The continuing saga of the Trump ballroom is yet another sign that everything the man touches turns to anything but gold, writes Noel Turnbull.

Even Republicans avoided a vote on the recent $1 billion security bill for Donald Trump’s ballroom - leaving the whole project up in the air.

Strength in Numbers, the G. Elliott Morris substack, reports that 68 per cent of respondents oppose spending $1 billion on the ballroom. 57 per cent oppose it strongly and only 21 per cent support it.

86 per cent of Democrats strongly oppose the spending. 52 per cent of Independents strongly oppose the plan, 9 per cent somewhat oppose it. Only 20 per cent of Republicans strongly support the plan with 22 per cent somewhat supporting it.

They all seem to remember that Trump promised the ballroom would be paid for entirely by private donors.

Perhaps more importantly Republican Senators, having serious doubts about the project, have gone into recess without voting on teh proposed........

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