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26 Apr, 7 tweets, 3 min read
NEW: Through #FOIA requests, we obtained more evidence of taxpayer spending at Trump properties. Secret Service records show over $20,000 in expenses incurred during Eric Trump’s trips to Trump properties in Scotland, reports the @TheScotsman's @MartynMcL.
scotsman.com/news/politics/…
No one objects to the Trump family receiving Secret Service protection, but every time they charge their security detail to stay at a Trump property, thousands of taxpayer dollars line their pockets.
This is part of a long trend of Trump family members and government officials spending taxpayer money at properties the former president owns.
americanoversight.org/tracking-taxpa…
We uncovered that billionaire and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Woody Johnson paid £1,143 (about $1,500) for a single day of activities at Trump’s golf course in Scotland in July 2018.
scotsman.com/news/politics/…
DOJ officials spent over $5,700 at Trump’s Doral & Soho properties in 2018.
documentcloud.org/documents/7214…
DHS employees spent more than $5,500 at Trump properties, including a ~$1,600 dinner between “Anonymous” Miles Taylor and foreign government representatives at the Trump International Hotel.
And we obtained documents that shed light on the State Department’s approval of Trump World Tower leases to representatives of foreign governments from early 2017 through the summer of 2019.
americanoversight.org/document/state…

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