Isn't it ironic that the Democrats in the House subpoenaed documents from the Treasury Dep't and that case is being fought all the way to the SCOTUS.Termin8tor » 06 Feb 2020 2:12 pm » wrote:BREAKING: Treasury Dept Hands Over Highly Sensitive Financial Records About Hunter Biden to Expanding GOP Senate Probe
Cristina Laila by Cristina Laila
GOP Senators Grassley (IA) and Johnson (WI) this week requested the official travel documents of Hunter Biden from the US Secret Service.
The Senators are expanding their investigation and just received “evidence of questionable origin” from the Treasury Department.
The Senate committee is also seeking documents on Hunter Biden from the State Department, Justice Department and the National Archives.
So why are they still attacking his son?
I don't want that **** in my thread.Termin8tor » 06 Feb 2020 4:07 pm » wrote:John Solomon reported......
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/0 ... abricated/
Mnuchin is hiding this until after the election.Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties.
President Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at rates as high as $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts.
Those charges, compiled here for the first time, show that Trump has an unprecedented — and largely hidden — business relationship with his own government.
When Trump visits his clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, N.J., the service needs space to post guards and store equipment.
Trump’s company says it charges only minimal fees. But Secret Service records do not show that.
At Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, the Secret Service was charged the $650 rate dozens of times in 2017, and a different rate, $396.15, dozens more times in 2018, according to documents from Trump’s visits.
And at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the Secret Service was charged $17,000 a month to use a three-bedroom cottage on the property, an unusually high rent for homes in that area, according to receipts from 2017.
Trump’s company billed the government even for days when Trump wasn’t there.
These payments appear to contradict the Trump Organization’s own statements about what it charges members of his government entourage.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,”
Trump’s son Eric said in a Yahoo Finance interview last year.
The full extent of the Secret Service’s payments to Trump’s company is not known.
The Secret Service has not listed them in public databases of federal spending, as is usually required for payments over $10,000.
Instead, documents have come out piecemeal, through public records requests from news organizations and watchdog groups.
The Washington Post compiled available records and found 103 payments from the Secret Service to Trump’s company dated between January 2017 and April 2018.
The records show more than $471,000 in payments from taxpayers to Trump’s companies.
But — because these records cover only a fraction of Trump’s travel during a fraction of his term — the actual total is likely to be higher.
“It is more than a little disconcerting, knowing this is going on, and not knowing what the actual numbers are,” said Jordan Libowitz, of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
“That’s kind of crazy that we know the president is benefiting from the presidency, and we do not know how.
We do not know how many taxpayer dollars are in his pocket.”
The White House did not respond to questions about Trump’s knowledge of these payments.
In a statement, the Secret Service said that its spending “balances operational security with judicious allocation of resources.”
By law, Secret Service agents are exempt from the government’s usual per diem spending limits while they are protecting the president.
The Secret Service did not respond to a question about why the purchases weren’t listed in public databases.
Trump still owns his company.
In response to questions from The Post, a company spokesperson said Mar-a-Lago does not charge the Secret Service $650 per room but did not address whether it had charged that rate in the past.
The company also noted that the rental cottage at Bedminster contains “multiple rooms and [includes] numerous common spaces.”
The company did not answer questions about the rates it charges the Secret Service now.
“We provide the rooms at cost and could make far more money renting them to members or guests,” Trump Organization Executive Vice President Eric Trump said in a statement.
He gave no details about how the company calculates the “at-cost” price.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump told voters that — if he was elected — he would not have time for travel.
“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump told the Hill in a June 2015 interview.
“I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”
But since taking office, Trump has spent more than 342 days — a third of his entire presidency — at his private clubs and hotels, according to a tally by The Post.
Trump has said he works during these trips.
The Secret Service always comes with him, as it does with all presidents.
But the Trump Organization has assured the public that it is giving the government a great deal.
Last year, Eric Trump told Yahoo Finance that when his father does visit his properties, he is legally required to charge something.
Eric Trump did not say what law required Trump to charge his own government, and the Secret Service did not respond to questions asking what law he was referring to.
The Secret Service is part of the Department of Homeland Security, whose internal directives state, “DHS may accept gifts to carry out program functions.”
“If he stays at one of his places, the government actually . . . saves a fortune because, if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like 50 bucks,” Eric Trump said.
That appears to be wrong.
The Secret Service is required to tell Congress twice a year about what it spends to protect Trump at his properties.
But since 2016, it has only filed two of the required six reports, according to congressional offices.
The reasons, according to Secret Service officials: key personnel left and nobody picked up the job.
Even in those two reports, the lines for Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago were blank.
The Secret Service officials said only that they abide by the law, but they did not elaborate.
They are probably referring to a provision that requires them to tell Congress about “permanent” costs.
