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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Did anyone ever do an audit on how much Obama and Biden charged tax payers for their personal security? Why this scrutiny amounting to a colonoscopy only on Trump?
Consider the source.
His is pathetic. Even by the MSM’s own low standards.
sounds like another filing by Trump for a law suit to me
Yep, he became president, and gave up the 400k salary just to overcharge on hotel rooms....
rolling eyes....
Imagine if you will that the government looked into the Biden’s finances with an 1/8th fo the zeal they seem obsessed with doing on Trump’s.
Every cover was either a "pretty" boy or a girl made-up to look like a boy.
No gadar required to figure out what team the publisher and editors play for.
Protecting Hunter Biden is costing taxpayers a fortune. I don’t mind protecting the President. I do mind paying for other people’s wars.
How many other Presidents worked 20 hours a day and donated every penny of his salary?
Big middle finger to the Satanic false prophets in MEDIA.
They just keep throwing HAIL MARY PASSES. It is getting ridiculous.
Colonoscopy isn’t so bad except for the purging.
Clinton’s did the same...................
Rate is based on market environment.
Can pay up to one and a half more than per diem.
Not unusual.
Basic per diem is well below daily per diem like $75 daily.
In college, I was a charter member of Mother Jones. Never renewed. I was anti-big government, not socialist.
They didn’t have to stay there and Trump properties don’t have to give the SS ridiculous discounts. If the cost is such a problem, get some unused FEMA RV trailers and let the agents live in the parking lots.
The rolling stone needs to lay off the bong for a few days.
As far as “the going rate” versus some other rate - at Trump properties, I would not be surprised to learn that one reson for the difference was from special requirements of the Secret Service, that would havee been special requirements, and added costs, no matter where Trump stayed.
I doubt Trump’s reaons or purpose for staying at Trump properties was just so Trump could “profit” off the government. I am sure he had any number of legitimate reasons for where he chose to stay.
On the other hand, while we are on the topic. I would like to see all government officials required to place their investment assets in a blind trust - something that Dim nor GOP majorities in Congress seem to be in favor of.
And there was a gang rape at a UVA frat house.
And hospitals in Oklahoma are overwhelmed with Ivermectin overdose patients.
I thought that charges for these kind of expenses were paid for by the government at a specified rate and not necessarily what the ownership charged. So Eric Trump can claim that the government wasn’t charged a dime for Secret Service and look like an idiot lying about it. Rolling Stone can claim that the Secret Service was overcharged by a ton if money and Trump was responsible. The facts of the matter are almost certainly somewhere in between.
Rolling Stone?
I call BS
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