Posted on 01/06/2016 6:12:09 PM PST by VinL
Donald Trump will scrap $1 billion of planned investments in Britain if he is banned from entering the country, a spokesman for the US politician's business empire said on Wednesday.
British lawmakers are expected to debate whether the Republican presidential candidate should be barred from Britain for an alleged "hate speech", a move the Trump Organization said would set a "dangerous precedent".
The organisation said the US tycoon had planned to invest a total of £700 million pounds (950 million euros, $1 billion) in two golf courses he owns in Scotland.
"Any action to restrict travel would force The Trump Organization to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom," spokesman George Sorial said in a statement.
"Westminster would create a dangerous precedent and send a terrible message to the world that the United Kingdom opposes free speech and has no interest in attracting inward investment."
Parliament is due to debate whether Trump should be banned on January 18, after an online petition calling for him to be barred gathered more than 570,000 signatures.
Lawmakers are obliged to consider for debate any official petition that reaches 100,000 signatures, but no decision is taken at the end of the session.
The petition accused Trump of hate speech after his call last month for Muslims to be temporarily denied entry to the United States, following a mass shooting in California by a Muslim couple said to have been radicalised.
He has also in recent months labelled Mexican immigrants rapists and mocked a disabled reporter by mimicking him.
Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned Trump's remarks on Muslims as "divisive, stupid and wrong" but does not support banning him. (snip)
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He is not the President--yet. Obviously he has the ability to look out for his business interests and to run a campaign at the same time.
And stop making things up.
When did they let you out of prison? Perjury usually is 1-2 yrs— Couldn’t have been for good behavior/
Deaf, blind, stupid, and obtuse is no way to go through life; kid.
I've had all of one parking ticket in my entire life.
I doubt that you can say the same...you mental defective.
Bernie Sanders, is that you?
3rd grade Trumpkin.
damn- how’d you guess.
Even crazy, faaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty Bernie is saner than VinL is. LOL
LOL!
COA, appears we have an unrepentant recidivist.
They didn't ban Barry when he sent the bust of Winnie back to #10 Downing.
That's the funny thing here. The petition represents 500,000 core kooks, those who would keep Churchill out as well.
They actually did this to Michael Savage also, and others.
I would like to see people here, of all stripes, jump down their throats for tampering in our elections, even if just superficially, from afar. That is the issue that should be hammered. If they stick their fingers in our internal affairs it should be bitten off.
I don’t make things up,Vinnie.
Not even when I was in the third grade.
Maybe this is the year you get promoted to fourth.
LOL!
Do we really need to go into what she thought of Trump only four years ago?
“Worse than Obama”....
“Disgusting lifestyle...took bribes...etc.”
Amazing, that complete 180 from disgust to adoration.
So if the UK bars Trump, he’ll pull his investments and give them what they want.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, Our Churchill.
This is why it’s easy to like The Donald.
Oh, is the perjurer a female? I didn’t know. I apologize, no pardons... just joking.
That would mean that we could ban the British government from coming here.
na-na-na-na-na 8^D
Well, two can play at that game.
To be fair, she certainly wasn’t the only one who flipped faster than a fried egg in grease.
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