You've Been Trumped Page #6

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'you're wrestling over the

bonnet of Findlay's van,

'this policeman attacking you,

trying to pull the camera off you,

'still not giving you any

reason why, what you've done.

'I think it was totally out of order.'

- Don't do that to me!

- Right, sir, you're being detained...

'Then, slammed the handcuffs on,

'and I saw your wrist

was grazed and everything.

'And that was totally out of order.'

That's disgraceful!

Will you loosen those cuffs, please?

Will you loosen those cuffs, please?!

This is a very sad state of affairs.

- They are hurting my arms.

- Sir, if you'd stop shouting.

Look, will you stop doing that to me!

It's 8:
30 in the evening.

I've just got back to my car,

after being in the police

cells for four hours.

We also had our camera confiscated

and our footage

confiscated by the police.

I think it was Susan

that said, you know,

and I was quite upset about it.

I thought, "Oh, gosh, a nice lad

like Anthony being taken into jail."

God, I couldn't sleep,

thinking about it, you know.

I thought, "God, what

like is the Trump people?"

They're horrors.

"Two men charged over filming at Trump."

I'm sick of seeing this "golf

will put northeast on tourism map".

I don't know what he's

wanting to hide here,

but this keeping people away off

this huge swathe of land's not right.

And then, there's that hostile

attack on Anthony for no reason,

the police wouldn't give any reason.

The mess he's making?

Well, there's something.

I mean, I've never seen

anything like this, anywhere.

It's against the law to

cut off anybody's water.

And if they had damaged it,

though, supposed it was an accident,

they should have been

supplying him with water.

There and then. You know.

Oh, aye.

'On his hit show, The Apprentice,

'Donald Trump's word trumps all.

'And it appears that power extends

to his business venture in Scotland.

'At least for now.

'Recently, two British journalists

found themselves arrested

'at the site of Mr Trump's

golf resort near Aberdeen...'

You are being detained under

Section 14 of the Criminal...

That's quite incredible.

That is just, that's bullying and

harassment. That really is shocking.

It's an assault on journalists

trying to do their job.

It's completely out of order.

Certainly people from around

the world have been taken aback

that this type of thing could happen.

Where journalists are actually

arrested, violently arrested,

handcuffed, taken to the cells,

having been fingerprinted,

DNA tests, having their equipment

taken off them, kept in the cells.

No, I've never seen anything like this.

I know people who have been

done for contempt of court,

covering court cases and

refusing to expose their sources.

But this was just an interference

in journalists trying to film

what really is a public interest story.

'From New York, the

greatest city in the world,

'it's the Late Show

With David Letterman.

'Tonight, Donald Trump.'

This is the guy, this

is the classic story.

Donald Trump, big American,

comes, wants to buy up his ranch,

or his farm, and he says, "Nope." So is he

going to sell or is he not going to sell?

I don't know, I don't need it. It's not in the

way of what I'm doing. It's on the outskirts.

- And if I buy it, that will be

fine. - Right. - But nothing I need.

So they are using me as an

excuse not to build their hotel.

They're saying, "Oh, it's

an eyesore, a pigsty,"

whatever they want to call it, you know.

But it's a working place. There's

going to be stuff lying about.

I don't throw nothing out,

because you never know

when it's going to be handy.

And I'm bloody sure no other farmer

would throw anything out either.

I was sitting in here,

I was on my computer,

I was looking for parts for my tractors.

And Mickey Foote phoned

in the afternoon and says,

"Do you know there are

diggers on your land?"

So I had a look out and I

saw the diggers working away.

So go over and tell my

mother what was going on,

just in case she got excited.

I was disgusted and felt ill about it.

I mean, all that happening

on Michael's land,

that they wanted to buy!

I took my title deed with me.

And I says, "You better just put

everything back where you got it."

And there were two policemen there.

I shouts, I says, "Who's the boss here?"

They didn't do anything about it.

They were guarding THEM pulling

up the poles and putting up fences.

And I tried to show them on

the title deeds what was mine,

and they weren't interested.

They says, "We are just down here to

make sure there's no damage caused."

Bloody damage, they were

ripping up the place.

This is the one I used

to use with my father.

I see them burst it all.

That was the police who was

supposed to be watching it,

that there was no damage done.

It looks really respectful,

eh? They burst it all.

They surely phoned the

security. Here they come now.

They've got a road made now.

HE CHUCKLES:

That's my land, aye.

Not now, that belongs to them now.

No, I've seen enough of this.

This here is the original

Menie salmon fishing plans.

And it shows you here,

in black and white,

that this is the land here

for Menie salmon fishers.

But they are saying in the papers today

that their plan supersedes my plan.

This here is Trump's

plan of the same area.

Is here, with this corner cut off.

Andy Wightman.

Mike Forbes.

Good to see you, good to see you.

What a bizarre goings-on.

I'm glad you can laugh

about it sometimes.

- Well, you have to. - Oh,

aye. - You have to, you know.

If you have a dispute with your

neighbour about whose land is whose,

you seek to resolve it amicably

and, ultimately, you

would go to the courts.

You don't grab it. You know,

you don't nakedly grab it.

I mean, that's what

they did in the past.

If everyone was to do that,

it would be a state of

strife across the country.

The police are correct in that where your

boundary is is not a matter for the police.

It's not a criminal

matter. It's a civil matter.

- They shouldn't have been here.

- They shouldn't even have been here.

And the fact that Trump

has got a dispute here,

thinks he owns this land,

that's a civil matter.

Before all this happened,

they put in a line of flags.

Little red flags, with pieces of wire.

And they put them in here.

I removed them all. And

I was charged with theft.

There was all these little bloody

red flags all over the place.

And they were a danger,

cos my grandsons play down

there, and they were sharp wires.

27 I pulled out of my land.

27 of these bloody things.

Is that charge still...?

The Prosecutor Fiscal sent a letter

back saying they'd dropped it,

but if I do anything like that again,

I will be severely dealt with.

So I'm guilty.

You know, I'm guilty and I would

have preferred if it went to court.

I mean, to me, that suggests,

you know, double standards.

And very, very political policing.

Have you ever come

across a case like this?

No, no, no.

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