https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-ask-secret-service-for-details-about-its-payments-to-trumps-company/ar-BBZVGNV?li=BBnb7Kz
"Officials at President Trump’s company maintain that Trump and the firm do not profit when government officials stay at their properties.
“They stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” Eric Trump, who runs his father’s company day-to-day, said last year in an interview with Yahoo Finance. He estimated the charge per room was “50 bucks.”
The company also issued a statement to The Post saying: “We charge the U.S. Government simple cost and make zero profit.” It did not explain how it calculates those costs."
Rather unsurprisingly, a Trump and his company are lying:
"Last week, The Post reported that the Secret Service had been charged nearly $400 and as much as $650 per night for rooms at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, and charged $17,000 a month for a cottage that agents used at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey. President Trump still owns his companies. These payments show he has an unprecedented — and largely hidden — business relationship with his own government."
And the usual coverup:
"The Secret Service is legally required to send Congress a report every six months on its spending to protect presidential residences. But since the start of Trump’s term, the letter said, the Secret Service has provided only three of the required six reports.
And, even in those three, the lines for spending at Trump’s Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago clubs are both blank, the committee said. The letter asks the Secret Service to explain why."
Some background:
"7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them."
US Constitution Article II, sec. 1, clause 7.
@no1marauder saidConsti-what now? Sounds like the liberal fake news media.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-ask-secret-service-for-details-about-its-payments-to-trumps-company/ar-BBZVGNV?li=BBnb7Kz
"Officials at President Trump’s company maintain that Trump and the firm do not profit when government officials stay at their properties.
“They stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” Eric ...[text shortened]... ument from the United States[/b], or any of them."
US Constitution Article II, sec. 1, clause 7.
@no1marauder
And you can just HEAR the stampede of rePUTINicans rushing to charge Trump with fraud and the emoluments clause.