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Trump family’s elaborate lifestyle is a ‘logistical nightmare’ — at taxpayer expense
Washington Post ^ | February 16,2017 | Drew Harwell, Amy Brittain, and Jonathan O'Connell

Posted on 02/17/2017 3:22:48 AM PST by C19fan

On Friday, President Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. On Saturday, Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr., with their Secret Service details in tow, will be nearly 8,000 miles away in the United Arab Emirates, attending the grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in the “Beverly Hills of Dubai.”

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KEYWORDS: fakenews; hitpiece; msm; nevertrump; ssprotection; trumpchildren
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To: CincyRichieRich

0bungler squandered some $84million on personal vacations alone. That figure does not include the amount of taxpayer dollars wasted using Air Force 1 as his personal taxi while wasting more money shilling for Hillary


41 posted on 02/17/2017 4:45:03 AM PST by okie 54
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To: C19fan

Three fake journalists were needed to scribble this garbage.


42 posted on 02/17/2017 5:03:57 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: C19fan
On Friday, President Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump is going home. Big deal. Members of Congress fly home almost every weekend. Long distance commuting by our political elites has been growing for decades. We can discuss whether its a good thing (get them out of the DC bubble and back home) or a bad thing (a waste of taxpayers' money), but it's not a new thing.

This story usually is reported as an exercise in partisan sniping, with figures inflected for effect. It's a bit complicated when you get down into the weeds. No one objects to a working trip with a crowded itinerary. Questions arise when working trips become junkets, with a few scattered official meetings, often vanishingly trivial, to lend cover to visits to ritzy locations. The same thing happens when presidents abuse official travel to attend political events. Then again, presidents do take vacations, and no one objects in moderation. As far as I'm concerned, presidents going back home is in another category altogether, and I don't object to it.

In the days of modern jet air travel, which is the relevant era to consider: LBJ liked to get back to the ranch, as did Reagan and Bush 43. Bush 41 retreated to Kennebunkport when he could. Nixon was not a wealthy man and I don't recall if he kept a private home when he was in the White House, but he liked to get back to California and famously hung out with his buddy Bebe Rebozo in Florida. I don't remember how often Jimmy Carter got back to Plains, but like Nixon, Carter did not live ostentatiously and I don't remember any controversy about his travels.

The two presidents that stick out are Clinton and Obama. The Clintons, of course, did not own a home, having gotten used to the Governor's Mansion and then the White House, but they sure liked to travel. Obama is an oddity because he had a very nice home in Chicago, but seemed to have very little interest in getting back. Most presidents have been very attached to their roots. Of course, for Obama, "roots" seemed to mean Hawaii, not Chicago. But like the Clintons, the Obamas were excessively fond of resort destinations.

The left will always try to equate Reagan and Bush going back to the ranch and chopping wood, when they didn't just go to Camp David, to the Clintons and Obamas jetting around the world to exotic locations at the drop of a hat. It's an old game, and tiresome.

43 posted on 02/17/2017 5:04:41 AM PST by sphinx
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To: C19fan

Help help...I am winning too much!!!


44 posted on 02/17/2017 5:08:01 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: C19fan

The article did mention Judicial Watch’s keeping tabs on 0bama’s vacation expenses.


45 posted on 02/17/2017 5:10:30 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Life was so much better before Hart-Cellar.)
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To: silverleaf

I don’t begrudge Trump weekends in Florida or in New York. I also didn’t begrudge Obama his travels. The presidency is a killer of a job and the president should be able to relax when he can. I’m not as comfortable with is sons getting Secret Service protection; Carter’s adult children didn’t, Reagan’s adult children didn’t, George W. Bush’s adult children didn’t. But that’s up to the president as well, and if Valarie Jarrett got Secret Service protection then Trump’s boys might as well get it too.


46 posted on 02/17/2017 5:11:34 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: sphinx

Pelosi flew home every weekend to CA from DC on a 757.

She was only the Speaker of the House.

Trump works in DC, on the plane, at Mar-A-Lago, on the plane back.

Money well spent.

