prince-andrew-scotland-trip-b2795890.html\"><strong>The Independent<\/strong><\/a><strong>: There\u2019s a royal reason Trump won\u2019t escape Jeffrey Epstein fallout on trip to his Scotland golf courses \u2014 Prince Andrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Andrew Feinberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Republican-led House of Representatives shut down early for its summer break to avoid Jeffrey Epstein motions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Senate GOP has been in see-no-evil mode the past week over the controversy swirling around the seemingly vanished \u201cclient list\u201d<\/strong> of the high-flying financier and convicted pedophile who once palled around with Donald Trump \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>So it makes perfect sense that <\/strong><strong>President Trump is hoping for five days away from the Epstein fallout firestorm that has landed him in hot water not just with Democrats but his own MAGA base over the Justice Department\u2019s stonewalling on the release of all the Epstein files, as Trump and AG Pam Bondi had promised.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Well, Scotland may not be far enough for that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>[T]he vast majority of his known itinerary on the trip \u2014 which is estimated to cost taxpayers $10 million \u2014 consists of visits to his Scottish golf resorts.<\/strong> One, Trump Turnberry and the other Trump International in Aberdeen, where he is set to open a brand new course that will be named for his late mother, Mary Anne McLeod Trump, who was born in Scotland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>And that\u2019s the problem for Trump, thanks to a particular member of the Royal family who happens to be a golf-loving frequenter of his courses, is Scotland\u2019s Earl of Inverness \u2014 and who also happens to be tainted by his past close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein &#8230; Prince Andrew.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump Turnberry, in fact, still boasts of its visits from Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, who was forced to stand down from royal duties in 2020 over his links to Epstein.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cPresident Trump is hoping for five days away from the Epstein fallout firestorm that has landed him in hot water not just with Democrats but his own MAGA base over the Justice Department\u2019s stonewalling on the release of all the Epstein files, as Trump and AG Pam Bondi had promised. \u2026 [T]he vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: There\u2019s a Royal Reason Trump Won\u2019t Escape Jeffrey Epstein Fallout On His Trip To His Scotland Golf Courses \u2014 Prince Andrew - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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