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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 11:33 PM Aug 2018

Suit wants to know Secret Service cost for Trump Jr. trip to India

San Francisco Ethics Commissioner Quentin Kopp filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to force the Secret Service to turn over documents detailing how much it cost taxpayers to protect Donald Trump Jr. while he was on a business trip to India on behalf of the Trump Organization.

In February, Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son and executive vice president at the Trump Organization, traveled to India for a weeklong tour to promote Trump-branded luxury properties across that country.

The tour featured a dinner with Trump Jr., for which prospective condo buyers paid a $38,000 “booking fee,” according to the complaint, which cited reporting by national media outlets.

“Taxpayers deserve to know where their money is being spent and why their money is being spent to protect the adult son of the president on a trip designed solely to support the interests of the Trump organization,” said Kopp’s lawyer, Justin Berger.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Kopp-sues-Secret-Service-in-SF-wants-to-know-13156055.php?src=hp_totn

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Suit wants to know Secret Service cost for Trump Jr. trip to India (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2018 OP
K&R. G - R - I - F - T ! dchill Aug 2018 #1
Make him pay. There are other trips charged to us. One recently him and Eric on a business notdarkyet Aug 2018 #2
K&R! 2naSalit Aug 2018 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author kimbutgar Aug 2018 #4
Someone said this is a fake article left-of-center2012 Aug 2018 #5
republicans are squandering our hard-earned tax dollars on "billionaires" Achilleaze Aug 2018 #6
Good. It's about time they start being held accountable for ripping off smirkymonkey Aug 2018 #7
the indians he met with were corrupt people who had stolen millions of dollars JI7 Aug 2018 #8

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
2. Make him pay. There are other trips charged to us. One recently him and Eric on a business
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 11:48 PM
Aug 2018

Trip to Scotland. 250,000 to taxpayers.

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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
5. Someone said this is a fake article
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 12:34 AM
Aug 2018
1. Someone said this is a fake article;
that it's not from the real SF Chronicle website.

Here are two links from other sources :

SF ethics commissioner sues over Trump Jr.'s use of taxpayer dollars on India trip
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-ethics-commissioner-sues-trump-jr-s-use-taxpayer-dollars-india-trip/

Quentin Kopp Sues Feds Over Trump Jr.'s Security Budget - August 14, 2018
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/quentin-kopp-sues-feds-over-trump-jr-s-security-budget/


She also said:
2.That Quentin Kopp is not listed as being on the San Francisco Ethics Commission :
https://sfethics.org/commission/commissioners

City & County of San Francisco Ethics Commission
Vice-Chair Quentin L. Kopp
Term: February 28, 2017 to February 1, 2023

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
6. republicans are squandering our hard-earned tax dollars on "billionaires"
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 05:41 AM
Aug 2018

who are deceitful and treasonous to the citizens of these United States.

And republicans wonder why everyone calls them "deplorable"

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. Good. It's about time they start being held accountable for ripping off
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 05:44 AM
Aug 2018

the tax-payers. These people have no morals.

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