This week we got a set of incredibly damning documents from the Secret Service about the Trump family. This is what we learned:
Donald Trump used his Secret Service protection as a way to funnel money into his struggling business empire. He pocketed nearly $2 million in taxpayer money from the Secret Service. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
All those hundreds of visits to Trump properties while he was president—it was just having a foot in the door of his old job, it was grifting the Secret Service's budget into his pockets.
In one of the most egregious moments of Trump's presidency, he used a visit to victims of a mass shooting as a way to put tens of thousands of dollars from the Secret Service in his bank account. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
And it's not like his hotels had to charge the Secret Service. They chose to.
Of course, Eric Trump claimed they were only charging the Secret Service like $50 for housekeeping. We knew that was a lie. But we didn't know just how bad a lie it was until Monday.
Because when Eric Trump would staid at Trump Hotels, not only was he charging the Secret Service, he was charging them ABOVE the allowable government rate. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
Remember, the Trump family spent so much time at Trump properties that the Secret Service ran out of money. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
The patriotic thing to do would have been to comp the Secret Service agents' rooms. But Donald Trump has never cared about patriotism when there was a dollar on the line.
So what did we learn?
That to Donald Trump and the Trump family, the Secret Service wasn't just there for their protection, it was there for their profits.
That to Donald Trump and the Trump family, the Secret Service wasn't just there for their protection, it was there for their profits.
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