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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSecret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump's properties
Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trumps properties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-has-paid-rates-as-high-as-650-a-night-for-rooms-at-trumps-properties/2020/02/06/7f27a7c6-3ec5-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html
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President Trumps company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties billing U.S. taxpayers at rates as high as $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts. Those charges, compiled here for the first time, show that Trump has an unprecedented and largely hidden business relationship with his own government. When Trump visits his clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, N.J., the service needs space to post guards and store equipment.
Trumps company says it charges only minimal fees. But Secret Service records do not show that. At Trumps Mar-a-Lago Club, the Secret Service was charged the $650 rate dozens of times in 2017, and a different rate, $396.15, dozens more times in 2018, according to documents from Trumps visits. And at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the Secret Service was charged $17,000 a month to use a three-bedroom cottage on the property, an unusually high rent for homes in that area, according to receipts from 2017. Trumps company billed the government even for days when Trump wasnt there.
The full extent of the Secret Services payments to Trumps company is not known. The Secret Service has not listed them in public databases of federal spending, as is usually required for payments over $10,000. Instead, documents have come out piecemeal, through public records requests from news organizations and watchdog groups. The Washington Post compiled available records and found 103 payments from the Secret Service to Trumps company dated between January 2017 and April 2018.
The records show more than $471,000 in payments from taxpayers to Trumps companies. But because these records cover only a fraction of Trumps travel during a fraction of his term the actual total is likely to be higher. It is more than a little disconcerting, knowing this is going on, and not knowing what the actual numbers are, said Jordan Libowitz, of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Thats kind of crazy that we know the president is benefiting from the presidency, and we do not know how. We do not know how many taxpayer dollars are in his pocket.
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Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump's properties (Original Post)
KelleyKramer
Feb 2020
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UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)1. The corruption is far and wide and will take many years to suss out. nt