Article 5HFM4 Molly Forbes obituary

Molly Forbes obituary

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Anthony Baxter
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Molly Forbes, who has died aged 96, will be remembered by many as the Scottish woman who stood up to Donald Trump.

When Trump tried to buy the Forbes' farm for his Aberdeenshire golfing resort, the family resisted. He attempted to have compulsory purchase orders taken out, saying at a press conference in 2010 that the farm was a pigsty", slumlike" and disgusting". Molly responded with a banner across her hen shed reading: TRUMP THE GREATEST LIAR". Trump did not succeed in buying the farm. The golf course was opened on 10 July 2012 but the luxury hotel was never built.

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