Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Cost Taxpayers $250,000 in Just 1 Month For Family Business Trips

[demmiblue]

Source: Newsweek

President Donald Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump cost taxpayers about $250,000 in flights, hotels and other Secret Service protection expenses in one month for two trips abroad that included visits to Trump family businesses, documents obtained by a watchdog show.

When Trump’s sons flew to Dubai to cut the ribbon on a Trump brand golf course in February 2017, the Secret Service spent more than $200,000 to protect them, including about $125,000 on airfare, $75,000 for their hotel stays and more than $15,000 in cell phone, car service and other costs, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) revealed Wednesday based on Department of Homeland Security documents.

Also that month, Eric Trump flew to the Dominican Republic for a potential effort to relaunch a previously unfruitful Trump brand resort, and spent more than $30,000 on flights, hotels and car rentals, among other expenses, according to documents.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. "... documents obtained by a watchdog show."

I need to change my glasses. I thought it said they spent the money going to watch a dog show.

[Timmygoat]

2. Why?

They are either conducting personal business of lying on a beach somewhere, or maybe killing a defenseless animal. Why should the taxpayer support them.
Also consider that Trump is now saying we cannot afford veterans health care.

[notdarkyet]

3. Send them a bill. They don't work for us. The trumps think the treasury is a giant slush fund for

Them.

[pandr32]

5. Exactly

[notdarkyet]

4. 250,000 in one month? Cut them off.

[heaven05]

6. they are robbing us blind

this is so corrupt and insane... For their businesses. Isn't there some kind of prohibition against using Treasury funds for private business?

[bitterross]

7. Can we stop complaining about meaningless issues. There are important issues.

As the President's sons they are entitled to Secret Service protection.

I didn't complain about this when the SS was protecting Obama's kids and I won't complain about it for them.

I also would not recommend that any SS agent take a bullet for either of them though.

[BlueStater]

9. Those two grifting assholes can pay for their own security.

The have the money. Fuck them.

[Bengus81]

10. Were the Obama children off to a ribbon cutting for Obama Tower Hotel Africa??

Yeah,they are family and deserve SS protection but this BS is for BUSINESS,not just run of the mil daily protection. Meaningless?? Hardly............

[bitterross]

11. I wonder what people here would have said of adult Obama kids.

I suspect that if the Obama girls were adults traveling the world on private business and were to have received SS protection most everyone here would be all for it. They would blast the GOP for complaining about the costs.

[Achilleaze]

8. I don't want my hard earned tax money going for this republican shit

republicans can go pound sand

[BillyBobBrilliant]

12. Time for a couple

of cases of retro-active abortion...