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Guess who paid for Donald Trump's crazy-corrupt Mar-a-Lago Christmas party? We did
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit resort in Palm Beach, Florida, with a Saturday visit to his course in neighboring West Palm Beach. The new total is the equivalent of 296 years of the $400,000 presidential salary that his supporters often boast that he is not taking.
And of that $118.3 million, at least several million has gone into Trump’s own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
The exact amount going into Trump’s pocket cannot be determined because the White House refuses to reveal how many Trump aides have been staying at his properties when he visits them and the administration will not turn over receipts for the charges incurred.
Again, that doesn't count all the big spenders who line his pockets by staying at his hotels or buy memberships for the chance to curry favor.
Recall that the Republicans were hysterical about the cost of Obama's official and unofficial travel and Trump relentlessly ragged on him for playing golf too much, even though Obama did so almost exclusively at local military bases. Trump plays more golf than any president in history — and insists on his own courses so he can pocket the revenues himself.
And of course the president is celebrating Christmas by having the taxpayers and his rich friends foot the bill for this year's decadent throwback celebration at his private Florida clubhouse. What could be a better Christmas gift than that? Just because he's been impeached doesn't mean he has to pass up a payday.
And of that $118.3 million, at least several million has gone into Trump’s own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
The exact amount going into Trump’s pocket cannot be determined because the White House refuses to reveal how many Trump aides have been staying at his properties when he visits them and the administration will not turn over receipts for the charges incurred.
Again, that doesn't count all the big spenders who line his pockets by staying at his hotels or buy memberships for the chance to curry favor.
Recall that the Republicans were hysterical about the cost of Obama's official and unofficial travel and Trump relentlessly ragged on him for playing golf too much, even though Obama did so almost exclusively at local military bases. Trump plays more golf than any president in history — and insists on his own courses so he can pocket the revenues himself.
And of course the president is celebrating Christmas by having the taxpayers and his rich friends foot the bill for this year's decadent throwback celebration at his private Florida clubhouse. What could be a better Christmas gift than that? Just because he's been impeached doesn't mean he has to pass up a payday.
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/23/guess-who-paid-for-donald-trumps-crazy-corrupt-mar-a-lago-christmas-party-we-did/
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