Newly obtained documents show $157,000 in additional payments by the Secret Service to Trump properties

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/newly-obtained-documents-show-157000-in-additional-payments-by-the-secret-service-to-trump-properties/2020/03/05/7da2a610-5cbd-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

By
David A. Fahrenthold,
Joshua Partlow,
Jonathan O'Connell and
Carol D. Leonnig
March 5, 2020 at 3:36 p.m. EST

President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service.

Many of the new receipts were obtained by the watchdog group Public Citizen, which spent three years battling the Secret Service over a public-records request from January 2017.

When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.

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most recent presidents and vice presidents have allowed the Secret Service to use space on their properties free, according to their spokesmen or presidential library staff.

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Trump has spent 355 days — 30 percent of his presidency so far — visiting his own properties, according to a Washington Post tally.

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