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President Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms it uses while protecting Trump at his properties. The charges have been as high as $650 per night for a Mar-a-Lago Club hotel room, or $17,000 a month for a cottage at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster.
Who pays these bills? U.S. taxpayers. That means Trump has a business arrangement with his own government. But the details of that relationship remain largely hidden.
The only glimpses of this spending have come out via Secret Service records, released after public records requests. But these documents are often cryptic, giving few details.
This is how The Washington Post sought to unravel the mysteries in these documents, and to report the true extent of what Trump’s company has charged taxpayers.
Since Trump took office, he has visited his own properties on 342 days. Secret Service agents come with him. And Trump’s company charges them. Last November, in response to a public records request from the group Property of the People, the Secret Service released a list of 56 payments it had made to Trump’s companies. All were from 2017. But the list was cryptic. It didn’t say what the Secret Service had been charged for. In some cases, it didn’t even say which Trump property had been paid.
The Post tried to decode this list. One surprise: at least 20 of the payments to "Trump National Golf Club" — worth $63,700 — weren’t to a golf club at all. Other documents, already released, showed they were payments to Mar-a-Lago. The Post learned that many of them were hotel bills for $650 per night — a rate far higher than the usual limits on federal hotel spending. There is no legal limit on what the Secret Service may spend on hotel rooms while its agents are protecting the president.

In four other cases, the dollar amount was a giveaway: All included a tax of 6.875 percent, which was the sales tax in New Jersey in 2017. That pointed to Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, which is the only Trump property in New Jersey that he has visited as president.
But many of the payments on this list remain mysterious. If you have information about these charges — or any other instances where taxpayer funds were used to pay the president’s company — contact Post reporter David Fahrenthold at fahrenthold@washpost.com.
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These receipts have been redacted by the Secret Service, and they contain notations giving the reason for the redactions. The most common notation is "(b)(7)(e)," which refers to a section of the U.S. Code that allows the government to redact information about the "techniques and procedures" of law enforcement agencies.
July 31, 2017 | Bedminster, N.J.
A receipt from the files of the Secret Service showing the rental of a cottage at Trump’s Bedminster golf club for the month of July. The rate is $17,000 for the month, plus New Jersey’s 6.875 percent sales tax. Trump only spent seven days at the club that month, but the Secret Service still paid for days he wasn’t there. The handwriting in this document is original, written by the Secret Service. The Trump Organization says this rate is below what it could get on the open market, given that the the cottage has three bedrooms.

Sept. 4, 2017 | Bedminster, N.J.
A receipt from the files of the Secret Service showing the rental of a cottage at Trump’s Bedminster golf club for the month of August, plus four days of September. The rate is $17,000 per month, plus New Jersey’s 6.875 percent sales tax. The handwriting in this document is original, written by the Secret Service. The Trump Organization says this rate is below what it could get on the open market, given that the the cottage has three bedrooms.

Oct. 1, 2017 | Bedminster, N.J.
A receipt from the files of the Secret Service showing the rental of a cottage at Trump’s Bedminster golf club for the month of September, minus four days that had been paid for in a previous bill. The rate is $17,000 per month, plus New Jersey’s 6.875 percent sales tax. Trump spent 10 days at the club that month, but the Secret Service still paid for days he wasn’t there. The handwriting in this document is original, written by the Secret Service. The Trump Organization says this rate is below what it could get on the open market, given that the the cottage has three bedrooms.

February 2017 | Palm Beach, Fla.
Receipts released by the Secret Service showing charges paid to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in February — his first trip to Mar-a-Lago as president. Three of the receipts are in increments of $650, the amount that Trump’s company charged the Secret Service for each night in a Mar-a-Lago guest room. The other receipt is for $3,510; it is unclear what this charge is for. The Trump Organization has said that the current rate being charged for these rooms is "substantially lower," but did not say what it was.

February 2018 | Palm Beach, Fla.
Receipts released by the Secret Service showing charges paid to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in February. The receipts show Trump’s club charged $396.15 per night for guest rooms, less than the year before. One possible explanation: The 2018 receipts list the Secret Service as an "honorary member" of Mar-a-Lago, which may come with a discount.

September 2016 to January 2018 | Washington, D.C.
This document, released by the Department of Homeland Security, shows expenditures by the Secret Service’s Washington Field Office ("WFO") and Dignitary Protection Division ("DPD") at Trump’s hotel. The document does not give reasons for these expenditures. Some of them occur on days when Trump visited the hotel, but most do not.

January to June 2017 | Various
This document, released by the Secret Service after a public records request from the group Property of the People, contains listings of Secret Service credit card purchases at Trump properties. The documents give a sense of the scale of this spending: more than $250,000 in just Trump’s first five months in office. But it provides little clarity about why the money was spent and what rates were charged. This document was the spark for The Post’s reporting on this topic — showing how little was known about this business relationship between Trump and his own government.

