Donald Trump Jr.'s Mongolia Hunting Trip Cost Taxpayers $77,000

[packman]

Source: Huffington Post




Donald Trump Jr.’s trip last summer to Mongolia to kill an endangered sheep cost American taxpayers nearly $77,000 in Secret Service costs alone, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington reported Monday.

The Secret Service provided documents in March revealing that the agency’s cost for Trump’s trip to bag a rare argali sheep was more than $17,000. But after additional Freedom of Information Act requests, officials turned over other documents that disclosed an additional $60,000 in spending.

Trump Jr.’s eight-day trip was highly controversial, not only for the killing of the sheep, but because of his secretive meeting with Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga. Trump appeared to have hunted with a major Republican donor, ProPublica reported.

...The Trump family is taking 12 times as many Secret-Service protected trips as the Obama family did ― an average of about 1,000 more trips per year ― according to Treasury Department documents. The president and senior White House advisers Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner all remain invested in their private companies but travel at taxpayer expense.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-mongolia-hunting-trip-endangered-sheep_n_5edf126bc5b6948cbc5c971a

[Firestorm49]

1. I don't quite understand, strictly from a practical standpoint, why.....

we should have to pay for the dope’s non-official killing spree. The family supposedly (???) has enough money to hire private security, like for example, Eric Prince’s group of assassins, to protect his sorry ass from an attacking boar or something.

These are the kinds of things that make taxpayer’s blood boil, and rightly so. So then the question becomes, would Democrats make a move to stop this stupid waste of money, or is it in the same family as legal insider trading, which Obama vowed to stop but never did?

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. And, why is it our responsibility to pay these bills?

Jr. holds no office. He is a 40 year old man.

Jr. can pay for his own vacation.

[Scarsdale]

3. Scamming runs in the family.

Don Jr.'s girlfriend is paid $15,000 a MONTH (so is Eric's wife) by the super pac run by Brad Parscale. Parscale is living a lavish lifestyle on donor money, too. Mansions, yachts, expensive cars. Money is no object when it is someone else's money. Just like daddy, the tRump "boys" are living on a shoestring, unless it is other people's money, then it is no object. On the trip to the UK and Ireland, they ordered drinks for everyone in the bar, then left. The tavern owners were stuck with the bills. I wonder how much THAT trip cost taxpayers? As business people, the tRumps are all losers. This is why they will pull every dirty trick in the book to install daddy for another 4 years of high living. They treat the US treasury as their own personal piggy bank.

[Firestorm49]

4. Absolutely

[MFM008]

5. If he wanted sheep

He should have gone to a maggot rally.🐐🐐🐐

[ffr]

6. When this nightmare ends, can we throw his ass in a coral and let the sheep stomp his ass out?

Asking for a friend.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Fuck him

[TheFourthMind]

8. The Trumps are so white trash. Fucking parasites all. n/t