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President Trump has been using the Secret Service as an excuse to funnel taxpayer money to the properties he owns and profits from. And he keeps lying about it.
He tried to host the G-7 at his Doral resort, saying the Secret Service wanted him to.

We got records from the Secret Service that showed he was lying, and they actually had serious concerns:
citizensforethics.org/secret-service…
Then Trump said the Secret Service made him use an extra million taxpayer dollars to stay at his Las Vegas hotel during a four-night trip to the West Cost.

We asked for receipts...they couldn’t find any:
citizensforethics.org/trump-secret-s…
Finally, there’s the matter of Trump family travel.

Obama’s family took 133 protected trips per year, while the Trump family average is 1,625.

All this travel (often to Trump businesses) is taking a serious toll on the budget:
citizensforethics.org/trump-family-t…
One tally of the spending at Trump properties put the bill at a whopping $970,000.

If Trump wants to support the Secret Service, his company should pay it back for the promotional appearances at his businesses.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
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Mike Pompeo racked up quite the slate of scandals this week. It’s getting hard to keep track, so we made a list.

The bottom line is: we need an impartial IG at the State Dept. to investigate all of this, but Trump just fired him. (We’re investigating)
citizensforethics.org/foia/trump-fir…
After Trump fired the State Department IG on Friday night, Pompeo said he asked Trump to fire him for “undermining” the department. Actually, the IG was finishing legitimate investigations into Pompeo’s wrongdoing.

Now we know there was a *lot* to investigate...
The first scandal to break was that Pompeo allegedly made a staffer run personal errands, including walking his dog and picking up his dry cleaning.

Maybe this seems like small potatoes, but it’s a slippery slope:
nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/…
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It’s obvious that Trump’s war on accountability is escalating. Don’t let him win the war by forgetting the last scandal, or forgetting all the things he is hiding from the people. Here’s a list:

(brace yourself)
citizensforethics.org/trump-war-acco…
2016- Trump refuses to release his tax returns

2017- Trump refuses to divest, makes senior White House staff sign non-disclosure agreements, stops releasing White House visitor logs, fires James Comey for insufficient loyalty
Still, 2017- White House says it won’t answer oversight requests, Manafort and Gates get indicted (Trump says Clinton should be investigated instead)
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So, Jared Kushner had quite a week...

In case you had trouble keeping up with all of Jared’s problematic behavior, we made a list. It’s long. Some of the things he did are apparently illegal, some just look really bad:
We’ll start with the fact that his “shadow” task force uses private email accounts, apparently violating both the Presidential Records Act and FACA.

We filed a complaint:
citizensforethics.org/press-release/…
But apparently running the shadow task force has not kept him fully informed. Last night he told Americans that the national stockpile of emergency supplies is “our” stockpile and not for states.

What does that even mean?
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
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