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Why Would a Billionaire Charge the Secret Service $650 a Night?
The Atlantic ^ | Feb 7, 2020 | David A. Graham

Posted on 02/08/2020 6:00:14 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: ConservativeMind

Thanks...ain’t it the truth?


101 posted on 02/08/2020 8:26:26 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: gundog; Gen.Blather
It"s standard journalistic practice to exclude exculpatory information if a Republican ox is being gored.

Yes.

Basically, you can ignore this article, and if anyone brings it up, call them a naive dolt to their face.

102 posted on 02/08/2020 8:35:37 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: mdmathis6; DoodleDawg
I doubt that Eric Trump lied.

Just get up tomorrow and watch the Sunday morning shows.

ALL the Media networks refused to have ANY Trump people on tomorrow, in order to shape the false "not acquitted" Narrative the Media and the DNC (but I repeat myself...) has decided on.

103 posted on 02/08/2020 8:38:33 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

Yup. Presidential travel, Presidential golf, Presidential security...they all rack up costs, and people ignore it in their guy, and rail about it in the opposition.


104 posted on 02/08/2020 8:41:07 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: marron

They certainly did charge rent Something like 2500 or more


105 posted on 02/08/2020 8:44:47 PM PST by Citizen Soldier
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Of course the Clintons were homeless until they bought in NY so Hillary could take a senate seat at the end of his term.


106 posted on 02/08/2020 8:46:19 PM PST by Citizen Soldier
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To: pgyanke

Was Obama’s House they owned in Chicago during his eight years guarded by the Secret Service while they hardly ever went there?


107 posted on 02/08/2020 8:48:03 PM PST by Citizen Soldier
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To: pgyanke

Exactly.

Plus, the Trumps are “not in business for their health”, as the old Jewish saying goes.


108 posted on 02/08/2020 10:07:58 PM PST by miserare ( Trump, forever and ever. Amen.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

FAKE. NEWS.


109 posted on 02/08/2020 11:08:18 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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FO, David A. Graham.

The ethical requirements demand normal fees, assclown.


110 posted on 02/09/2020 12:33:39 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: elpadre

You cannot put zeroes into accounting ledgers I don’t believe. All $ have to balance every transaction.


111 posted on 02/09/2020 2:06:04 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: mdmathis6
Perhaps Eric Trump wasn’t totally in the know about it.

He's currently running the Trump Organization. How could he not know about it?

112 posted on 02/09/2020 4:23:53 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: kiryandil
I doubt that Eric Trump lied.

So you're saying he did not say that the Secret Service pays nothing for rooms at Mar-a-Lago?

113 posted on 02/09/2020 4:25:22 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

He was asked “last year”...so maybe something occurred since “last year” that forced the issue and the secret service had to pay. Like the the G7 or other type summit Trump wanted to host at his own resort for nothing but there was such a hue and cry about “enoluments and Trump getting some such “free publicity,” from the Dems that he ultimately wasn’t allowed to host the summit. This secret service issue may be tied to something like that.

This giving secret service cheap accomodations could be twisted as some sort of “bribe” to provide more “services” beyond the SS’s mandates. I’m sure it is not but, you know the impeach happy Dems!


114 posted on 02/09/2020 7:07:14 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The Trump hotels MUSt charge for the Secret Service stays.

Why hasn’t anyone asked why.

Imagine having a Secret Servcie detail of between 100 to 200 people, who have the kind of luggage that must be secured and INSURED by the hotel business?

After providing that kind of security for the Secret Service Security, do you think the hotels are making very much IF ANYTHING as profit.Many surrounding floors and rooms must be kept vacant of usual custom.

Try baby sitting arms, ammunition, radio com devices and their doubly redundant back up equipment. Plus the Secret Service travels with weapons that we can’t even talk about here, just a phone call and seconds away from the locus where they might be needed. And it all has to be secured and kept at the ready inside a hotel where the Secret Service is staying, along with a ready roll out capacity.

I am surprised those hotels do not charge the Secret Service more. The fact is that they have to at least break even, like any business would.


115 posted on 02/09/2020 7:08:34 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: DoodleDawg
So you're saying...

"So" is the tell for cognitive dissonance.

Carry on, Doodle.

Wouldn't want you to miss your DailyTeeVee propaganda shows. They'll tell you what to think today.

116 posted on 02/09/2020 7:59:10 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Cause that’s how much the rooms cost? Seems pretty simple.


117 posted on 02/09/2020 2:40:21 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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