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The purge continues:
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Fox News’ own research team has warned colleagues not to trust some of the network’s top commentators’ claims about Ukraine.
An internal Fox News research briefing book obtained by The Daily Beast openly questions Fox News contributor John Solomon’s credibility, accusing him of playing an “indispensable role” in a Ukrainian “disinformation campaign.”
QuoteThe document also accuses frequent Fox News guest Rudy Giuliani of amplifying disinformation, as part of an effort to oust former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and blasts Fox News guests Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova—both ardent Trump boosters—for “spreading disinformation.”
The 162-page document, entitled “Ukraine, Disinformation, & the Trump Administration,” was created by Fox News senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy, who produces research from what is known as the network’s Brain Room—a newsroom division of researchers who provide information, data, and topic guides for the network’s programming.
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People are the worst, example 4,790,341,286
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And she will do it.
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Just now, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:
*begging
With tears streaming, saying sir.
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Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Schumer should be over there discussing a potential switch of parties with Romney...
That would blast open the potential of the GOP losing the Senate this year.
btw, I know Romney isnt going to switch and Mcconnell isn't going to criticize or push Romney away. each GOP senator is too important for that.
Can't wait for his niece to disavow him as a relative.
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) will vote to convict President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial on the charge of abuse of power, becoming the only Republican to break with the president and his party.
"The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a “high crime and misdemeanor.”
Quote”Yes, he did," Romney said.
The move denies Trump the unanimous Republican support he had sought and is sure to invite an avalanche of attacks from the president and his allies.
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10 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
I'm not convinced this is the long term goal. I think they just don't give a shit.
I'm not convinced the GOP even has goals at this point. The party just maneuvers on the day-to-day whims of the President.
If Trump came out tomorrow fully supporting abortion rights (you know, an actual position he supported not all that long ago), you can damn sure bet that the rest of the GOP (and evangelicals) would fall in right behind.
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1 hour ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:
Has to be other factors that increased the rate. They all tout no increased rates no matter what and I discussed at length with Underwriters back in my insurance days.
I have to assume the random late night drives is what bumped it up, along with the 75 she was doing in a 65. Also, the agent/company was told when she was added on the policy that all she would be doing was driving to/from school. I figure they marked the policy some way, and the after hour drives were not during school time.
Either way, the rates have not increased in 2 years, she will be 20 in a month, and I figure that's a minor win as well.
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10 hours ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:
We decided to give one of those telematics devices a try to lower our car insurance rates. We’ve had no tickets or accidents so I just wanted to see if we could get it lower.
During a 90 day period they measure the times of day you drive(12-4 am is bad), rapid acceleration(not speed) and hard braking.
My wife says I drive crazy but to me I keep up with the flow of traffic in Dallas.
After one week she has 8 hard braking events. I have zero.When my daughter was a senior, I put one of those on her car. She has always been a responsible driver, but I wanted to see if it did, by chance, lower the rate. I was upfront with her; told her what this device did, and showed her that I (and the insurance company) could monitor her driving habits. I told her not to think about it, and just drive like she had been driving all along. I also made the ex aware of this, given that A) I paid for the car and B) I alone was paying the insurance and registration on the car, along with the maintenance. To my surprise, the ex was receptive of the idea as well; I figured she would have screamed something about "spying on our child" to me.
In the 90 day period, she had zero hard braking attempts. She may have had 4 or 5 rapid acceleration events. It was pretty boring; I'd say roughly 3/4 of her driving was 1 mile to school, and then home each day. There was some "late" night driving, when coming home from a game or other school event (latest around midnight). Her longest trip in the car during the time was around 25 miles; top speed was 75 or so. Really, really boring driving history, to be honest, for which I'm glad.
Rates went up by around $150/6 months after the experiment.
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In order to trade for Capela, the Celtics would have to match $14.9M in salary. That means Boston would have to send out approximately $10 million in salary. That makes it a tough match for the Celtics without trading at least one or two key rotation players like Daniel Theis ($5M) or Enes Kanter ($4.8M). Boston could also go the multiple players for one route and attempt to cobble together enough salary with players on smaller deals like Vincent Poirier ($2.5M), Romeo Langford ($3.4M) and several other players making near the minimum.
Boston and Houston could also involve other teams in the trade, but that wouldn’t remove the Celtics need to send out at least $10 million in salary to acquire Capela.
The Rockets' primary goal seems to be to collect assets in the form of draft picks to be used in subsequent deals according to Wojnarowski
QuoteThe Celtics have two extra first round picks coming their way from the Memphis Grizzlies (top-6 protected this season, unprotected in 2021) and the Milwaukee Bucks (top-7 protected this season, unprotected in 2021). Boston also owns all of their own future first round picks.
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Let me guess.
There will be a moment of silence in the Senate, or some proclamation of some kind voted on.
Team R in the house will introduce something, but it will get shot down. Then, the President will tweet that the House is being too mean to a patriotic American who has done "a lot" for this country.
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Rumor that Battista's isn't long for this world:
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Donald Trump 2020
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I'm so happy these stupid fuckers are getting played like this: