Jordan Libowitz: We already knew Trump's Secret Service grift was bad. We just didn't know how bad. - NBCNewsTHINK
when Trump’s family went to Washington, D.C., they had the Secret Service protect them at Trump International Hotel, forcing agents and supervisors to seek permission from the office of the agency’s chief financial officer to pay above the legal government rate for lodging. This even though there was no security reason requiring Team Trump to stay at that specific hotel.
But one thing was missing from our records: the room rates. In the documents turned over to us, the government redacted the General Services Administration's government rate for the room and what the hotel wished to charge the Secret Service. Thanks to this week’s release by the House Oversight and Reform Committee, we have those forms.
for Donald Trump Jr.’s visit. When Eric Trump visited Washington a few months earlier, the nightly government rate was supposed to be capped at $242 per night; the Trump hotel billed the Secret Service $1,160.Of course, presidents and their families need to be protected by the Secret Service — protection that continues even after a president has left office. But we’ve never seen a commander-in-chief and his family repeatedly use the Secret Service to line their pockets in this way.
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