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hatrack

(59,592 posts)
Tue Jun 29, 2021, 03:29 PM Jun 2021

In less than 1 month, Secret Service abandons Cokehead, Gums & Princess Grifty Sof-Tone

Donald Trump’s adult children reportedly cost taxpayers $140,000 in Secret Service security in the month after the clan’s patriarch left the White House in January. Ordinarily, family members of a president lose their security detail when they leave office. But in the case of the four Trump siblings and two of their spouses, the former president issued a directive to extend post-presidency protections by six months.

Ed. - emphasis added.

The costs, obtained by the watchdog group Citizens for Ethics, do not include security protections at Trump properties in New Jersey, Palm Beach and Briarcliff, New York. With those factored in, the total would likely be far higher, according to the group.

According to the watchdog, records reveal that the Trump children maintained a “breakneck speed of travel, and racked up significant hotel and transportation bills for the Secret Service”. Transport costs alone amounted to $52,296.75, and hotel costs totaled at least $88,678.39.

If that schedule is maintained, the group estimates, post-presidency protection costs could nearly $1m. The group has previously calculated that the Trump family made 12 times as many trips in three years as the Obamas made in seven.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/08/trump-secret-service-detail-children-post-white-house

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In less than 1 month, Secret Service abandons Cokehead, Gums & Princess Grifty Sof-Tone (Original Post) hatrack Jun 2021 OP
Don Jr's not a cokehead!! Omnipresent Jun 2021 #1
He's a walking bag of confounding symptoms and causes. Hard to tell his primal failures erronis Jun 2021 #2
I remember his response to Howard Stern asking Sr., Jr., and Vanky: "what is 6 times 17"? Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 2021 #3
Well okay, Don Jr. is a cokehead, but he only uses it... Omnipresent Jun 2021 #6
Coke enhances Junior's personality. Unfortunately, he's an asshole to begin with. 11 Bravo Jun 2021 #11
If by "challenged" ... Jopin Klobe Jun 2021 #12
Mary says he's the dumbest Trump IronLionZion Jun 2021 #19
I bet the guys on the detail LOVED that ... Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #4
Grifter savants... lame54 Jun 2021 #5
wasn't it June 30th? demtenjeep Jun 2021 #7
The article is a month old... Mazeltov Cocktail Jun 2021 #10
I think it's six months from the end of his term, so 7/20/21 hatrack Jun 2021 #15
rescind the directive and pursue restitution bringthePaine Jun 2021 #8
6 more months of not letting the Secret Service use their bathrooms. chriscan64 Jun 2021 #9
"The Help" Minny uses the toilet keithbvadu2 Jun 2021 #18
Recc'ing just based on the names alone. nt Carlitos Brigante Jun 2021 #13
I've been waiting for the day MontanaMama Jun 2021 #14
So Tiffany didn't get Secret Service protection? japple Jun 2021 #16
no matter how hard she tries, she will always be an afterthought demtenjeep Jun 2021 #17
Ivanka and Donald Junior tried to disinherit Tiffany Larissa Jun 2021 #21
Who? Oh, this one? TheBlackAdder Jun 2021 #20

erronis

(15,328 posts)
2. He's a walking bag of confounding symptoms and causes. Hard to tell his primal failures
Tue Jun 29, 2021, 03:44 PM
Jun 2021

but easy to note the lack of successes.

Genetics? Probably. Given his fam-damily it's gonna be hard to trace to the real mom or pop. Same with the rest of the spawnings.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,982 posts)
3. I remember his response to Howard Stern asking Sr., Jr., and Vanky: "what is 6 times 17"?
Tue Jun 29, 2021, 03:48 PM
Jun 2021

"uh....96?....94"?

America's First Family of Idiocy.
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. I bet the guys on the detail LOVED that ...
Tue Jun 29, 2021, 03:50 PM
Jun 2021

"Oh hai btw guys we set up a porta-pottie at the the edge of the estate ... yeah, it's about 150 yards from the Mansion, you see that little green dot? That is what you are to use!" - Princess Grifty

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
9. 6 more months of not letting the Secret Service use their bathrooms.
Tue Jun 29, 2021, 04:23 PM
Jun 2021

What the hell is their deal with that? Are they that snobbish about the "help" or are they keeping their stash in there?

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