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NEW: We tried to prove Eric Trump right, by checking his claim that he charges the Secret Service only "the cost of housekeeping" at Mar-a-Lago.
(He charged $650/night)
We asked experts: could Mar-a-Lago's rooms cost $650 to clean?
They said.......no.
washingtonpost.com/politics/house…
The actual cost to clean a hotel room ranges from $12 for a motel to maybe $75 for a very high-end property.
Biggest driver is labor costs. Which are relatively low at Mar-a-Lago: they use foreign guest workers, and pay starts at $11.13 an hour.
We've asked @realdonaldtrump's company to explain how it calculates "at cost" rates -- or identify any instances where it actually charged taxpayers "like 50 bucks" for a room, as Eric Trump said.
No answers yet. Will keep you posted.
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Just came across this (again) in FOIA files...White House staffers drank $1,000 worth of liquor at Mar-a-Lago, @realdonaldtrump’s club.
Reader, the taxpayers paid!
@realDonaldTrump As first reported by @propublica! (based on documents obtained by @propotp).
Amazes me every time that nobody in the WH or the Trump Org said, "You know what, maybe the people who drank the liquor should just pay for the liquor..."
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@realDonaldTrump @propublica @PropOTP We know about this b/c @realdonaldtrump's club sent the bill to the State Department, apparently on the logic that -- b/c Chinese president Xi had visited Mar-a-Lago that same weekend -- this was a diplomatic expense.
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We know @realdonaldtrump's biz bills taxpayers at high rates (like $650/room) to house Trump's Secret Service agents -- while telling the public the rooms are basically free.
But there's a lot we still don't know.
If you know something, I'm interested.
washingtonpost.com/politics/secre…
@realDonaldTrump Funny!
Here's a bill that @realdonaldtrump's Vancouver hotel sent to the govt in 2017, when Trump sons visited & Secret Service went along.
Govt released the bill -- but erased the room rates.
The logic: what Trump charges his own govt is a "trade secret," so we can't see it.
Hey! Somebody forgot to redact this line. Turns out the “Trade Secret” being hidden was that @realdonaldtrump’s company had charged the Secret Service $275/night to accompany Eric/Don Jr. to their own hotel’s grand opening. (Remember Eric had said the rates were “like $50”).
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President @realdonaldtrump's company has brought at least $471K in taxpayer $ to itself, by charging the Secret Service high rental rates.
You didn't know b/c:
-the transactions are missing from public databases
-Trump Org claimed its rates are super-low
washingtonpost.com/politics/secre…
There’s a WaPo reader who emails me after every story with the same one-line message: “Mr Fart and hold!!” Just those four words.
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