By Ben King.
Business reporter.
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Donald Trump bought a golf resort.
Newly-released accounts show that Donald Trump's golf courses and leisure businesses in Scotland claimed over 3 million dollars in UK government money.
There were losses at Trump resorts in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire.
Trump Turnberry recorded a loss of more than 3 million dollars in 2020.
The Balmedie resort reported a loss of over one million dollars.
Donald Trump's mother was from the Isle of Lewis, and the former US president spoke fondly of his Scottish ancestry.
He opened his first golf resort on the Menie estate in Aberdeenshire in 2012 despite opposition over potential environmental damage and later tried to stop a wind farm being built off the coast.
He bought the Turnberry golf resort in South Ayrshire from a company in the Middle East.
Donald Junior and Eric were given control of the courses by their father before he became president.
Critics of Mr Trump lost a legal bid to force the Scottish government to investigate how he paid for the courses.
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Donald Trump has a golf resort in Scotland.
The Turnberry golf course and resort's turnover fell from over 18 million dollars in the year before to over 6 million dollars in the year after.
It made a profit of $321,000 in 2019.
The resort was closed from 23 March to 15 July 2020 and again from 20 November to 26 April 2021.
The average number of employees fell from 541 to 289, while the company received a total of £2.3m in grants under the furlough scheme in 2020.
Government data not included in the published accounts shows that a subsidiary of the company made up to 1 million dollars in additional claims.
"Government support was helpful to retain as many jobs as possible, however, uncertainty of the duration of support and the Pandemic's sustained impact meant that redundancies were required to prepare the business for the long term effects to the hotel industry," said the accounts signed by Eric Trump.
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Donald Trump and his son Donald Jnr teed off on the first ball at the Aberdeenshire course.
Trump International Golf Club Scotland limited saw its turnover plummet from 3 million dollars in the year before to 1 million dollars in the year after that.
The Macleod House hotel was closed from 21 March to 20 November and the restaurants and dining facilities only opened in June.
The accounts say that the UK government's furlough scheme was helpful to retain as many jobs as possible and that the majority of employees were reinstated over the course of the year.
The company received almost half a million dollars from the scheme in 2020.
The data shows that Trump International Golf Club Scotland claimed between £85,000 and £205,000 of money from January to August.
The accounts show that the number of employees fell from 84 to 63.
The Donald J Trump Revocable Trust is registered in Florida and is the ultimate controlling party of both companies.
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