Van with photo of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein spotted in Aberdeen
While at Trump International Golf Links at the Menie Estate, Trump will launch a new course while also meeting with First Minister John Swinney.
The picture on the van has been displayed alongside a message of "Welcome to Scotland, Donald", following news last week Trump was told his name appears in the Epstein files multiple times.
A spokesperson for the group behind the stunt, Everyone Hates Elon, said: "We're displaying a real photograph of Donald Trump with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault over 20 times and a court awarded a settlement to an accuser. His chickens are coming home to roost.
(Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)
"British people reject Trump's extreme views: risking women's lives by attacking abortion healthcare, blaming immigrants for problems powerful men like him created. We won't stand for it.
"People have donated £20,000 in just a few days to spread this photo across the UK for Trump's state visit in September. It would be such a shame if we raised even more and exposed Donald Trump in even more ways. A real shame.'
Trump was told by US Attorney General Pam Bondi that he appears in the files related to investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during the US Department of Justice's review of the case in May.
Reports in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the New York Times and CNN cited unnamed anonymous sources, and did not specify the context of the references to Trump's name in the documents.
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However, the WSJ – which first reported the news – said Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche had told the US president that the files contained "what officials felt was unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump".
The reports have been branded "fake news" by the White House, as communications director Steven Cheung said Trump had ejected Epstein from his Florida club Mar-a-Lago for "being a creep".
Cheung said: "This is another fake news story, just like the previous story by the Wall Street Journal."
He was referring to the WSJ's recent report which alleged he sent Epstein a crude letter featuring a drawing of a naked woman to mark the convicted paedophile's 50th birthday in 2003. Trump has denied writing the letter or drawing the picture, and has since filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the WSJ as well as Rupert Murdoch.
Trump has already met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer while at Turnberry and at one stage Starmer was forced to interrupt him after he appeared to suggest 'all" the benefits of a UK-US trade deal should go to Scotland.
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Trump also commented on Swinney's plan to win a second independence referendum.
He said: 'I don't want to get involved in your politics, we got enough politics of our own.
'I will say that I predicted what was going to happen the last time.'
He added: "I do say that when they made that deal, somebody said that it was, and I remember this very distinctly, I said, could they do this all the time?
"There was a little bit of a restriction like 50 or 75 years before you could take another vote because, you know, a country can't go through that too much."
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