Eric Trump Billed Taxpayers $80K for Two-Day Business Trip

[Mike M (the other one)]

(03-06-2020, 10:00 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: It's only lodging and it's not complete. The Secret Service has failed to list many of these expenditures in the proper public database and have misled by listing things incorrectly, such as claiming payments made to Mar a Lago were made to the Trump National Golf Club outside DC. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-2020-how-much-has-the-government-spent-at-trumps-properties-it-wont-say

When Trump first became president, the State Dept tried to work out a deal with the Trump organization for a flat fee for all government lodging at Mar a Lago during his first term. The Trump organization refused that offer and charged them the maximum cost that federal rules would allow for a room per night. 

Mar a Lago has been invoicing expenses separately avoid federal rules.

Meanwhile the tax payers are paying for things like $1000 tabs for senior staff to get drunk in a room together at Mar a Lago.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-taxpayers-covered-liquor-bill-for-trump-staffers-and-more-mar-a-lago

Oh I agree plenty of room for abuse, but can't pin it all on Trump if the SS is not filling out the paperwork correctly, maybe they are hiding those pesky hooker costs that they can't get receipts for.

(03-06-2020, 10:07 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: This also isn't hard. You can support someone while also criticizing how they benefit from the government. Biden charged the Secret Service $2k a month to rent a cottage on his Delaware property. While it was market value, he should have just allowed them to stay there for free.

No issues with this, and I do not like everything that Trump does, and will not defend those things that I don't like, but in this case, I just want to get the details so that we can figure out if the criticism is deserved or not. So far I don't see to much in what we are currently talking about in regards to Trump abusing it, I see it more as the SS not filling out the forms with details, and lumping too much into one expense. That's not on Trump, that's on the SS agents involved.

 I am going to look into what JS posted and start rummaging around there.