Trump family travel cost $140,000+ in just the first month post-presidency

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Citizens for Ethics
@CREWcrew
NEW: In just the 30 days after Donald Trump left the presidency, his adult childrens' travels cost taxpayers more than $140,000.

Trump extended their Secret Service protection by six months in one of his last moves as president.

Trump family travel cost $140,000+ in just the first month post-presidency - CREW | Citizens for...
In just the thirty days after Donald Trump left the presidency, his childrens’ travel cost taxpayers more than $140,000.
citizensforethics.org
6:51 AM · May 5, 2021

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-family-travel-cost-140000-in-just-the-first-month-post-presidency/

Trump’s adult children have cost taxpayers a lot of money over the years, but this time, it’s different. CREW got records from the Secret Service that show that in just the thirty days after Donald Trump left the presidency, his childrens’ travel cost taxpayers more than $140,000. That figure, however, does not include charges at Trump properties in Bedminster, Palm Beach and Briarcliff, New York, which would likely bring the actual total much higher.

The reason these charges are different is that they all occurred after Joe Biden’s inauguration, and, ordinarily, a former president’s children are no longer entitled to Secret Service protection. Donald Trump took the unusual step of extending the protection for his family members and three top appointees by six months, giving them that much more time to funnel money to his own properties. CREW filed a Freedom of Information Act request in February to get a snapshot of the costs.

An additional six months of protection was likely to be quite costly, because, as CREW previously reported, the Trump family took 12 times as many protected trips as the Obama family did per year. The new records reveal that in just thirty days, the Trump children maintained their breakneck speed of travel, and racked up significant hotel and transportation bills for the Secret Service. The transportation amounted to $52,296.75, and hotel costs totalled at least $88,678.39, according to the records.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump went directly from their jobs at the White House to a ten day vacation in Salt Lake City with their three children, which cost $62,599.39 for hotel stays alone for their detail. From there, they went to Miami for the month of February, with a short stay at Trump’s Bedminster property from February 19-21. The Secret Service turned over no receipts for that leg of the trip, though it almost certainly funnelled taxpayer money to the Trump business.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Why are we paying still for a billionaire (supposedly billionaire)?

[Mr.Bill]

2. Biden should cancel their SS protection.

And to those that worry a future republican president will do that to us if we do it to them, don't worry, they will do it anyway.

[hibbing]

3. While they travel to continue grifting n/t