Mike Pence's Political Team Has Spent Nearly a Quarter Million Dollars at Trump Properties
Source: Daily Beast
Vice President Mike Pence says his boss didn’t order him to stay at a Trump property during an official visit to Ireland over the weekend, despite it being more than 150 miles from where a slew of official meetings will take place. Which would fit with a pattern. Pence has never needed orders to steer money to his boss’s businesses.
Since 2017, Pence’s political group, the Great America Committee, has dropped about $224,000 at Trump properties, chiefly the Trump International Hotel in Washington and its on-site steakhouse, according to Federal Election Commission records maintained by ProPublica.
Such spending appears to be a family affair. Pence’s brother, freshman Rep. Greg Pence (R-IN), has also dropped considerable sums at the Trump hotel. In fact, Rep. Pence’s campaign amended a number of FEC filings this year after USA Today noted that the campaign appeared to be illegally paying for the congressman to live at the Trump hotel. The Pence campaign said those expenses were reported incorrectly, and amended FEC filings accordingly.
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The latest expenditures are different than the others, however, in that the U.S. taxpayers, not Pence’s political donors, are picking up the tab. The VP will be staying at the Trump Doonbeg golf resort during his trip to Ireland. According to his chief of staff Marc Short, he is doing so after Donald Trump “suggested” the resort, from which the president still profits. And according to Pence, he got the okay to do so from the State Department.
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Diabolical.
the ambassadors residence when on travel, that's why it there.......................or did you forget that part when you signed your ethics paperwork.....................LOCK YOUR ASS UP............................
