Trump Hotel raised prices to deter QAnon conspiracists, police files show

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump Hotel raised prices to deter QAnon conspiracists, police files show

• Washington hotel pushed prices up on March weekend this year
• Rise was ‘security tactic to prevent protesters booking rooms’

Jason Wilson
@jason_a_w
Sat 22 May 2021 08.30 BST

Police intelligence documents show that Washington’s Trump Hotel raised its rates “as a security tactic”, in the hope of deterring Trump-supporting QAnon supporters from staying there in early March, on a day which some believed would see Trump restored to office.

The information, which police gleaned from a Business Insider version of a story published in Forbes on 6 February, was confirmed in an 8 February intelligence briefing stolen by ransomware hackers from Washington’s Metropolitan police department (MPD).

The hackers from the Babuk group subsequently published those documents online, and transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets redistributed them to news outlets including the Guardian.

As Forbes reported in February, Trump International hotel in Washington raised its rates to 180% of the normal seasonal charge for 3 and 4 March this year.

That was a date upon which some adherents to the QAnon conspiracy movement believed would see Trump once again sworn in as president, ...

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/22/trump-hotel-washington-qanon-conspiracy-theorists

[Lovie777]

1. Qanon won't believe it . . . ..

it's all about the leftist lies.....................................

[Marcuse]

2. Just another opportunity for grift.

[madaboutharry]

3. Sounds like more of an "Event" price.

Just like the way all the hotels around universities double the room rate the weekend of graduation.

[GoCubsGo]

4. And, those stupid suckers are still willing to die or go to prison for him,

even though he holds them in contempt. Go ahead, give your money and loyalty to a guy who hates you. Hope you find the consequences all worth it. SMGDH.

[Blue Owl]

5. Space Cadet Oddity

As in how odd that Diaper Donny shun those who idolize him — I guess he only likes to bask in the moron glory at his rallies

[tanyev]

6. LOL. Glorious Leader wants you to put him back in power,

but he really doesn't want you staying in his hotel.

[WhiteTara]

7. Ginni was paying, so of course,

they upped the rates. Never let an opportunity for a grift go by.