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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 08:01 AM Oct 2021

Mar-a-Lago Gets $600,000 Security Upgrade on Taxpayers' Dime

Hat tip, Joe.My.God.


Mar-a-Lago Gets $600,000 Security Upgrade on Taxpayers’ Dime

THAT’S RICH

Justin Rohrlich
Reporter
Published Oct. 15, 2021 4:18PM ET

For a private club whose owner boasts the property offers the best of everything, Mar-a-Lago’s security systems apparently aren’t quite up to par. A $580,600 Secret Service contract awarded in August to a construction contractor based in Arkansas states its purpose is “TO PROVIDE MAR-A-LAGO WITH A PHYSICAL SECURITY BUILD-OUT UPGRADE,” according to federal procurement records. The contract goes through July 28, 2022, and was awarded without a competitive bidding process; the cost, naturally, will be borne by U.S. taxpayers.

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Mar-a-Lago Gets $600,000 Security Upgrade on Taxpayers' Dime (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 OP
He's going to grift us until his last, dying breath. Vinca Oct 2021 #1
Republican casino hustler hustles US taxpayers yet again Champp Oct 2021 #2
I had a guy tell me Biden's gonna make us go samplegirl Oct 2021 #3
SOP... seriously, this isn't anything to to complain about MissMillie Oct 2021 #4
I don't mind if it includes bars on the windows nuxvomica Oct 2021 #5
lets hope this is to keep trump** IN samnsara Oct 2021 #6
The taker keeps on taking. sarcasmo Oct 2021 #7
The Grift Will Never Die. Can someone please write a folk song about that? Hekate Oct 2021 #8

Champp

(2,114 posts)
2. Republican casino hustler hustles US taxpayers yet again
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 08:21 AM
Oct 2021

How many millions did we have to pay for this ungrateful Republican "bilionaire" to play gourmet golf at our expense?

MissMillie

(38,456 posts)
4. SOP... seriously, this isn't anything to to complain about
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 08:43 AM
Oct 2021

I'm sure it's done for every former occupant of the White House.

nuxvomica

(12,365 posts)
5. I don't mind if it includes bars on the windows
Sat Oct 16, 2021, 08:47 AM
Oct 2021

I think the former president should have maximum security around him.

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