ERIC TRUMP flew 30 of his business associates into Aberdeen yesterday, for a round of golf at the family’s Scottish courses.
The third-born child of the President of the United States arrived in the Trump-branded private jet, sparking rumours that perhaps his dad was making his first visit back to the home country since becoming the 45th Commander-in-Chief.
As Eric entertained guests at the Menie course in the north east, the storm over his family’s connections to Russia and Vladimir Putin continued to rumble back home.
His visit to Scotland also comes as American media reports that he and big brother Donald Jr are “miserable” and eager for their father’s turn in the White House to come to an end.
People magazine quoted sources close to the family who say the two boys were jealous of brother-in-law Jared Kushner, who was made a senior advisor to the president with an office in the West Wing while they were left in charge of the family's business.
“All the attention to Jared is a bit of a sore point and they feel left out of the fun in DC,” a source close to the family is reported to have said.
Kushner is responsible for one of the biggest portfolios in the White House – tackling everything from criminal justice reform to advising on policy in the Middle East.
The family source told People: “Don worked on the campaign and Jared gets the big Forbes cover and they make him out to be a big genius, and Don is like, ‘No, I worked on the campaign too.'”
Older brother Donald Jr is also preparing for a grilling by the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday over his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer supposedly linked to Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s eldest son released a chain of emails last week detailing his conversations about setting up a meeting to get compromising information on Hillary Clinton from someone with links to the Russian government.
The President defended Donald Jr, saying most politicians would have taken similar meetings.
Eric has, so far, remained mostly untangled from the Russia affair, though the golf writer James Dodson claimed the second son had told him the Trump Organisation’s golf courses were being financed by Russian money. Eric said Dodson’s story was “completely fabricated”.
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