Secret Service just released new docs showing Trump's first trip to Bedminster as POTUS in 2017 -- an

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David Fahrenthold
@Fahrenthold
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Mar 1, 2021
Secret Service just released new docs showing Trump’s first trip to Bedminster as POTUS in 2017 — and the spigot of taxpayer money it opened for his business.

First trip: 4 days, Trump Org charged the Secret Service $5,343 for a cottage near Trump.
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David Fahrenthold
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After that, the Secret Service started renting the cottage every night, just to be ready. Trump Org charged $566.64 per night, every night.

First bill: $9,689.60.

That was the start. Over Trump’s presidency, Trump charged taxpayers more than $392,000 for rooms at Bedminster.
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[madaboutharry]

1. "The Big Grift"

Sounds like the name of a movie.

[Baked Potato]

2. The Grift by which all others will be measured.

[magicarpet]

3. The blueprint for future ReThug Fascist to follow. This sets a precedence for normalcy to,....

.... grift to your heart's content.

[Baked Potato]

19. Yes it does.

[LuckyLib]

4. The invoice is pitifully amateur. This is a professional

golf club? Please.

[msfiddlestix]

5. I didn't know it was standard procedure for Secret Service to have to pay for lodgings while serving

a President or any other public office official.

If it isn't standard procedure, then it seems to me, Trumps retirement salary can be levied/garnished for these charges paid for by taxpayers and any other expenses he put on taxpayers which benefited him personally or his businesses. However the legal terminology is stated.

[msfiddlestix]

6. I didn't know it was standard procedure for Secret Service to have to pay for lodgings while serving

a President or any other public office official.

If it isn't standard procedure, then it seems to me, Trumps retirement salary can be levied/garnished for these charges paid for by taxpayers and any other expenses he put on taxpayers which benefited him personally or his businesses. However the legal terminology is stated.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Bill of Rights--3rd Amendment...

Government cannot quarter soldiers in private homes without restitution.

I imagine this would be construed to cover SS agents as well.

[msfiddlestix]

21. I'm not sure how this applies, does it mean Taxpayers are on the hook?

Or does it mean legally we are on the hook to enrich the President (or any other elected official requiring Secret Service) .

I'm thinking about how the 'quarters' in question is actually owned by the President in this case. Thereby was financially beneficial to that mobster. arrggh. Seems like there ought to be a law.

[Wounded Bear]

22. Technically, there is...the emoluments clause...

It never gets enforced, though, so it continues to happen.

[msfiddlestix]

24. Emoluments Clause being ignored, never enforced has to change

among other clauses that are ignored, never enforced.

And other amendments need to be strengthened.

If the Trump administration didn't teach Congress and the country this much, what in the hell will?

[Wounded Bear]

25. Too many hogs at the trough, from both sides unfortunately...

Politicians get rich, or at least most of them do. Very few of them like Uncle Joe.

[kskiska]

8. Aren't they also charged for golf cart rentals?

[DENVERPOPS]

17. One time

the SS reserved the entire fleet of golf carts for a month at one of his local golf courses, even though it was for some other visitor and Trump didn't even go there.

The Trump Golf Course charged the SS a phenominal amount of money....way over the normal rates......

At Mar a Lago the Secret Service would rent rooms while they were down there, maybe once or twice a month for a few days.
Trump changed the rental policy on the rooms, to a ludicously high flat fee for an entire monthly price. That also made it very easy for people, especially foreigners, to Launder money to him by renting rooms for a month or more and never even occupying them......

The longer he was in office and got away with his corrupt schemes, the braver and more daring he got. I believe we will never know the amount Ivanka and Jared grifted during the beginnings of the Covid nightmare, when PPE and Respirators were being paid for at ludicrous prices and never delivered, and countless other schemes of theirs......

[Takket]

9. We should really require presidents to put their businesses in a blind trust...

and prevent them from patronizing their own businesses while in office.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Twitter replies:

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[UpInArms]

11. DFG!

After that, the Secret Service started renting the cottage every night, just to be ready. Trump Org charged $566.64 per night, every night.

First bill: $9,689.60.

That was the start. Over Trump’s presidency, Trump charged taxpayers more than $392,000 for rooms at Bedminster.

When I can’t think I can despise him more ....

[Lord Ludd]

12. E. Mol. U. Ments. /nt

[ancianita]

15. SCOTUS kicked that can down the road, I believe. Not sure if it can be revived.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/justices-vacate-rulings-on-trump-and-emoluments/

[monkeyman1]

13. AND THE SCAM JUST KEEP'S GETTING BETTER BY THE DAY !

[gipper66]

14. Biden did the same as well

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/joe-biden-collecting-rent-secret-194812366.html

Biden rented a cottage to the secret service from 2011 to 2017. Total cost $176,000. Keep the outrage for the true harm done by Dump.

[beaglelover]

16. $2K a month sounds very reasonable. YMMV.

[gipper66]

18. I agree

I just wanted to point out it has been done before. If it is not market rate, they should take the money back.

[niyad]

20. We generally don't accept the washington times (the source of that blog) as a news source.

[Ilsa]

23. Compare the costs:

$2,000 for a month vs almost $1,000 per day. $2,000 vs $30,000? The Bidens were recovering costs and utilities. Trump was just ripping off the public.

[Pachamama]

26. You are making a false comparison

The charges of $2200 monthly for a cottage that could house multiple people and was the exact rent that the previous tenant paid and the local market rate sounds like a fair price. What Trump Org did in billing nightly, per room, is not the same thing and were jacked up prices to the usual rate.

[bronxiteforever]

28. +100 Absolutely

[bronxiteforever]

27. Kick and recommend for visibility

[live love laugh]

29. Where's Joe Manchin on this? 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[secondwind]

30. Those days are over, Big Fella. I hear you are hurting financially.....

couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Good riddance!!!