Trump charged Secret Service nearly $10,200 in May for agents' rooms

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Washington Post

Former president Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., charged the Secret Service nearly $10,200 for guest rooms used by his protective detail during Trump’s first month at the club this summer, newly released spending records show.

The records — released by the Secret Service in response to a public-records request — show that the ex-president has continued a habit he began in the first days of his presidency: charging rent to the agency that protects his life.

Since Trump left office in January, U.S. taxpayers have paid Trump’s businesses more than $50,000 for rooms used by Secret Service agents, records show.

The Washington Post reported previously that Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club — where he lived from January, when he left the White House, to early May — charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 so that agents could use a room near Trump.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-secret-service-charges/2021/07/07/7f88043a-df2e-11eb-b507-697762d090dd_story.html

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And the grift continues.

[PatSeg]

1. And of course, no one is surprised

It is what we expect of the con man.

[aeromanKC]

2. Tax payers will save money at this rate once Trump is locked up.

And we could even kick in some extra Ramen soups to his Commissary account.

[LifeLongDemocratic]

3. Just die already

He just needs to die already. Enough is enough. He is an unhealthy 70 something. Why is he still breathing? I guess satan isn't ready for him yet.

[Wuddles440]

5. I fear that....

Satan may not even want him believing that he'll be upstaged and eventually replaced by the Orange Anus.

[LifeLongDemocratic]

6. He is satan

Or perhaps he is satan.

[TexasTowelie]

4. As much as I despised TFG,

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the fact is that the Secret Service should pay fair market price for their rooms. I'm willing to overlook the fact that TFG is profiting from this bizarre situation because if the Secret Service fails to do its job then TFG will become a martyr.

[Hekate]

21. The problem is, TFG has been charging his detail the rack rate for their accommodations from Day 1

When you or I go looking for a hotel room we never pay rack rate, i.e. the advertised rate. There is always, always a discount to be had. For groups and for regularly recurring visits, you bet there is a discount to be had for rooms and meals.

But not the Big Grifter. The people who protect his ass day and night have to pay him without mercy and be treated like the busboys.

[TexasTowelie]

23. I have no doubt that TFG will take advantage of allowances to maximize his profits

so I understand your point about offering discounts. This is another example that shows what may be legal is not necessarily what is ethical.

[Marrah_Goodman]

7. Nothing but a grifter

[Botany]

11. Grifters gotta grift

Park a trailer on his golf courses and let the agents stay there .... BTW if Trump really was a billionaire
he wouldn't need to charge the S.S. for room and board.

[KS Toronado]

8. Why in the hell didn't the Secret Service buy a motor home?

or make other arrangements when they became aware of Qrump's grifting?
Would he start charging for parking?

[former9thward]

15. They don't have motor homes for other presidents.

They have operational needs which require rooms.

[KS Toronado]

18. Not for the President........

but for the Secret Service to sleep in and use all their "Mission Impossible" gadgets.

[Jedi Guy]

9. I hope the SS agents had their shots before staying in those rooms. N/T

[jmowreader]

10. And the strange thing is...

We had two other Republican presidents in recent years who spent a shit ton of time at their own properties, Reagan and Bush 43. Neither of them charged the Secret Service rent.

Congress needs to write a law requiring presidents and former presidents to comp rooms in their own properties to the Secret Service, and provide them food at cost if the president owns food service facilities. This wouldn’t claw back the money Trump already stole from the government, but it would stop the steal that’s currently going on.

[Marrah_Goodman]

12. Had any president before trump ever charged the SS rent????

[NYC Liberal]

22. Biden charged rent when he was VP

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/31/biden-charging-secret-service-cottage-rental

However, they were occupying a cottage that the Bidens had previously been renting to tenants. However, the SS paid the same market-rate rent as the tenants had been. TFG would doubtless have jacked it up.

[former9thward]

16. We don't know the financial arrangements with other presidents.

What we do know is that the SS has made tens of thousands of dollars in improvements at other president's properties for their needs. Those improvement stay after the need for the SS is gone. It goes with the territory.

[jmowreader]

20. Yup...but that money didn't go into the president's pocket the way it does with Trump

[Historic NY]

13. At this rate they will be in tents,

once Trump blows through his allotment, he will have to pay.

[former9thward]

17. This comes from the SS budget.

It does not come from the expense allotment given to former presidents.

[Historic NY]

27. He isn't using the account set-up for ex-presidents...

if he is direct billing. There will come a time that they (SS) demand a permanent place to have their facilities.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

14. Doesn't he get Secret Sevice protection untill he dies?

We might as well put the agents up in a Motel 6 and put the balance directly in T*****'s pockets and eliminate the middleman. The grift continues. . .

[3catwoman3]

19. The list of shitty things TFG has done (and it's so long...

...as to be TNTC - too numerous too count), this particularly bugs the hell out of me. How dare he charge the Secret Service when they are tasked with being willing to effing DIE to protect his sorry, unworthy ass.

If I had been in the Secret Service when Trump was sworn in, I would have had to quit. I wouldn't stand out in the rain for that POS, let alone risk my life.

[question everything]

24. May? What about February thru April?

[Warpy]

25. That's abut $329/day

which is most likely over the going rate for rooms in that joint.

[Initech]

26. Utterly despicable.

[Rebl2]

28. They should

not pay. He doesn’t pay his debts, why should they pay him!

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

34. Sounds great to me!

And if Trump doesn't like it, tell him too fucking bad.

[LudwigPastorius]

29. Fuck that fucking fat, fascist parasite.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

30. Hope his Secret Service detail is bugging everything he says and does,

and relaying it all to appropriate law enforcement authorities.

Hope he can't even breathe without it being recorded.

[appalachiablue]

31. Hundreds of Secret Service agents caught Covid

while serving the Trump Team as well.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/559626-nearly-900-secret-service-agents-tested-positive-for-covid-19

[oldsoftie]

32. Because its all about the money, baby!

Thats ALL it is now. And why he wont run in '24, but let everyone continue to THINK he is

[BigmanPigman]

33. Is his hotel in DC still being used as his grifting cash cow?