What next from Trump's America?

His audience with Her Majesty is at Windsor.

His visit to his Scottish golf resort is not in his capacity as POTUS, but as a private citizen and landowner and this is why the Scottish Government have requested the Treasury meet this cost from central funds rather than the Scottish settlement. The alternative was put to the Treasury that otherwise, there was no policing case for SG to secure this private visit with police resources and the matter of security would be left in Mr Trump’s own hands.

The five million has been paid and Police Scotland will supply the resources.

You first Jalimall08!

muffinthemoo, Thanks for the correction. The last I saw it was either Balmoral or Windsor. Looks like Windsor is on from what you say.

Not at all Ally, just thought I would add some context as to why SG were making a case that central govt should pay the policing costs.

It’s honestly a massive individual sum in Police Scotland's budget.

In any case, it will all be over soon and life can get back to normal.

It was never going to be Balmoral - do keep up A.

Thanks Muffin!

Michael Cohen, the President's former fixer and ultimate loyalist, is sending a clear signal to President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that "the truth is not you(r) or your client's friend," according to sources with knowledge of Cohen's thinking.

Two sources familiar with Cohen's thinking say he has "hit the reset button" and is continuing his commitment to speak the "real truth." In particular, the same sources say Giuliani is wading into dangerous territory when he asks Cohen to "tell the truth" about the Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Russian meddling in the election.

edition.cnn.com/2018/07/09/politics/cohen-trump-real-truth/index.html

Some interesting things in this AVAAZ article about the Donald and his Russian friends. There is a list of sources at the end with even more.

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/shocking_truth_about_trump/?bwajJlb

This is a truly scary link Elegran.

But what is even more scary, is that even if you could absolutely prove all these allegations beyond doubt, many millions of Trump supporters would just dismiss it as "fake news" .

That is the scary thing. He said himself "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkz7xgsPGmQ

Henry Olsen, writing in the Guardian, tries to explain Trump's support.

"The sheer ordinariness of Trump’s coalition is impossible to overstate. Data from the Voter Study Group show that more than 80% of his votes came from men and women who voted for Republican nominee Mitt Romney just four years before. This group contains the usual suspects among American Republicans: tax-cut advocates, religious evangelicals and Catholics, gun rights supporters and business types eager for deregulation. Trump has made sure to give each faction what they most desire just like any good politician would. That keeps them in his camp even as the media flays him with each supposed transgression.

Evangelicals are a case in point. My work on Republican factions, contained in the book I co-authored with Professor Dante Scala, The Four Faces of the Republican Party, found that very conservative voters who highly value social issues comprise about 25% of the party. These voters today are very afraid that liberal and progressive judges will slowly circumscribe their ability to practice their religion in their daily lives. They tended not to support Trump during the primaries, instead backing the Texas senator Ted Cruz. Their support for Trump now is highly transactional: so long as he nominates the judges they think will protect their beliefs and way of life, they will overlook virtually anything else he says or does."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/23/liberals-donald-trump-support

President Donald Trump's former lawyer has said his client knew in advance of a June 2016 meeting between his aides and a Russian delegation that offered to help his campaign, US media report.

Michael Cohen says he was present when Mr Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, informed his father of the meeting.

He is reportedly willing to state this to the special counsel investigation into alleged Russian election meddling.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44976725