Irish funeral firm rents out four limousines to Trump for $1m

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Irish funeral firm rents out four limousines to Trump for $1m
Cars could be used for short jaunt to Doonbeg at a cost of $116,879 per mile – or not at all

Rory Carroll and Severin Carrell

Wed 5 Jun 2019 00.00 EDT
Last modified on Wed 5 Jun 2019 08.25 EDT


They are, by all accounts, wheels to die for. JP Ward & Sons, an Irish funeral services home, rents out its fleet of Mercedes E-Class limousines not just to mourners but to anyone who wants to travel in style.

A killer price tag has not deterred the latest customer: the White House. It is so keen to use the vehicles for Donald Trump’s two-day visit to Ireland that it is spending nearly $1m (£788,000) of US taxpayers’ money to rent them.

The Trump administration paid the family-owned firm based in Bray, County Wicklow, $935,033 in four tranches, according to USASpending.gov, an official portal that records federal government spending.

The state department did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation that the outlay was to rent four vehicles, which would work out at $233,748 per vehicle.

The presidential entourage’s hotel bills have also drawn scrutiny. State department documents show US taxpayers have spent $1,223,230 on VIP accommodation at the InterContinental hotel on Park Lane in Mayfair, London.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/irish-funeral-firm-rents-out-four-limousines-to-trump-for-1m?fbclid=IwAR0hhwuCFIPtL1gIIKWpNIXEaWss0QoPcJijIS8PT2g8QXDsk3qjZvMg2jA

[rurallib]

1. Wonder how Trump will get his kickback on this one?

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4. My thought also. He likely has a past corrupt relationship with someone from that family,

Maybe they all have memberships at his golf club.

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2. I was hoping this was from "The Onion" but it looks like it's real.

Talk about seeing some suckers coming—a million for limos? These grifters are just spending up our money like crazy. It would've been way cheaper to fly WH linos over, but they don't care. It's not their money.

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5. Someone mentioned a Trump kickback.

There is likely some way that a good part of that money is going to end up in Trump family pockets.

This is really an area where our democratic campaign investigations should spend time untangling connections between Trump spending tax money and a lot of that money coming into his pockets.

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3. Those grifters are just living it up.

Trump has spent more in golf alone that President Obama and his family spent for EVERYTHING over 8 years.

Next time some rightwing mouthbreather complains about President Obama, hit them with that information.