Since leaving office, Trump has charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 to use space at Mar-a-L

[sinkingfeeling]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-secret-service-charges/2021/05/20/d328eb5c-9d36-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html

Former president Donald Trump charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 this spring for rooms that Trump’s own protective detail used while guarding him at his Mar-a-Lago Club, according to federal spending records.

The records show that Trump’s club charged the Secret Service $396.15 every night starting Jan. 20, the day he left the White House and moved full-time into his Palm Beach, Fla., club.

Those charges, ultimately paid by taxpayers, continued until at least April 30, the spending records show, for a total of $40,011.15. The charges were for a single room used as a workspace by Secret Service agents, according to one person familiar with the payments.

"It’s tacky,” Jeffrey A. Engel, the director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, said of Trump’s new charges. “Just because you can make a buck doesn’t mean you should make a buck. And especially when you have a situation where you’re an ex-president. You’re not going to starve.”

[Botany]

1. Grifters gotta grift.

@ this point how could any thinking person still support Trump?

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. Your title is exactly what I was going to say.

Gotta be who you are. Unfortunately, what he has to be is a venal, selfish, grandiose and totally dishonest POS with delusions of adequacy.

I was going to say something nasty, but my better angels took over.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Of *course* it's tacky. It's what he does best.

"Let trump be trump," his worshippers said. Well, this is trump being trump. Is anyone really surprised?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

8. +1

[world wide wally]

3. If this is your hero... You have some self reflection to do.

[usaf-vet]

4. So let me get this straight the USSS is charged 40K to protect an "EMPLOYEE" of mar-a-dump.

[MontanaMama]

5. Wonder if these Secret Service members are still

on the tRump bandwagon and still getting some action in the side. Where’s Tiffany these days? The whole situation is skeevy.

[llashram]

6. so he charges the

Secret Service to protect his useless ass?!? How is this possible? I say move him to a one-room shack. This is one disgusting scam-sham-grift. Open! Without shame! God, he and his complete family are despicable human beings. Sociopaths all...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. What will Secret Service have to pay for an adjacent prison cell ...

... when justice is served? They'll have to guard him all his 15 to 30 years in the pen, right?

[Ford_Prefect]

9. Just put him on a remote island with no internet and slowly rising tides

the same as they did to Bonaparte.

[NYC Liberal]

13. They'd just keep him on a military base not in a regular prison.

[BGBD]

10. Fuck that guy

Just don't pay it. What is he gonna do about it?

[seta1950]

11. We should not pay

Taxpayers are providing protection that’s more than enough in my opinion.

[Blue Owl]

12. I hope no SS agent ever has to take a bullet for that fat fuck

What an awful waste that would be...

[SoonerPride]

14. They should simply stiff him. That's what he does.

Just don't fucking pay.

Period.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Another part of the Trump scam.

[lpbk2713]

17. Too bad the SS can't write Trump off as a bad investment.

And get the hell outta there.