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onecaliberal

(32,776 posts) Sat Feb 8, 2020, 03:54 PM Feb 2020

Secret Service paid as much as $650. A night to stay at trump properties.

Those charges, compiled here for the first time, show that Trump has an unprecedented — and largely hidden — business relationship with his own government. When Trump visits his clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, N.J., the service needs space to post guards and store equipment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-has-paid-rates-as-high-as-650-a-night-for-rooms-at-trumps-properties/2020/02/06/7f27a7c6-3ec5-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html

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Tax payers being charged millions for Secret Service to travel with trump. (Original Post) onecaliberal Feb 2020 OP

(18,618 posts)

1. By law (gagme) that thing must be protected. BUT...he and his cabal are gouging us. Over and

Sat Feb 8, 2020, 05:24 PM

Feb 2020

over again. Fuck him.

(3,473 posts)

2. I saw another article where he charged his campaign. $1.7 million just in the last quarter

Sat Feb 8, 2020, 05:31 PM

Feb 2020

for using property he owns. Yet there are morons who say/think he isn't making money off the presidency.