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DENVERPOPS

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10. I recall from his first term
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 11:58 AM
Mar 2025

that he was charging the Secret Service for all their rooms when he was down there for a couple of days every two weeks or so.
Then he tripled the daily rate at some point for their rooms. Then he stipulated that all rooms could only be rented BY THE MONTH, or basically 30 times the increased daily rate, as the monthly rate for the secret service rentals....

As a side note: At one of his golf resorts, he had the Secret Service declare that his fleet of golf carts were far to slow, so they ordered a whole BRAND NEW fleet, at the Tax Payers Expense, that would do twice the speed as the old ones.......

The press always reported his trips on Air Force One as costing a couple of hundred grand.......LOL Of course, that was only the cost of the fuel. It is estimated that the cost per flight to Mar a Lago, is TRULY around TEN MILLION per flight........Not sure that that includes every additional cost, including the cost of the fighter jets that escort the plane anywhere he goes......

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