A REMINDER...ONE of Trump's 3-day golf weekends costs EIGHT times his annual salary that he "donates"

[tanyev]

1. And a big chunk of that is getting paid TO HIM.

U.S. taxpayers are being overcharged for every meal, beverage and bedbug-infested room the Secret Service needs while they are protecting him. WE are paying Donald Trump to golf at his own properties. 😒

The Trump Organization appears to have overcharged the Secret Service for stays at Trump-owned properties by agents protecting the then-president. The charges exceeded the government's approved rate, according to the House Oversight Committee, which says Secret Service records show payments totaling over $1.4 million.

"The exorbitant rates charged to the Secret Service and agents' frequent stays at Trump-owned properties raise significant concerns about the former President's self-dealing and may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump's struggling businesses," Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney wrote in a letter to Kimberly Cheatle, the service's director.

According to the documents, the Secret Service was charged as much as $1,185 per room per night, nearly five times the government rate, which is set by the General Services Administration.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129491352/trump-hotels-overcharged-secret-service-agents