Mar-a-Lago billed the White House $1,000 for alcohol WH staff served themselves
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https://theweek.com/speedreads/838766/maralago-billed-white-house-1000-topshelf-liquor-that-government-aides-reportedly-served-themselves
While President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed a steak dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, Secret Service agents and White House aides were reportedly having an
extravaganza of their own.
After Trump and Xi's dinner in April 2017, then-White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin and then-Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon went into Mar-a-Lago's Library Bar with a group of
advisers and told the bartender to leave so they could "speak confidentially," an email from a Mar-a-Lago staffer shows. "Secret Service did not allow the bartender to enter the room
again," and "the group served themselves," the emails — obtained by ProPublica and WNYC — continue.
"Served themselves" puts it a bit lightly. The group downed 54 top-shelf drinks and left without paying, per emails and a $1005.60 bill that Mar-a-Lago sent to the State Department a few
days later and ProPublica obtained.
The State Department refused to pay the hefty tab, so the White House ended up covering it, presumably with taxpayer money, ProPublica reports. The White House didn't respond to a
request for comment or say if it asked any partakers to split the bill.
So basically Trump is drinking money now?
That's $18 for a topshelf drink, not hugely expensive. Sounds like assholes taking advantage of an open bar, not Mar A Lago skimming anything?
Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me.
Don't get me wrong, I dislike Trump as much as anyone else here but I don't think this was a purposeful action on his part to have the White House cover the tab. A bunch of folks thought they could get away with it without paying, and someones got to pay at the end of the day.
The real question is did those people receive disciplinary action at all.
Doubtful they did.
Apparently Steve Bannon thinking its all Trump's so he can drink away
Yeah, based on his usual appearance, I'm assuming Bannon drank about half of it himself.
I don't think it was "purposeful" as in "he means to steal from the American Tax Payer" but at the same time, every single trip to MarALago is just Trump literally taking tax payer money. Sure, he's not skimming extra(from what we can tell at the moment) but that's still egregious.
Trump stays at his properties every other week on purpose, and that's because it funnels millions of dollars each time into his pockets. He's using the office of the presidency to enrich himself and little more
I think this speaks about shady practices in the secret service if anything
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