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R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 02:09 AM Jan 2017

Trump's Mar-a-Lago doubles initiation fees to $200,000

Crooked Donald milking his new position already! Who would have thought that the clown calling everyone else crooked is only describing himself.

http://fortune.com/2017/01/25/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-fee/

Edit to add a better article:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/mar-a-lago-membership-fee-doubles-to-200000.html
"Indeed, shortly after the fee hike was revealed, Barack Obama's former top ethics lawyer told MSNBC that the increase is a "not very subtle exploitation of the fact that the club's figurehead is now president of the U.S."

"This type of naked profiteering off of a government office is what I would expect from King Louis XVI or his modern kleptocratic equivalents, not an American president," Norm Eisen said."

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