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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Carolyn Who?
No lame duck crap
Same with Lizard Cheney
donated all of it.
to vets.
Published December 23, 2015
Biden Charges Secret Service to Rent Cottage Next to His Home
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-charges-secret-service-to-rent-cottage-next-to-his-home
The Secret Service pays the vice president $2,200 per month to rent a cottage next to his waterfront home outside Wilmington, Del., FoxNews.com has confirmed.
The Washington Times first reported that Biden has raked in more than $13,000 since April from the agency tasked with protecting him, and under the terms of their contract could make up to $66,000 by the end of 2013.
“The amount provided is based on a government formula, not set by the homeowner...”, according to a Snopes article about the Clintons when they bought a house in NY and had their security detail live on the property. If true, then what all did that amount entail, and did Trump accept payment? According to the Snopes’ Clinton article, the Clintons didn’t accept payment, although it’s standard practice that whomever the SS agents are renting from is supposed to get paid. If the Clintons didn’t, and we know how money-hungry they are, it seems unlikely that Trump would, since he seems to be far more grateful to those who work around him than they are.
Here's another example from 2019:
trump is NOT running for political office in 2022.
therefore this article is proof trump is living rent free inside rolling stone owners’ heads.
rolling stone scalawags, prove me wrong.
Do I believe this Schitt? NO!
Rolling Stone = LYING STONED
Obama had vacations half way around the world to Hawaii. Did anyone question how much that cost tax payers for secret service and plane usage? Hawaii is one of the most expensive places in the country. We (the taxpayers) flipped the bill for that.
How much is hunter costing us?
A whole lot of dimrats have ties to Ukraine.
“.....including once instance in which they charged the agency $1,185 per night to protect Donald Trump Jr. when the government rate was $201.”
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It’s my understanding that the $1,185 was the cost for several agents and the government rate of $201 was the rate for just one. I’m not sure where I got that information, but this issue came up some time ago and someone made a point of that difference.
Don’t see Clinton listed either. THAT one was “in your face” after Clinton left the WH....Trump never went into politics to enrich himself or to rip off the taxpayers.
As I understand it, Trump asked the Secret Service for a
band-aide and didn’t use it on site. Rumors state that
he used it on a Russian immigrant, clearly proof of
collusion with Russia. /s
No the Clintons actually made the SS buy an adjacent house. Curious how much that cost?
This assumes that Government Rates were available. Government Rates are capacity controlled which means there were only a limited number of rooms that could be rented at the Government Rate.
“government rate?? Where did that come from??”
Probably GSA travel per diem rates for lodging, meals and incidentals for us worker proles. All of which, of course, go out the window when it’s the President’s security detail or staff. Hell, I’ll bet Blinken’s entourage stay in hotels well above per diem. This is garbage.
He also donated his $1,600,000 salary for the four years, so the government came out ahead.
I was living in Kailua when that mutt came to Hawaii every few months. I know houses in that neighborhood rent out anywhere from 4000 to 15000 per night. It was hell when he came. And more hell when he would go out for a shave ice because they would close all three cross island highways.
Weed is getting downright strong these days.
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