The Secret Service is spending big at President Donald Trump’s properties, forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.
According to invoices obtained by the Washington Post and its unnamed sources, the Trump Organization charged the President’s security detail $650 per night in 2017 for their stays at Mar-A-Lago dozens of times.
In the same year, Trump’s company also charged Secret Service a rate of $17,000 a month when agents stayed at a cottage merely consisting of three bedrooms at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.
In 2018, Mar-A-Lago’s nightly rates dropped to $396 for the Secret Service, but the Post noted that agents had longer stays and used more rooms that year.
Sometimes there were days when President wasn’t even at the luxury properties the Secret Service had booked. Those properties charged the government full price anyway.
Trump’s use of his presidency to promote or pour money into his businesses has been a persistent issue, whether he’s making unnecessary stops at his golf clubs while traveling (and having Vice President Mike Pence do the same) or insisting that his resort host the G-7 summit.
Grifters gotta grift. I wonder if Putin charges usury rates on his loans.
This is fine.
Let’s get back to attacking the DNC for the problems in the Iowa caucus.
So what this tells me is that Trump properties don’t offer a loyalty program, (yes I understand federal spending regs).
Would have been cheaper if the SS had put everything on a cash back credit card.
I don’t suppose the moderators at the debate will bring this up, but I hope some of the candidates pivot to it and talk about whether they will punish this abuse of power and misuse of tax dollars or just “heal the nation,” and about what they will do to make sure nobody else gets away with this crap.