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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)
Fri May 21, 2021, 08:58 PM May 2021

Trump Is Still Squeezing Money Out of Taxpayers

Former president Donald Trump has continued a trend at the Mar-a-Lago Club that began during his time in the White House: charging the Secret Service for expenses accrued while protecting him.

According to a report from the Washington Post, Trump’s Florida club and new residence has been charging the Secret Service $396.15 a night for a room for his security detail, beginning on January 20 when Trump left Washington, D.C., and Joe Biden was sworn in as president. The Secret Service released the information in response to a public-records request by the newspaper. Trump has charged the Secret Services through at least April 30, at which point they totaled $40,011.15 — an amount that will ultimately be footed by taxpayers.

A source familiar with the financials told the Post that the charges were for a single room that Secret Service agents used as a “workspace.”

The Post has previously reported on Trump charging the U.S. government at least $2.5 million while in office, money that went to his company due to the former president’s penchant for frequenting his own properties, such as Mar-a-Lago and his Bedminster, New Jersey, club.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-still-squeezing-money-out-of-taxpayers/ar-AAKf72F

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Trump Is Still Squeezing Money Out of Taxpayers (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
Within a year, a large motor home would mostly pay for itself. keithbvadu2 May 2021 #1
He's entitled up to a million a year in security. Although GSA could lower it some jimfields33 May 2021 #3
Little Donny's tiny fingers squeezing with all their puny might Blue Owl May 2021 #2

keithbvadu2

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1. Within a year, a large motor home would mostly pay for itself.
Fri May 21, 2021, 11:57 PM
May 2021

Within a year, a large motor home would mostly pay for itself.

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