Trump hopes to escape Epstein controversy, but story risks following him to Scotland Hundreds of extra police officers

Trump hopes to escape Epstein controversy, but story risks following him to Scotland

Hundreds of extra police officers have been deployed to his golf courses in Turnberry and Aberdeenshire as an army of protestors mobilise for what they're calling a "carnival of resistance".


https://news.sky.com/story/trump-hopes-to-escape-epstein-controversy-but-story-risks-following-him-to-scotland-13401446

US correspondent @jamesmatthewsky Friday 25 July 2025 13:57, UK




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Scotland leans left of Donald Trump, and critics will lean into an effort to let him know.
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It's an awkward setting for a charm offensive by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scotland's First Minister John Swinney.

As the biggest show in politics rolls into town, they will polish the script on trade negotiations, wary of a president distracted, unpredictable and prone to changing the plot.

His distraction, of course, is the political drama back home.



Trump will welcome a weekend under the radar as an opportunity to escape the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, but there's every chance the story will travel with him.

Daily efforts to steer the media away from the scandal haven't stemmed the flow of persistent enquiry and revelations that cement Trump's relationship with Epstein in the public consciousness, and so further raise questions of cover-up.