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demmiblue

(36,879 posts)
Thu May 14, 2020, 05:36 PM May 2020

Trump's company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals

Source: WaPo

The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained by The Washington Post.

Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were almost all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is not known to have paid for the rooms for Trump and his family members at his properties but it has paid for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.

The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency, and continued into this year, records show.

The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to a Post analysis.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-company-has-received-at-least-970000-from-us-taxpayers-for-room-rentals/2020/05/14/26d27862-916d-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html

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Trump's company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals (Original Post) demmiblue May 2020 OP
Biggest issue I'd have is if he paid more than comparable accommodations, or somehow Hoyt May 2020 #1
Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House' keithbvadu2 May 2020 #2
Profiting off the presidency again sakabatou May 2020 #3
Are we sure it isn't for bedbug removal? CaptYossarian May 2020 #4
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #5
Post removed Post removed May 2020 #6
The 1st post is always the hardest mercuryblues May 2020 #7
Agreed! (Haaaaa!) NurseJackie May 2020 #10
Hate to think you made the trip for nothing, have some pizza! marble falls May 2020 #8
Too late lol Takket May 2020 #9
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Biggest issue I'd have is if he paid more than comparable accommodations, or somehow
Thu May 14, 2020, 05:48 PM
May 2020

increased the number of trips beyond what’s reasonably necessary. (Yeah, I know an argument can be made that trump should stay isolated under a rock.)

I’d prefer not to elect officials that might create these issues/conflicts. But voters, at least in 2016, apparently didn’t care. Hope that’s rectified in November.

keithbvadu2

(36,890 posts)
2. Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House'
Thu May 14, 2020, 06:44 PM
May 2020

Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House'

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/245884-trump-i-would-rarely-leave-the-white-house

Yes, I would live in the White House because it’s the appropriate thing to do,” he says.

Response to demmiblue (Original post)

mercuryblues

(14,537 posts)
7. The 1st post is always the hardest
Fri May 15, 2020, 07:57 AM
May 2020

Grab a pizza, a beer, and chill.



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