Posted on 10/17/2022 12:37:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump charged the Secret Service as much as five times the typical government rate to stay at his properties, records obtained by the House Oversight Committee reveal. The development is only the latest example of the former president using the office to enrich himself.
“The exorbitant rates charged to the Secret Service and agents’ frequent stays at Trump-owned properties raise significant concerns about the former President’s self-dealing and may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump’s struggling businesses,” Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) wrote to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
The committee obtained records showing the Trump Organization overcharged the Secret Service to stay at Trump properties on at least 40 occasions, including once instance in which they charged the agency $1,185 per night to protect Donald Trump Jr. when the government rate was $201.
The Trump Organization charged the Secret Service at total of $1.4 million to accommodate agents protecting the president and his family, which means $1.4 million in taxpayer money went directly to the president’s private company. Trump visited his properties constantly while in office, including making 145 trips to Mar-a-Lago — the Palm Beach, Florida, estate where he hoarded hundreds of classified documents after leaving the White House.
“Given the long-standing concerns surrounding the former President’s conflicts of interest and efforts to profit off the presidency, the committee has a strong interest in obtaining a complete accounting of federal government spending at Trump properties,” Maloney continued
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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.
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.
Speaking of the sons of Presidents …
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.
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
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.
That rag is still in print?
how is this rag still in circulation?
government rate?? Where did that come from??
Obama took trips overseas with huge unnecessary retinues that cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
and paid russian hookers to pee in his bed to spite obama /s
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.
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.
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.
Yeah it is, Werner many years ago left his wife and kids and came out Gay. He finally found himself.
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.
The same Donald Trump that never took a penny of his salary as President, but donated all of it.
How many taxpayer millions did Moochelle spend on lavish vacations while lamenting how much she had sacrificed?
Well said.
it sucked then and it sucks now
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