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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEric Trump's weekend business trip to Uruguay cost taxpayers $100k
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/eric-trumps-trip-to-uruguay-cost-taxpayers-97830-in-hotel-bills/2017/02/03/ababd64e-e95c-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.1333f3ffefd5When the president-elects son, Eric Trump, jetted to Uruguay in early January for a Trump Organization promotional trip, U.S. taxpayers were left footing a bill of nearly $100,000 in hotel rooms for Secret Service and embassy staff.
It was a high-profile jaunt out of the country for Eric, the fresh-faced executive of the Trump Organization who, like his father, pledged to keep the company separate from the presidency. Eric mingled with real estate brokers, dined at an open-air beachfront eatery and spoke to hundreds at an ultra exclusive Trump Tower Punta del Este evening party celebrating his visit.
The Uruguayan trip shows how the government is unavoidably entangled with the Trump company as a result of the presidents refusal to divest his ownership stake. In this case, government agencies are forced to pay to support business operations that ultimately help to enrich the president himself. Though the Trumps have pledged a division of business and government, they will nevertheless depend on the publicly funded protection granted to the first family as they travel the globe promoting their brand.
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Eric Trump's weekend business trip to Uruguay cost taxpayers $100k (Original Post)
Tanuki
Feb 2017
OP
And conservatives couldn't care less because Obama played golf a few times between 2008-2016
tenderfoot
Feb 2017
#1
Was he there on country business or business business? How do we know? There better
TrekLuver
Feb 2017
#4
tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)1. And conservatives couldn't care less because Obama played golf a few times between 2008-2016
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Cattledog
(5,915 posts)2. Every tRump weekend visit to Mar a Largo will cost $3 million paid by us.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)3. It's a Trump hotel
And they a charging us rack rate!!
This is bullshit.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)4. Was he there on country business or business business? How do we know? There better
be something going on and brewing somewhere behind the scenes to end this BLATANT conflict crap.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)5. Someone please explain to me...
...why the adult son of the president, who has no formal connection with the administration, is entitled to Secret Service protection?
I mean, did Dubya and Jeb get protection during Senior's term?
FSogol
(45,488 posts)6. K&R. n/t