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Rolling Stone: Trump Used Secret Service Protection to Scam Taxpayers
Rolling Stone ^ | 10/17/2022

Posted on 10/17/2022 12:37:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Dogbert41

Before we scrutinize Trump, how much is Biden charging for personal security?

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/joe-biden-also-profited-off-the-secret-service-it-was-also-wrong/

From the article :

Biden received two federal contracts from the Department of Homeland Security for the “lease/rental of other federal buildings.” The contracts cover April 1, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2017, and they add up to $171,600. This was the $2,200 per month the Secret Service paid to rent a cottage on the Bidens’ Wilmington, Delaware, property so that agents could be there on-site to protect the vice president.

This is relevant today because of the similarities to and differences from the Secret Service’s hefty rents paid to Trump-owned properties during the Trump administration.

The similarity is this: Being president or vice president shouldn’t give you an easy way to make money while you’re in office. The Bidens rented out a cottage. Being a landlord brings with it risks, such as nonpayment, needy tenants, or destructive tenants. The Secret Service is, presumably, a much easier tenant with no risk of nonpayment, and it even paid five, six, 12 months in advance, according to federal records.

That’s not a massive benefit, and the Bidens look to have charged market rates, but it’s still a benefit to have the money months in advance with the risks and costs mitigated dramatically.


21 posted on 10/17/2022 12:51:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: HamiltonJay

Here’s more:

https://nypost.com/2021/11/16/biden-delaware-trips-cost-about-3m-in-secret-service-alone/amp/

Americans may be grappling with how to put food on the table amid a sharp rise in the cost of everyday goods — but you’d never know it from the tab President Biden has racked up on their dime.

Biden’s regular weekend and a few midweek trips home to Delaware have cost nearly $3 million in security alone, Secret Service expense records shared with The Post show.

Biden’s security detail spent $1.96 million on 16 trips to his Delaware homes this year, the records indicate. Another nine trips aren’t yet counted and likely push the total to $3 million.

Those 25 trips have been racked up in just 43 weeks in office.

And the true price tag to taxpayers is higher because the Pentagon hasn’t released costs for Air Force One and Marine One helicopter trips.


22 posted on 10/17/2022 12:52:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Lower Deck

Speaking of the sons of Presidents …

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/secret-service-paying-30k-month-malibu-mansion-protect/story?id=83821498

Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden.

The luxury rental property has “gorgeous ocean views,” according to its listing.


23 posted on 10/17/2022 12:53:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Doesn't everyone go straight to an old irrelevant remnant rag from a bygone era when bellbottoms were cool to find truth?
24 posted on 10/17/2022 12:55:11 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: HamiltonJay

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked emails reveal Hunter Biden’s real estate company received a $40MILLION investment from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the billionaire widow of corrupt Moscow mayor, who also paid president’s son $3.5million consulting fee

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11250873/Hunter-Bidens-company-received-40MILLION-investment-Russian-oligarch-Yelena-Baturina.html


25 posted on 10/17/2022 12:56:02 PM PDT by Syntyr (Happiness is two at low eight!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump didn’t accept his $400,000 per hear salary for 4 years, so that’s $1.6 million. So Carolyn Maloney, unrealistically assuming your bs argument isn’t based on lies, the guberment owes Trump $200,000.


26 posted on 10/17/2022 12:56:34 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: SeekAndFind

That rag is still in print?


27 posted on 10/17/2022 12:56:45 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: SeekAndFind

how is this rag still in circulation?


28 posted on 10/17/2022 12:58:55 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: SeekAndFind

government rate?? Where did that come from??


29 posted on 10/17/2022 1:00:15 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama took trips overseas with huge unnecessary retinues that cost taxpayers millions of dollars.


30 posted on 10/17/2022 1:00:38 PM PDT by odawg
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To: HamiltonJay

and paid russian hookers to pee in his bed to spite obama /s


31 posted on 10/17/2022 1:01:04 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Carter charged the Secret Service for the left overs from his meals. But seriously, the Service have a lot of requirements that private citizens don’t have.


32 posted on 10/17/2022 1:01:45 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL.. they already tried this nonsense- the government overpays for everything- lets move on. Donald Trump lost money being President unlike every other recent POTUS.


33 posted on 10/17/2022 1:02:11 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: SeekAndFind

Gat back to me when there is an audit on what the Democrat hoax Crossfire Hurricane cost the taxpayers and what it cost all the innocents wto were dragged into it based on fake info supplied by the Russians and Hillary Clinton’s flying monkeys.


34 posted on 10/17/2022 1:02:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: mylife

Yeah it is, Werner many years ago left his wife and kids and came out Gay. He finally found himself.


35 posted on 10/17/2022 1:02:40 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: piasa

what about that big African trip Clinton took before he left office, it cost 10’s of Millions and no one called him on it.


36 posted on 10/17/2022 1:04:00 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: SeekAndFind

The same Donald Trump that never took a penny of his salary as President, but donated all of it.


37 posted on 10/17/2022 1:04:18 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many taxpayer millions did Moochelle spend on lavish vacations while lamenting how much she had sacrificed?


38 posted on 10/17/2022 1:04:19 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Dogbert41

Well said.


39 posted on 10/17/2022 1:05:01 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Romans 12:12)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

it sucked then and it sucks now


40 posted on 10/17/2022 1:05:24 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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