Trump Is Funneling Money From Your Pocket To His – And It’s Totally Legal (VIDEO)

Every time President Donald Trump visits one of his properties, they bill the government and he fills his pockets – with YOUR money. Rooms – your treat. Meals – your treat. Golfing – your treat.

You Are Paying For Trump’s Lavish Lifestyle

And not JUST for Trump and his family. You’re also paying Trump for all the staff he has with him. Rooms for Secret Service – your treat. Meals for Secret Service – your treat. Golf carts for Secret Service – your treat. Every expense involved in allowing Trump to entertain foreign heads of state at one of his properties costs you money.

When his sons travel? Yep – you pay for that too. Their trip to Ireland – your treat. All their Secret Service protection – your treat. Their limousines – your treat. And of course we all remember the Spring Break trip to Aspen for all the Trump children and their children — all paid for by you. From the Washington Post:

“Trump’s sons — Donald Jr. and Eric — have traveled to Dubai, Vancouver, Uruguay and Ireland to promote the family’s real estate empire.”

None of the trips abroad taken by the Trump sons were for diplomatic reasons. They were business trips for the sole purpose of supporting the Trump empire. The Uruguayan trip resulted in a cost of $97,830 — and that was just the hotel bill! Also from the Washington Post:

“The Uruguayan trip shows how the government is unavoidably entangled with the Trump company as a result of the president’s refusal to divest his ownership stake. In this case, government agencies are forced to pay to support business operations that ultimately help to enrich the president himself. Though the Trumps have pledged a division of business and government, they will nevertheless depend on the publicly funded protection granted to the first family as they travel the globe promoting their brand.”

Trump and his entire freeloading family is living high on the hog – and you’re paying for it all.

Are you pissed yet? Because you should be.

How Is That Even Legal?

U.S. State Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a stalwart Trump foe, says:

“The Trump family’s frequent travel to international destinations purely to promote the Trump family business is burning through taxpayer dollars at an unprecedented rate and stretching the Secret Service increasingly thin.”

With the cavalier attitude of the entire Trump family, playing free and easy with our tax dollars, we’ll be lucky if the country doesn’t go bankrupt. But how can all that spending even be legal, since it goes right into the pocket of a person that isn’t legally allowed to profit from his status?

According to The Hill:

“We have strong rules in place to prevent federal workers from feeling pressured to pay their superiors in any way: Government employees may not accept gifts from their subordinates valued at more than $10, and at most agencies, employees cannot even sell Girl Scout cookies during business hours. We also prohibit giving government business to companies in which government employees have a financial stake — except, as we are learning, the president.”

So, if federal workers can’t even sell Girl Scout cookies to their co-workers, how does Trump get away with the blatant promotion of his branded properties? How many times have we heard him give a plug for one of his hotels, resorts, or golf clubs? He schedules his press conferences there. He encourages people to rent rooms at his hotel while they are staying in DC to conduct business, both foreign and domestic. He even got in an advertising plug for the chocolate cake served at his Mar-a-Lago resort:

In speeches and on Twitter, Trump is constantly advertising his brand. He is making millions — and it is all your money. He openly encourages government agencies to frequent his properties to curry favor with him. The State department alone spent over $15,000 at the Trump Hotel in Vancouver, Canada on 19 hotel rooms! Let that sink in. At a time when many people in this country barely make $15,000 a year the State department is funneling that tax money from your pocket to Trump’s pocket

Being president has been the best marketing plan Trump ever deployed.

Can We Stop The Funnel?

According to The Hill:

“The unfortunate fact is that current loopholes for the president make it difficult to stop Trump from accepting taxpayer money at his private establishments — a clear example of how legal is not always synonymous with ethical. But if Trump won’t stop asking for our money, then we should take steps to make the government stop giving it to him in the first place.” 

So, we can’t legally stop this funneling of your tax dollars into the Trump empire right now. But we can take steps to make sure that we close those loopholes for the future. Individually, we should all be contacting one Representatives and Senators in DC and demanding that they enact policies that will define this as an unacceptable practice. It apparently isn’t enough just to have ethical standards when the person breaking the ethics barriers is the elected president.

I’m sure that the Founding Fathers never foresaw someone with Trump’s lack of morals, conscience, ethics, and outright greed holding the office. Trump really does think that he is the monarch of a royal family with superior genes. Delusional, yes, but he is bleeding the country dry while we sit here debating whether he needs to be removed from office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4NZfIDPAv4

 

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