Donald Trump's Scottish resort charged Secret Service $1,300 for 'furniture removal' when he visited and added $29 'resort fee' to agents' bill at his Las Vegas hotel when guarding Mike Pence
The Trump Organization has been hitting the U.S. government with 'resort fees' for the agents who protect the president, his family, and the vice president – and even charged taxpayers for 'furniture removal' from a room used by agents.
The charges, including the $1,300 furniture fee at the president, came in the form of hotel bookings and other charges associated with the president's extensive travel to his own properties while serving as president.
This has included frequent visits to Mar-a-Lago, his Bedminster golf course, his Virginia golf course, and his luxury hotel in Washington – which he visited just Thursday for a campaign fundraiser.
President Donald Trump's properties have billed taxpayers for more than $900,000, according to a report, including for a '$1,300 'furniture removal fee'
The furniture charge came on a 2018 trip to Trump's Turnberry golf course in Scotland.
On a trip to Las Vegas, Trump's property decided to ding the Secret Service with $29 per room 'resort fees' when Vice President Mike Pence visited. They are the kind of extra charges that have become common in the industry, but in total ended up adding an addition $4,379 to the cost of the bill bill, which surpassed $20,000, the Washington Post reported in a story on the accumulated charges.
Government documents even showed Secret Service booking rooms at a Trump properties when the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., came to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in its Russia probe.
It resulted in a $3,300 for rooms over two days to protect him. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump run the Trump Organization along with an executive. Trump handed off control of the company but decided not to give up ownership.
The Secret Service incurred the $1,300 furniture free at the president's Turnberry course in Scotland
Taxpayers were on the hook for room fees for Secret Service agents each Tim Trump travelled to his Mar-a-Lago property
Trump son Eric Trump said the Trump Organization had gone to 'tremendous lengths to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.' He was with his father at a FEMA briefing Thursday
A trip to a Trump property in Las Vegas resulted in $29 'resort fees' footed by the government on top of room costs
A Secret Service agents stands as U.S. President Donald Trump and retired four-star Army general Jack Keane arrive for a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Keane in the East Room of the White House March 10, 2020 in Washington, DC
Eric Trump, who traveled with his father to a FEMA briefing on Hurricane Laura Thursday, issued a statement saying: 'Over the past three and a half years, we have gone to tremendous lengths to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, not due to any legal requirement, but because of the respect we have towards the office of the Presidency.'
'The Washington Post is blatantly interfering with the business relationships of the Trump Organization, and it must stop,' Deere wrote in his statement. 'Please be advised that we are building up a very large 'dossier' on the many false David Fahrenthold and others stories as they are a disgrace to journalism and the American people.'
He said in February in another report on the properties the company gave agents a discount rate.
'If he stays at one of his places, the government actually . . . saves a fortune because, if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they'd be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like 50 bucks.'
The White House attacked the Post for its reporting on the subject. It said the paepr 'is blatantly interfering with the business relationships of the Trump Organization, and it must stop,' said spokesman Judd Deere. 'Please be advised that we are building up a very large 'dossier' on the many false' stories on the topic, calling them a 'disgrace to journalism and the American people.'