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Trump's D.C. Hotel Jacked Up Its Prices as Trump Began Plotting a D.C.-Based Convention
Hatch Act doesn't apply to the president they say. Rachel Maddow mentioned this at the start of one of her shows last week.
....the hotel bearing his name down the street is making a power play of its own: spiking its room rates by more than 60 percent for those convention dates.
Listings for rooms at the Trump International Hotel in D.C., via Hotels.com, show rooms for one adult on the night of the address starting at $795 and running as high as $2,070.
That price tag represents a massive increase from the $495 starting rate currently offered for the dates one week following and one week prior.
Ethics experts have questioned the move as a potential violation of the Hatch Act which prohibits federal government employees from engaging in some forms of political activity. But Trump, later in the day, defended the idea of a White House convention speech by noting the president isn’t subject to the law.
“There is no Hatch Act because it doesn’t pertain to the president,” he said.
... coming to D.C. to be part of the festivities. Those people would need accommodations and hotels would stand to benefit. So would Trump. The president earned $40.5 million last year from the luxury lodgings inside the federally owned Old Post Office building.
Listings for rooms at the Trump International Hotel in D.C., via Hotels.com, show rooms for one adult on the night of the address starting at $795 and running as high as $2,070.
That price tag represents a massive increase from the $495 starting rate currently offered for the dates one week following and one week prior.
Ethics experts have questioned the move as a potential violation of the Hatch Act which prohibits federal government employees from engaging in some forms of political activity. But Trump, later in the day, defended the idea of a White House convention speech by noting the president isn’t subject to the law.
“There is no Hatch Act because it doesn’t pertain to the president,” he said.
... coming to D.C. to be part of the festivities. Those people would need accommodations and hotels would stand to benefit. So would Trump. The president earned $40.5 million last year from the luxury lodgings inside the federally owned Old Post Office building.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dc-hotel-jacked-up-its-prices-as-trump-began-plotting-a-dc-based-republican-national-convention
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