Liberals on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Friday accused former US President Donald Trump of charging the Secret Service “exorbitant prices” for bedrooms at his previous hotel in Washington while he was president.
Democrats claimed in a report published in a statement from CBS News that Trump allegedly consciously charged officials far above what other comparable rooms would charge as the security measure for Trump community members.
The Secret Service’s claims, according to the 58-page report, “exemplify plainly that former President Trump’s DC hotel treated sits by Trump family users as the best authorities ATM withdrawal chance.”
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, which was recently closed and renamed the Waldorf-Astoria, was where the Committee Democrats obtained hotel billing records, according to CBS News. The records, spanning from September 2017 to August 2018, were acquired after legal challenges against Trump’s former accounting firm, Mazars USA.
According to the report, the Secret Service used taxpayer funds to pay higher rates for room rentals compared to customers who booked comparable rooms on the same nights. For instance, on Nov. 28, 2017,” the room records produced to the Committee by Mazars show that, on that night, among the rooms the Secret Service rented, several were charged at the$ 600 rate. Notably, that very night, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D. C., rented out more than 80 rooms at rates less than$ 600 per room, including a dozen rooms rented to the Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal Co, Ltd. —which is headquartered in China—for$ 338.85 each”.
Additionally, according to the report, the Secret Service paid more than four times the per diem rate for rooms at the Trump Hotel on February 22, 2018, which “astonishes a markup of more than 450 % of the per diem rate.”
According to the report,” the room records provided by Mazars show that two of the rooms the Secret Service rented were priced at$ 895 each,” and” the room records also reveal that former President Trump’s DC hotel rented out more than 100 rooms that evening at rates less than$ 895, including at least one room that was rented out for just$ 150.”
The report claims that former President Trump broke the Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause, which forbids a president from receiving any payments from the federal government besides their salaries, by accepting these payments from the Secret Service.
Former President Trump allegedly violated the Domestic Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which forbids a president from receiving any payments from the federal government besides a salary, by accepting payments from the Secret Service.
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