Meet a 92-Year-Old Woman Whose Life Was Ruined by Donald Trump

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

“I see Donald Trump lying in the road there,” grins Scottish farmer Michael Forbes, pointing to a ripe mound of horse shit occupying the pavement outside the 2016 Republican National Convention, in the new documentary sequel You’ve Been Trumped, Too. Pointedly rushed into release to be seen by American audiences before Nov. 8, the Election Day urgency is obvious, and even the laughs are edged with a bittersweet dread and panic.

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Forbes is one of the residents of Balmedie, Scotland, who’s been waging a David vs. Goliath battle for years against Trump over a luxury golf course that opened in 2012 right down the road. The development of the new Trump International Golf Links ruined protected natural sand dunes, failing spectacularly to deliver on a plethora of lofty promises Trump had personally made to local citizens and politicians—namely, economic growth and thousands of new jobs.

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But it’s Forbes and his mother, Molly, who live on adjacent farms near the golf course, who have suffered most greatly from tangling with the presidential hopeful—and are ill-equipped to give him the kind of legal fight that would cost a fortune to wage. The problem stems from the damage made when Trump’s workers broke a crucial pipe that connected their homes to the only nearby water source.

The faucets began pouring sludge, their only drinkable water poisoned. Despite their pleas and increasing scrutiny from local media and officials, Trump and his people refused to repair the contaminated water line, forcing the 92-year-old Molly Forbes to collect water from a stream she carted back to her home in a wheelbarrow. For four years.

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Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/26/meet-a-92-year-old-woman-whose-life-was-ruined-by-donald-trump.html

[Warpy]

1. Trump's history in Scotland has been especially brutal

He waged war against the Forbes farm not because he wanted their land but because he thought the view from his hotel of a working farm was "disgusting." His word.

It's worth the Google and reading time to see just what that man has done to these people, all because he doesn't like the look of rusty farm equipment. He wants their livelihood erased so he can have empty countryside to look at.

[mopinko]

7. it would have been cheaper

to buy them shiny new farm equipment, and build a modern barn for them. but no.

[Warpy]

9. Men like Trump think that makes people weak

Even a family that's been tough enough to make a go of farming in Scotland, no mean feat.

They'd rather the money go to deserving people near their own class. You know, lawyers.

[mopinko]

12. sigh. yup. or

a piddling settlement w a gag order.

[neeksgeek]

2. Anybody who wants to turn this creature loose in the White House is either insane or stupid. nt

[gregcrawford]

6. Actually, BOTH!

But with particular emphasis on stupidity of a magnitude that can only be measured in astronomical terms. Sadly, not only do these wastes of skin vote, they breed indiscriminately.

[heaven05]

3. he's just an evil person

irredeemably, I think.I pray to my greater spirit, he endds up lonely, alone, broke and hated by thousands.

[Sunlei]

4. Republican party should be ashamed they got dominated by a casino-golfer 'playboy'

[Motley13]

5. the maggot is only "me,me,me,me"

said while stamping foot.

He doesn't care who he destroys on the way, and those who support him, think he has their best interest in mind. God help them & us.

Why do people vote against their own best interest?

[geardaddy]

8. Trump's Scottish connection

[truebluegreen]

10. Seriously?

Well, you can see where he got his sense of (hair) style; don't know where she got hers though.
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Are you sure that's not Frankenstein's mother?
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oh, wait

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Younger picture

[truebluegreen]

16. 'Xactly.

[Angry Dragon]

11. Trump is an entitled asshole

[smirkymonkey]

13. He is such a despicable human being.

I can't tell you how much I want to see that man suffer. I don't just want him to lose the election, I want him to lose everything. I want him to feel the helplessness and indignity that he has caused so many others to feel over the years.

God, I really hate that guy.