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Donald Trump Jr.'s Mongolia Hunting Trip Cost Taxpayers $77,000
06/09/2020 07:00 am ET Updated 5 hours ago
The presidents son apparently hunted with a major GOP donor and bagged a rare sheep.
By Mary Papenfuss
onald Trump Jr.s trip last summer to Mongolia to kill an endangered sheep cost American taxpayers nearly $77,000 in Secret Service costs alone, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington reported Monday.
The Secret Service provided documents in March revealing that the agencys cost for Trumps trip to bag a rare argali sheep was more than $17,000. But after additional Freedom of Information Act requests, officials turned over other documents that disclosed an additional $60,000 in spending.
Trump Jr.s eight-day trip was highly controversial, not only for the killing of the sheep, but because of his secretive meeting with Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga. Trump appeared to have hunted with a major Republican donor, ProPublica reported.
The trip was arranged through a tourism company owned by a politically connected member of the Mongolian presidents party, according to the watchdog group. The company helped Trump obtain a special permit to hunt the argali after he killed the animal.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-mongolia-hunting-trip-endangered-sheep_n_5edf126bc5b6948cbc5c971a
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Donald Trump Jr.'s Mongolia Hunting Trip Cost Taxpayers $77,000 (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jun 2020
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Doodley
(9,124 posts)1. 77K to shoot a sheep? I heard the cost of lamb had gone up, but isn't that a little ridiculous?
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)2. 🤬🤬🤬
Such bullshit...and why does one need a woodland camo hoodie while hunting on horseback for an endangered sheep? He looks like a total tool
3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)3. He doesn't just...
...look like a total tool, he IS a total tool.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)4. Lol, well yeah that too