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Related: About this forumBREAKING: Congress EXPOSES Trump's MASSIVE Price Gouging Government at Trump Hotels with NEW DOCS
New documents have emerged that the House Oversight Committee obtained showing how Trump price gouged our government agencies like the Secret Service at Trump Properties by charging $1200 per room when the government rate was $200 and doing this repeatedly at least to to the tune of $1.4 million and likely more. Chair of the House Oversight Committee Carolyn Maloney wrote to the Secret Service demanding more financial records to investigate the full extent of Trumps fraud. - Meidas Touch.
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BREAKING: Congress EXPOSES Trump's MASSIVE Price Gouging Government at Trump Hotels with NEW DOCS (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Oct 2022
OP
We knew this the first 6 months of his administration. Is he still selling merch
Runningdawg
Oct 2022
#4
We know that he has that NYC bar filled with "mementos" of his administration
Rhiannon12866
Oct 2022
#5
It'll never happen, but he should be forced to pay back the difference between the agreed amount
Rhiannon12866
Oct 2022
#7
dchill
(38,497 posts)1. Wonder what the Secret Service split was.
bucolic_frolic
(43,166 posts)2. Government provisioning has always been a most lucrative field
Because you can charge whatever you like as long as someone in power signs off on it.
Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)3. And TFG and his cronies (family) had the power
Not to mention, he owned hotels in D.C. and other major cities which reps from other countries patronized to curry favor with the former guy. He never gave up control of his businesses (like Jimmy Carter), he used his office to rake in the funds from taxpayers...
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)4. We knew this the first 6 months of his administration. Is he still selling merch
with the presidential seal of office in the Mara largo gift shop too? Or just the codes to reposition spy satellites?
Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)5. We know that he has that NYC bar filled with "mementos" of his administration
Including a photo of TFG with his BFF, Kim Jong-un, in pride of place...
Deuxcents
(16,221 posts)6. Make him reimburse US.
Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)7. It'll never happen, but he should be forced to pay back the difference between the agreed amount
Or face even more legal consequences.