They may not consider anything they’ve done at either club permanent.
Senate Democrats have asked the Trump administration to provide more details on the costs of Trump’s travel as part of negotiations over a bill governing the Secret Service.
But Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has told the Senate committee that he opposes a requirement to deliver those details until December 2020 at the earliest, which falls after the election.
“They’ve really stonewalled us,” said Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.).
“He’s trying to hide the details from the public, because he knows how bad it looks.
That’s the truth of it.
He’s a billionaire, but we’re spending millions of dollars to support his for-profit clubs and for-profit businesses.”
Are you implying that something unethical was done?Misty » 07 Feb 2020 9:50 am » wrote:Isn't it ironic that the Democrats in the House subpoenaed documents from the Treasury Dep't and that case is being fought all the way to the SCOTUS.BREAKING: Treasury Dept Hands Over Highly Sensitive Financial Records About Hunter Biden to Expanding GOP Senate Probe
Cristina Laila by Cristina Laila
GOP Senators Grassley (IA) and Johnson (WI) this week requested the official travel documents of Hunter Biden from the US Secret Service.
The Senators are expanding their investigation and just received “evidence of questionable origin” from the Treasury Department.
But the Senate Republicans only need to request documents, and they get whatever they want immediately.
I'll bet Putin was involved, psycho.'Evidence of questionable origin' is right.
I don't trust a **** thing that comes from this administration.
Wouldn't put it past them to fabricate evidence.
Translated into honest English; Trump and Barr are slowly cleansing all these departments of corruption, Deep State hacks. and leftist Obama moles.Sniffles has completely politicised the DOJ, the State Dep't, the Treasury Dep't, and he's working on the Intelligence Community and the DOD.
So you believe that Hunter was hired and paid far more than a Fortune 500 board member for his knowledge and skills?How rich of Sniffles to talk about Hunter Biden making money off his father's name in his insane screed in the East Room yesterday, and saying that his own kids could clean up if they did that, as if they are not.
He counts on the stupidity of his base to believe that ****, and you never disappoint.

Is that all you pinheads have?Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 12:49 pm » wrote:Wow, another huge scandal. You've got him now!Misty » 07 Feb 2020 12:37 pm » wrote:Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties.
Mnuchin is hiding this until after the election.
Just like he is hiding Sniffles' tax returns.
If there is nothing bad there, why do you need to hide?
ROFL, that you are pretending that was all just about a phone call, and ignore the fact that Giuliani, Sondland, Perry, Lev and Igor, and probably Pence too were pressuring the Ukrainian government for months to announce an investigation into the Bidens.Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 12:49 pm » wrote:This won't be like the Ukrainian phone call hoax.
No, this one is real and a huge scandal!
If this administration is involved, I don't need to imply that something unethical was done.Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 12:46 pm » wrote:Are you implying that something unethical was done?Misty » 07 Feb 2020 9:50 am » wrote:Isn't it ironic that the Democrats in the House subpoenaed documents from the Treasury Dep't and that case is being fought all the way to the SCOTUS.THE GAPING ASSHOLE WROTE: BREAKING: Treasury Dept Hands Over Highly Sensitive Financial Records About Hunter Biden to Expanding GOP Senate ProbeGOP Senators Grassley (IA) and Johnson (WI) this week requested the official travel documents of Hunter Biden from the US Secret Service.
The Senators are expanding their investigation and just received “evidence of questionable origin” from the Treasury Department.
But the Senate Republicans only need to request documents, and they get whatever they want immediately.
No Precious, he didn't actually want an investigation.Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 1:30 pm » wrote:I've never denied that, psycho. Of course he was pressuring them to investigate and declare an announcement.Misty » 07 Feb 2020 1:21 pm » wrote:ROFL, that you are pretending that was all just about a phone call, and ignore the fact that Giuliani, Sondland, Perry, Lev and Igor, and probably Pence too were pressuring the Ukrainian government for months to announce an investigation into the Bidens.
BECAUSE HE GOT CAUGHT, YOU GAPING ASSHOLE.Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 1:30 pm » wrote:But he didn't get what he wanted, and he released the aid. So freaking what?
Wow, talk about overwhelming evidence.Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 1:45 pm » wrote:
How do you INVESTIGATE anything with just an ANNOUNCEMENTyou gaping asshole?Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 1:50 pm » wrote:Got caught at what, psycho? Investigating likely corruption and possible criminal wrongdoing?Misty » 07 Feb 2020 1:43 pm » wrote:BECAUSE HE GOT CAUGHT, YOU GAPING ASSHOLE.THE GAPING ASSHOLE SAID: But he didn't get what he wanted, and he released the aid. So freaking what?
