The report found that Trump stole from taxpayers as president

A new Democratic report from the House Oversight Committee shows that Trump treated the Secret Service like an ATM and charged them far above the legal limit for rooms while he was president.

The report found that Trump and his family lied. The Secret Service did not stay on his property for free, but instead charged rates several times higher than the statutory daily wage limit;

Then-President Trump He turned the Secret Service into an ATM for his own personal enrichment, often charging rates for the agency's numbers far higher than government-approved per diems and far higher than hundreds of other private sponsors when Secret Service agents protected members of the Trump family. For example:
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On November 8, 2017, when Donald Trump Jr. was staying at former President Trump's DC hotel, President Trump's Secret Service approved a room rate of $1,185, five times the government-approved daily rate of $201. Room tapes provided to the committee by Mazars show that the Secret Service was indeed charged a staggering $1,185 for two rooms that evening. Amazingly, on the same night, the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. rented out more than 200 hotels. Private party rooms for just $125 or $170 each
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On November 28, 2017, with Eric Trump and his wife Lara Trump apparently in residence, the Secret Service approved a waiver of $600 for the room, when the official daily wage for that month was only $201. Charts presented to the committee show that on that very night, the Trump International Hotel in Washington rented out more than 80 rooms for less than $600 a room, including renting a dozen rooms to Yitai Coal Co., Ltd. of Inner Mongolia. “a private corporation headquartered in China” for $338.85 each.
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During Eric Trump's visit on February 22, 2018, then-President Trump's DC hotel charged the Secret Service $895 for at least one room, more than four times the daily rate of $201. On the same night, four That evening at the DC Hotel, the “Sheikh Al Thani Family Extended Stay” rooms, the name of the Qatari royal family Al Thani, were charged at prices as low as $895. As such, Trump. Charged taxpayers far more that night for his illegal domestic rewards than he charged foreign royals for his illegal foreign rewards.

The report also found that Trump's sons, who were not in the administration, were not charged for their rooms at the DC hotel, but Jared and Ivanka Trump were charged as members of the Trump administration and taxpayers footed the bill.

Trump also, according to the report, outlined what might be a payoff for the operation outside the hotel, where foreign governments, job seekers and people seeking pardons all wired money to Trump through the D.C. hotel.

Controlling Democrats say Trump was able to exploit weaknesses in anti-corruption laws to get away with this theft.

Donald Trump and his family have potentially stolen millions of dollars from taxpayers by permanently staying in properties they own and overcharging the government.

The report examines the records of one Trump property over an 11-month period.

What Trump did should be seen as criminal, and that is another reason why the president cannot be sent back to the White House.

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Jason is the managing editor. She is also the White House Press Center and Congressional Correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a BA in Political Science. Her graduate work focused on public policy, specializing in social reform movements.

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