House Democrats ask Secret Service for details about its payments to Trump's company

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday asked the Secret Service to provide a full accounting of its payments to President Trump’s private company after The Washington Post revealed that the Secret Service had been charged as much as $650 per night for rooms at Trump clubs.

In a letter to the Secret Service, signed by Chair Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) and member Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), the committee asked for records of payments to Trump properties, and copies of contracts between the Secret Service and Trump clubs.

Last week, The Post reported that the Secret Service had been charged nearly $400 and as much as $650 per night for rooms at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, and charged $17,000 a month for a cottage that agents used at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey. President Trump still owns his companies. These payments show he has an unprecedented — and largely hidden — business relationship with his own government

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[democratisphere]

1. drumpf and family are constantly milking and bilking our system.

The cost accounting will likely be classified material and will be provided in a couple of weeks from never.

[Grokenstein]

2. Every damn day.

And, as usual, "if Obama had done anything even remotely like that..."

Turn it all blue and hold feet to the fire, and these scumbags can't cover it up anymore. Turn it all blue.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Another clear violation of the Constitution.

Article I, Section 1

The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.

(Bold added).

Passing the money through his properties does not launder it; it's still an emolument coming from the United States that is not the compensation provided for the President.