Ocasio-Cortez renews impeachment call amid probe involving Trump’s Scotland property

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) renewed calls to impeach President Trump Friday shortly after reports emerged of a House investigation into a stop a military crew made at his Turnberry resort in Scotland.

“The President is corrupt and must be impeached,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to a post that provided details of the report.

The President is corrupt and must be impeached. https://t.co/L4fS2pExDe

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 7, 2019

The report, which Politico broke on Friday night, said that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee had launched a probe into an unusual stop that an Air National Guard crew made at the president’s Scottish resort while in route to Kuwait.

People familiar with the matter told Politico that the crew made the stopover on both legs of the journey to deliver supplies.

A senior Democratic aide on the oversight panel told The Hill on Friday that “Defense Department has not produced a single document in this investigation.”

“The committee will be forced to consider alternative steps if the Pentagon does not begin complying voluntarily in the coming days,” the aide added. 

The Pentagon and Oversight Committee did not respond to requests for comment from The Hill.

According to Politico, the panel’s probe is just one of the latest developments in a larger inquiry into military spending at the president’s property in Scotland. 

The report has prompted criticism against Trump from a number of Democrats alleging corruption.

The torrent of rancid corruption and outright thievery in the trump White House is wo/parallel in our history.

Will a single elected republican at any level of government say a word about this? I’ll give you one guess. https://t.co/MIiv4bBKzT

— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) September 7, 2019

https://t.co/JRoSmuFq7L Grifter in Chief! Putting military aircraft at public airport rather than U.S. military base is security risk ! But $ is what matters to this administration.

— Steve Cohen (@RepCohen) September 7, 2019

Dear Secretary of Defense @EsperDoD: This smells like corruption.

Can you explain to the American people why US military personnel apparently went out of their way to fly to a @realDonaldTrump resort? https://t.co/D8aCBQggwA

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 7, 2019

This is insanely corrupt!

There is so much of it since he has taken office that we don’t need Muller report for impeachment. https://t.co/HxAFRlz3mw

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) September 7, 2019

The report comes several days after the Trump administration found itself in hot water over Vice President Pence’s stay at a Trump resort during an official trip to Ireland. 

Pence had been in the country this week to participate in meeting Dublin, which is located 180 away from the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel where he stayed in Doonbeg.