Scam Artist Family Я Us
(Only one focus of Trump, Inc: More Fame
and Fortune)
The proof as they say is in the pudding
… and plenty of that is dished out here. And yes, the public does have a compelling need to know.
Re: Secret Service Growing Cost to
Protect the Entire Trump Family and a Few Others
Update (April 11, 2017) on the following from CNN –
Washington – Donald J. Trump's travel to his private club in Florida has cost
over an estimated $20 million in his first 80 days as president, putting the
president on pace in his first year of office to surpass former President
Barack Obama's spending on travel for his entire eight years.
The outsized spending on travel stands
in stark relief to Trump's calls for belt tightening across the federal
government and the fact that he regularly criticized Obama for costing the
American taxpayer money every time he took a trip.
Given variations in each trip,
estimating the security costs around a presidential trip is difficult. But a
2016 Government Accountability Office report about a four-day trip Obama took
to Florida in 2013 – one similar to Trump's trips – found the total cost to the
Secret Service and Coast Guard was $3.6 million.
To date, Trump has spent six
weekends – and a total of 21 days – at Mar-A-Lago, his private Palm Beach club.
The total estimated costs for those trips are around $21.6 million. Obama, by
contrast, spent just under $97 million on travel in his eight years as
president, according to documents reviewed by
Judicial Watch, a
conservative government watchdog. Trump's frequent weekend travel makes it
all but certain he will surpass Obama's spending in his first term, likely
within months.
The spending comes as Trump asks the
federal government to slash non-defense spending by $54 billion, including deep
cuts to the State Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
the Environmental Protection Agency and the wholesale elimination of other
federal programs. The proposed cuts, which are unlikely to be adopted in total,
will correspond with $54 billion in increases to defense spending.
ORIGINAL BACKGROUND ON THIS SUBJECT: The
Secret Service is down some 250 special agents and 350 administrative and
technical staff members compared to its peak at the beginning of the Obama
administration. Morale among employees has sunk to the lowest of any federal
agency, according to government surveys. And efforts to rebuild the work force
— which Rep. Chaffetz (R-UT) said was short by 1,000 positions — have improved
but the agency continues to struggle to keep up with attrition. Now protection
includes a rare first lady’s residence outside of DC, 4 adult children and active
former president and his family.
For example: Donald Trump
Jr. and Eric Trump, two adult sons who run the family business, have already
traveled to Uruguay, Vancouver, the Dominican Republic, and Dubai this year,
with their Secret Service details providing full protection and those were not government business trips,
either – why???
Related – dollars that make no sense from Business Insider here:
1. Three trips to Mar-a-Lago since Trump's
inauguration may have cost about $10 million, based on a government
report from October that analyzed White House travel, the Washington Post said. The expenses
include the cost of US Coast Guard patrol boats on the shoreline.
2. Palm Beach County
officials say they will request reimbursement of tens of thousands of dollars per day
from the White House for their deputies who provided security and logistical
support around the city.
3. Police officials estimate
that it would cost New York City $500,000 a day, or $183
million a year, to guard Trump Tower, where first lady Melania Trump and
son Barron Trump live.
4. Secret
Service and U.S. embassy employees paid
about $100,000
in hotel room bills during Eric Trump's trip to Uruguay, where he
promoted a Trump-branded building.
5. The Pentagon may have to secure rental space
in Trump Tower — needed for when the president returns to NYC — it could cost $1.5 million per year,
according to the building's website.
6. Secret Service paid $12,000 for tents, portable toilets, light
towers, and golf carts during Trump's
Super Bowl weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago.
I insert: Why, indeed. Those two are on their own, both wealthy by
most accounts travel for family business, and NOT official or any government
business. Why can’t they fund their own private/personal protection services?
Why should the taxpayers fit their bill? This is not an unreasonable nor
illogical question.
In addition to the top officials and those
immediate family that the Secret Service
is required by statute to protect, they also provide round-the-clock
protective details not only to the
spouses and children of Trump’s adult children, but also to several top
aides: Reince
Priebus, H. R. McMaster, and Kellyanne Conway, at the president’s request.
With so many of the new people being
protected living in New York, former Secret Service officials said the agency
might eventually set up a fully staffed branch of the presidential protection
division there, relocating agents from across the country.
For now, though, as it awaits a
potential move to Washington by Mrs. Trump and their 10-year old son, Barron, the
agency has elected instead to fly agents in from around the country, as it
would during a campaign or for a large security event. Doing so for a routine
non-election detail is less common and means the agency is paying for hotel
rooms, transportation and living expenses — at Manhattan prices.
The agency is also renting space
inside Trump Tower for offices and temporary sleeping quarters, two officials
said, though the details of the transaction have not been made public. Calculating the exact financial costs of the
new measures is difficult. The Secret Service is famously tight-lipped about
how it spends its money to avoid the politicization of presidential protection
and travel. And untold other costs are shared by states and municipalities that
provide law enforcement and other resources as needed.
In addition to the $27 million it has requested for protection of
Trump Tower and members of the first family in New York, first
reported by The Washington Post, the agency is assessing the need for millions
more for other costs, from new technology to staffing, according to the Office
of Management and Budget.
Example: New York City said it spent $300,000 a day protecting Trump Tower alone between Election Day and
Inauguration Day.
Protecting the building when Mr.
Trump is not there costs less, between $127,000 and $145,000 a day, according to
James P. O’Neill, the city’s police commissioner, but that does not account for
other costs to the city.
And in Palm Beach County, FL – Trump’s
Mar-a-Lago resort, the sheriff’s department says it is spending $60,000 a day in
overtime when the president is in
town.
The burden for funding naturally rests
on Congress to provide it increased resources for accelerated hiring,
technological improvements and other security expenses and that means
taxpayer-funded – since they are “we the people” and our duly-elected representatives,
right – right, but so what.
We have an arrogant family of arrogant rulers
in charge of the whole shebang as they say (W/H, Congress, and probably the courts,
too). Is our form of Democracy at stake and on very thin ice – yes, it is and yes, we are. Those in power say they work for us –
ha… seems they should adopt this office sign:
Stay tuned… change can come in 2018.
Hope you will be part of it.
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