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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 Trumps 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.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)To Trump, everything is business and money in his pockets. But see his Tax Returns.....NO FUCKING WAY!
pandr32
(11,595 posts)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.