Trump charged "exorbitant" amounts to secret service agents to sleep in his hotels

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The Trump Organization, the former US president's business group, charged up to

to Secret Service agents staying in his hotels while they worked to protect the president and his family, according to documents released Monday by the Trump Organization.

Oversight Committee of the US House of Representatives.

In the invoices, revealed after the express request of the newspaper 'The Washington Post', payments of more than 1.1 million dollars appear from the Secret Service to Republican companies since he took office in January 2017, although the committee clarified that the figure could be higher since they do not include Trump's properties abroad, where agents accompanied him on several occasions during his presidency.

The rate is five times the regular rate

that is usually applied to security personnel for hotel accommodation, a report that could open a new legal front for corruption and embezzlement for the former president, called to testify by the committee investigating the assault on the Capitol and pending the investigation of the FBI for the classified and secret documents that he retained in his mansion in Mar-A-Lago, Florida.

"The exorbitant fees being charged to the Secret Service and the agents' frequent stays at Trump properties raise significant concerns about the personal treatment of the former president and that they may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for struggling businesses." from former President Trump," Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney wrote to

.

The documents show that

for rent for a cabin and several rooms at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, even though it was closed due to the pandemic.

According to the capital newspaper, the president did not visit the club at that time, but his daughter Ivanka did.

There he was with relatives during the Easter break despite stay-at-home orders in both Washington and New Jersey.

There are not only bills for accommodation.

During a visit by the president to Scotland, the Secret Service had to pay $1,300 to move furniture at the Turnberry resort, according to a receipt from July 2018. There is also evidence of the

of the security agents, trying to anticipate the movements of the New Yorker.

All this at the taxpayer's expense and for the benefit of Trump's coffers and his organization.

The documents prove

during his presidential term.

Not only did he not do it, but he visited his properties almost 300 times in those four years in the White House and had no problem promoting his hotels through Twitter before the social network closed the account of the.

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