Biggest non-surprise since the late pleistocene
Quote:David Fahrenthold, Joshua Partlow, Jonathan O’Connell, and Carol Leonnig report that you are putting even more money into Donald Trump’s pocket than you knew:
Quote: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.
The payments show Trump has an unprecedented — and still partially hidden — business relationship with his own government. The full scope of that relationship is still unknown because the publicly available records are largely from 2017 and 2018, leaving huge gaps in the data.
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It's going to be some years before we get a really good grasp of the level of graft and criminality of this guy and his circle. As soon as he's out of office, he loses most of the devices he can use to obstruct investigations and he'll be far more vulnerable. Of course, he'll use all the strategies he's used in the past to avoid accountability but unless the system is totally fucked (possible) he'll likely be in jail, I'm thinking.
