09-17-2017, 12:48 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/taxpayers-billed-1092-for-an-officials-two-night-stay-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-club/2017/09/15/e3e5dfdc-97c6-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152_story.html?utm_term=.758484642829
One of the first clues over how Trump is profiting off of Mar a Lago came this week via a FOIA request from the Coast Guard. The invoice shows an unknown official stayed at the resort at the cost of $1,092 for two nights. The only clue is that it is labeled "National Security Council".
Trump spent 25 of his first 120 days in Mar a Lago (the club operates between November and May). While the White House claims that any guests of the President, such as the Prime Minister of Japan, will without any cost to tax payers, the lack of transparency in these FOIA requests makes it unknown if this is even true. The tax payers could have paid Trump hundreds of thousands to millions in a 4 month span for all of the necessary support staff to stay with him as he vacationed in Florida 7 of his first 13 weekends as President.
One of the first clues over how Trump is profiting off of Mar a Lago came this week via a FOIA request from the Coast Guard. The invoice shows an unknown official stayed at the resort at the cost of $1,092 for two nights. The only clue is that it is labeled "National Security Council".
Trump spent 25 of his first 120 days in Mar a Lago (the club operates between November and May). While the White House claims that any guests of the President, such as the Prime Minister of Japan, will without any cost to tax payers, the lack of transparency in these FOIA requests makes it unknown if this is even true. The tax payers could have paid Trump hundreds of thousands to millions in a 4 month span for all of the necessary support staff to stay with him as he vacationed in Florida 7 of his first 13 weekends as President.
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