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malaise

(269,103 posts)
Thu Jun 27, 2019, 12:22 PM Jun 2019

This is absolute madness - Trump hotel in Washington charged Secret Service $200,000 in president's

first year

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/trump-hotel-washington-charged-secret-service-200-000-president-s-n1022641
During the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Trump International Hotel in Washington charged the Secret Service more than $200,000 in taxpayer money, including a bill topping $30,000 for two days of use, according to expense documents obtained by NBC News.

The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request covering Secret Service expenditures, detail money the agency spent at the property from September 2016 to February 2018, which came to a total of $215,254.

While the nature of the charges were not disclosed in the documents, the hotel five blocks from the White House has become a go-to venue for Trump and his supporters for various events, including a fundraiser the president attended Tuesday for his re-election campaign.

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This is absolute madness - Trump hotel in Washington charged Secret Service $200,000 in president's (Original Post) malaise Jun 2019 OP
High Class Grifter...... ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2019 #1
I wish we could remove them, then pandr32 Jun 2019 #2
And that money goes straight to Trump sakabatou Jun 2019 #3

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
1. High Class Grifter......
Thu Jun 27, 2019, 12:40 PM
Jun 2019

To Trump, everything is business and money in his pockets. But see his Tax Returns.....NO FUCKING WAY!

pandr32

(11,595 posts)
2. I wish we could remove them, then
Thu Jun 27, 2019, 12:47 PM
Jun 2019

Let him pay for his own bodyguards. The Secret Service go with him to his other properties as well. We've had to pay for their rooms and golf carts to follow the orange traitor around.

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