If only you had any.Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 2:21 pm » wrote:Well let's apply a little common sense to each.Misty » 06 Feb 2020 2:20 pm » wrote:Clearly you don't give a **** about racism since you put a racist in the WH.THE GAPING ASSHOLE SAID: Well gosh, psycho. I thought you were deeply concerned about racism.
You smeared Rush with the label.
Clearly you don't give a rat's *** about actual racism; how your corrupt party has destroyed the lives of many millions of minority Americans.
A 'tiny smattering' of 'mildly' offensive words spread over 'many, many, many years?'Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 1:50 pm » wrote:What's worse, a tiny smattering of mildly offensive words spread over many, many, many years?
Or decades of destroying the lives of many millions of minority Americans with dangerous, jobless neighborhoods, mostly rotten schools, corrupt political machines, social collapse and general hopelessness?
Rush. Hands down.Termin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 1:50 pm » wrote:Who is the true racist, Rush or the average Democrat supporter?
Sorry but I have to lock this thread for a while solon.solon » 07 Feb 2020 1:49 pm » wrote:Yes i showed you OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE that you are a LIAR pushing Russian Military Intelligence propaganda just like the TRAITOR you are and you RAN AWAY SOBBING like the GUTLESS COWARD you areTermin8tor » 07 Feb 2020 1:45 pm » wrote:Wow, talk about overwhelming evidence.
ADDRESS the FACTS or STFU you GUTLESS COWARD and TRAITOR
Fired and escorted from the WH.Alexander Vindman Fired and Escorted From the White House
The White House on Friday dismissed Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, whose testimony in the House impeachment hearings infuriated President Trump and his allies, escorting him out of the complex just days after the Senate trial ended in acquittal, his lawyer said.
“There is no question in the mind of any American why this man’s job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House,” David Pressman, the lawyer, said in a statement.
“Lt. Col. Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth.
His honor, his commitment to right, frightened the powerful.”
A person familiar with the situation said that Colonel Vindman’s twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, also an Army lieutenant colonel who worked at the White House, was fired, as well.
So much for that, huh?Pentagon chief says Vindman should not fear Army retaliation in Trump inquiry.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that an Army officer has no reason to fear retribution for testifying before Congress in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
Esper was asked about potential retribution for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman during a trip to New York City.
The defense secretary said the Pentagon “has protections for whistleblowers” who report waste, fraud or abuse.
He said Vindman or any other whistleblower “shouldn’t have any fear of retaliation,” according to a transcript of the exchange released by online publication Defense One.
[.......]
According to the Defense One transcript, Esper was asked what he would tell service members who might wonder if Vindman’s career is in jeopardy and whether their own careers would be at risk if they blew the whistle on waste, fraud or abuse.
Esper responded by saying the Pentagon “has protections for whistleblowers — they’re guaranteed in law.
And he shouldn’t have any fear of retaliation.
That’s DoD’s position,” referring to the Department of Defense.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pent ... p-inquiry/
I've listened to Rush for 30 years and I've NEVER heard him utter a racist word! The people who say he is have never listened to him themselves, but rely on the opinions of the left-wing media "reporting" their opinions of him day after day for that entire 30 years.Misty » 07 Feb 2020 2:34 pm » wrote: If only you had any.
A 'tiny smattering' of 'mildly' offensive words spread over 'many, many, many years?'
Your weasel words are getting more creative Precious.
I doubt those words were only 'mildly offensive' to people of color.
And spreading them over 'many, many, many years' doesn't dilute their offensiveness.
Rush. Hands down.
You obviously don't even understand what the word racist means.
Oh, I think the outrage is real, but it comes not from anything Trump does, but in their own inability to convince the rest of the country that it is really anything outrageous! Look, they've probably had their worst week since Trump got elected! I'm actually quite surprised we haven't seen liberal lemmings jumping off cliffs! But I certainly see that coming in November!Termin8tor » 08 Feb 2020 7:36 am » wrote:
Very well said, all of which little Miss Marxist will ignore as she bleats in fake outrage.

Maybe you should have your ears checked.Zeets2 » 08 Feb 2020 7:26 am » wrote:I've listened to Rush for 30 years and I've NEVER heard him utter a racist word!Misty » 07 Feb 2020 2:34 pm » wrote:If only you had any.
A 'tiny smattering' of 'mildly' offensive words spread over 'many, many, many years?'
Your weasel words are getting more creative Precious.
I doubt those words were only 'mildly offensive' to people of color.
And spreading them over 'many, many, many years' doesn't dilute their offensiveness.
Rush. Hands down.
You obviously don't even understand what the word racist means.
Maybe you forgot about this:Zeets2 » 08 Feb 2020 7:26 am » wrote:Can YOU point to a SINGLE EXAMPLE of Rush's racism that YOU PERSONALLY have ever heard?