Love that he will be at Boeing in South Carolina today, right after the machinists voted to reject the union.


47 posted on 02/17/2017 5:21:31 AM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Do you think trumps family is vulnerable to hate and terrorism and do you think them being unprotected might affect his ability to do his job?

Erik and his wife received envelopes of white powder at their home during the campaign

Chelsea Clinton I believe was granted lifetime secret service protection
What a job


48 posted on 02/17/2017 5:22:57 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: C19fan
HABIB: Sounds cool, can I fly around with you? BARRACK: No man, Soros says no. I wish, Habib.
49 posted on 02/17/2017 5:26:18 AM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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To: DoodleDawg
But if Obama’s travel expenses were excessive then how can we turn a blind eye to Trump’s?

Because Obama's expenses were cavalier and abusive whereas Trump's are just high.

We knew who we were electing!


50 posted on 02/17/2017 5:30:48 AM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: silverleaf
Do you think trumps family is vulnerable to hate and terrorism and do you think them being unprotected might affect his ability to do his job?

Is that not true of every president's children?

Chelsea Clinton I believe was granted lifetime secret service protection.

I believe you are mistaken.

51 posted on 02/17/2017 5:32:44 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: C19fan

How much has been spent in the last 30 days on the Zero family elaborate lifestyle - at taxpayer expense?


52 posted on 02/17/2017 5:37:44 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you." President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: silverleaf

Chelsea does not have SS protection.

I recall that Chelsea had SS for a short time during the campaign when she supposedly had a key role, but things change dramatically after an election.

Key Trump aids also had SS protection, at least until the election.


53 posted on 02/17/2017 5:43:25 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: C19fan

double standards will continue to make news


54 posted on 02/17/2017 5:46:01 AM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is. Tell the Storm how BIG your God is!)
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To: CincyRichieRich
-- Maybe Paul Shanklin can do a version of steely Dan song, FM.
Fake news.
--

I think Gaucho would be a superior platform for this.

55 posted on 02/17/2017 5:47:39 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: C19fan

Always the same with these clowns, they don’t care how much a Democrat President spends on anything but there are always aghast at what Republicans spend. They’ll be rolling out the homeless crisis any day now which amazing always disappears when there’s a Democrat administration. The media is completely cooked because no one takes them seriously anymore.


56 posted on 02/17/2017 5:48:43 AM PST by Bayan
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To: C19fan

WaPo is just jealous of CNN. They worked so hard for the title of “Very Fake News,” only to lose out to the effortless fakers at the Communist News Network.


57 posted on 02/17/2017 5:53:41 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: FES0844

Over $96mm; probably well over.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-obama-travel-costs-bring-eight-year-total-96-million/


58 posted on 02/17/2017 5:58:25 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: jjotto

I have read that SS protection can be requested and is decided by Dept of Homeland Security


59 posted on 02/17/2017 6:00:01 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

OR- the day that Obama was on a talk show that taped about 5 PM, and Moooochelle was on The Ellen Show?

They took separate planes-—from the same location -—to the same Los Angeles airport, then separate transportation to their respective shows.

2 planes—2 sets of Secret Service—2 complete sets of cost for that day!!!

The Obamas are grifters who spent taxpayer money like 2 sailors on 8 years leave.

On the Spain trip, Michelle listed her 2 kids as STAFF MEMBERS so the taxpayers paid for them.

Michelle’s mother lived in the White House with them all 8 years. She didn’t have to cook—clean—do laundry—grocery shop—wash windows—vacuum—or anything. She lived a life of pure luxury at taxpayers expense for 8 yeas. In late 2016, Obama declared that she had been the ‘child care person’ for their 2 kids, and arranged for Mama Robinson to get a LIFETIME pensions of $160,000 per year. How many other ‘grandmas’ in the USA get such a pension for babysitting their own grandchildren??? This is pure fraud, IMO.

Keep in mind that the pension of a PRESIDENT is $180,000 a year.

More theft from the Obamas. I sure wish Trump could at least put a halt to the pension for Mama Robinson.


60 posted on 02/17/2017 6:23:04 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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