A Top Mar-A-Lago Employee Is Quietly Doing Government Work For Trumps Foreign Trip

[riversedge]

Source: buzz feed





A Top Mar-A-Lago Employee Is Quietly Doing Government Work For Trump’s Foreign Trip

Heather Rinkus, the guest reception manager at Trump's "Winter White House” and wife of a twice-convicted felon, is in Italy with Trump’s logistics team and has been outfitted with a government-issued phone and email.


Posted on May 24, 2017, at 5:52 p.m.



A top Mar-a-Lago employee is also working for the government to help prepare for President Trump's visit to Taormina, Italy, for the G-7 Summit — an unconventional arrangement that further blurs the line between the president's business empire and the White House.

Heather Rinkus, the guest reception manager at Trump's "Winter White House," is working with the president's advance and logistics team, while Trump's exclusive club, Mar-a-Lago, closes for the summer. She has an official White House email and government-issued phone, two sources familiar with Rinkus’s trip told BuzzFeed News.

An administration source confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that Rinkus was officially listed as an advance associate for the Taormina leg of the trip and had government-issued blackberry and email.

She is married to a twice-convicted felon, Ari Rinkus, who is known to brag about his wife's access to the president as he trawls for investors and pursues government contracts on behalf of a foreign company, BuzzFeed News previously detailed.

Neither the White House nor the Trump Organization returned multiple requests for comment. They also did not answer a list of questions regarding Heather Rinkus’s role, including who is paying for her government work — taxpayers or Mar-a-Lago — or if Rinkus had resigned from Mar-a-Lago. (Asked about Heather Rinkus, a Mar-a-Lago employee, who answered the main phone line at the club, said Rinkus was traveling abroad for two to three weeks and would be back afterward.)

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Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/a-top-mar-a-lago-employee-is-quietly-doing-government-work?utm_term=.xhJ5gyLpm#.ibAobkj18

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I suspose this story is too mundane, given all the news today. damn


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[itsrobert]

1. Is this why Melania is upset?

who knows?

[politicaljunkie41910]

15. You know he's banging her and probably has been for years. Look at that photo.

That is not a recent picture of Trump. It's got to be at least 10 years old. Where's his gut in that photo. No wonder Melania is slapping his hand away. She knows the score.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. How long has he been using that thumb gesture in photos?

I see it a lot..what the hell is it supposed to mean?

[Hekate]

17. Gesture of (self) approval. He's Number One. He's "the Winnah and Stil Champeen."

:sheug: What else?

[DK504]

2. Are you FUCKING kidding me????

"Heather Rinkus, the guest reception manager at Trump's "Winter White House” and wife of a twice-convicted felon..."

A felon's wife is with the President's entourage and we are paying for her travel, phone, expenses and lodgings. She's on the payroll of Mar o lago is trollingfo Chump business on the governments dime. FUCK!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!

How much more do we have to tolerate before they all get thrown into jail???!?!?!?!?!

[riversedge]

8. I know--mind boggling.

[iluvtennis]

20. Just SMDH...GAH

[forgotmylogin]

3. Oh that's a professional look.

[xxqqqzme]

13. $10 says his hand is on her ass

[angrychair]

19. Given

Duh

[dchill]

4. K&R.

[Ilsa]

5. Oh. My.

I was thinking a short, filled-out chick, maybe with a raspy cigarette voice was doing this job and was married to 2x felon.

Looks to me like donald has a "special friend" travelling with him doing stuff the rest of the advance team won't do. I mean, what is it she does that his A-team can't handle?

I wonder what country Ari is doing business with?

[riversedge]

11. That is Some receptionist huh!!!

[Honeycombe8]

6. Oh, God. Every day it's something unethical or corrupt. Every single day.

Someone get this madman out of the White House. How can Congress stand for this?

[grantcart]

7. I wonder if this will trigger the automatic 20% tip

"For parties of 30 or more a gratuity of 20% will be automatically added?"

[dalton99a]

9. Kick.

[steve2470]

10. ...............

[steve2470]

12. I'm sure, besides the minor felon problem, she's EXTRAORDINARILY well qualified!

[rickford66]

14. Remember Travelgate ? A huge scandal. This ? No big thing.

[Hekate]

18. Corruption from top to bottom

[DeminPennswoods]

21. Govt email and phone?

Now every conversation/email she has using them is a public record.

[flying_wahini]

22. Did you see this at the bottom of the link? Wow. Just fuckin wow.

Heather Rinkus started working for Mar-a-Lago in 2015. She had previously worked for the Amway Hotel Corporation, which is owned by the family of Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, as a front desk supervisor and later as a nanny.

[jmowreader]

24. The threat to America posed by Amway can't be understated

[dembotoz]

23. and her security clearance is????????????