Donald Trump Gave 6 Months Extra Secret Service Protection to His Kids
By: Alia Shoaib (Business Insider)
meh, I get it, it's natural for some to want to take a broom or shovel to vermin...
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Former president Donald Trump with his family. Fred Watkins/Getty Images
- Donald Trump gave his adult children and three officials six months extra Secret Service protection.
- The extra security cost taxpayers $1.7 million, The Washington Post reported.
- It included payments to Trump's own companies, as agents stayed at Trump properties to protect his children.
Donald Trump cost taxpayers $1.7 million by providing his adult children and three officials with six months of Secret Service protection after he left office, according to a Washington Post analysis of new spending documents.
Before leaving office, Trump triggered a highly unusual order, the paper said, giving extra protection to his four adult children, Donald Trump Jr., 43, Ivanka, 39, and Eric, 37, and Tiffany, 27.
Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, was also granted protection, as was Eric's wife, Lara.
Trump's protection order also included three officials; former Secretary to the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former national security adviser Robert C. O'Brien.
Under law, the Secret Service provides protection for former presidents and spouses for life, as well as their children until they turn 16.
In recent years, former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton have extended it to include college-aged children for a short time after leaving office, The Washington Post said.
However, Trump ordered the Secret Service to devote time and resources to protecting seven wealthy adults, the paper said.
During the six months, the Secret Service spent around $347,000 on airfare, hotels, and rental cars protecting Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, according to the records seen by The Washington Post.
It included vacations to Hawaii, Utah ski county, a Wyoming ranch, and Kiawah Island in South Carolina, the paper said.
Secret Service agents also spent $9,000 on hotel rooms accompanying Kushner on a trip to the United Arab Emirates in May, citing federal spending data posted online.
According to The Daily Beast, Kushner chose to stay at the five-star Ritz Carlton in Abu Dhabi.
Data for the cost of flights was not reported.
The cost of protecting Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. was $241,000 and $213,000, respectively. The Washington Post said the brothers primarily traveled between New York and South Florida, with occasional trips elsewhere.
Tiffany Trump was the cheapest to protect, with partial records showing that the Secret Service spent $56,000 while protecting her, the paper reported.
Several of the payments were made to Trump's own company. Agents were billed for the rooms they used while protecting his children, the paper reported.
Since leaving office, the former president has lived full-time at his properties and has also charged the Secret Service for rooms, the paper said.
Jordan Libowitz, a spokesman for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, told The Washington Post that the charges, although small, indicated a moral choice for the Trump family.
"The patriotic thing would obviously be not charging the government to stay at your properties and not profiting or profiteering off the government," Libowitz told the paper
Of the three officials included in the protection order, Mnuchin was the most expensive to guard, costing the Secret Service $479,000.
This included accompanying Mnuchin on three trips to the Middle East and staying at luxurious hotels, the paper reported. Mnuchin is a multimillionaire in his own right, with an estimated $400 million fortune, according to Forbes.
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I swear that Donald Trump is like the drunk uncle who ruins every photo by doing something stupid. Stupid smile, stupid thumbs up.
... maga hat, big ass trump flag flying from the back of his truck...
And WTF with Steve Mnuchin? I don't think that fellow grifters should qualify for taxpayer-funded protection.
trump uses the secret service to keep tabs on mnuchin, so when he's away, trump can bang his wife.
Louise? Talk about a nasty social-climbing upstart! I bet she's on more hit lists than her husband is.
if he has $400 million, she's not going anywhere until her divorce case is open/shut at 60/40+.
I entered louise linton mnuchin into a bing search and then clicked on fur pictures, expecting something else. sorry.
Well, in her defense, she has to look at Steve Mnuchin’s face every day. That’s gotta at least be worth a couple million in pain and suffering.
you don't come into that much money without some personal sacrifices being made...
The grifter strikes again.
the entire family is a criminal enterprise.
Totally, not surprised.
a lot easier than signing a check...
So sick of reading about how these poor people need protection, yet they are the ones in charge and somehow all of them seem to have a shitton of money.
the mantra of the wealthy. why pay for anything when you can get the taxpayers to foot the bill with a pen stroke.
Supposedly Ivanka and Jarrod made over $120 million while daddy was in office. Let them pay for their own fucking security.
I doubt their protection will help if they hit prison.
[ deleted ] wouldn't you if it was your kids?
Bush did it for his daughters; as did Clinton for his daughter.
So... You're good with paying for this then?
I don't want to pay for their protection.... my taxes should go where I want them like conservatives choosing not to cover the safety net or universal insurance.
I thought they were rich enough to pay for their own shit - pull themselves up by their bootstraps.