Trump has spent more Tax payer $ going to Mar-A-Lago than the the Russia investigation has cost.

[heyitsmeallen]

Funny how much he criticized Obama for traveling and playing golf and he’s on pace to destroy Obama’s golf count and his trips to his country clubs have cost more than the entire Russia probe. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/01/trumps-spent-far-more-going-to-mar-a-lago-alone-than-the-mueller-probe-has-cost/?utm_term=.e39e6602221d

 

 

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President Trump’s frustration with the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any coordination with his campaign was expressed in dollar terms Friday morning.

 

Trump is referring to an Associated Press report citing data recently submitted to the Justice Department by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team. Through the end of March, the price tag for Mueller’s efforts has been about $16.7 million. From October to March, the probe — which the Associated Press did not refer to as “the Russia Hoax Investigation” — cost about $1.7 million each month.

In the grand scheme of government spending, $16.7 million is … not a lot. The federal government is expected to spend about $4.1 trillion in fiscal 2018. To put it into more tangible terms, spending $16.7 million of $4.1 trillion is like making $50,000 a year and spending 20 cents.

We can also put this cost into more concrete spending terms.

Shortly after Trump took office, there was a report from Politico estimating that his trips to his private club in Florida ran upward of $3 million a pop. It was later determined that this number was almost certainly too high, given that it was based on a Government Accountability Office tally for a trip taken by President Barack Obama that included a stop in Chicago. The conservative group Judicial Watch, which calculated similar figures for Obama’s presidency, told the AP that it figured each trip to Mar-a-Lago cost about $1 million, including only Air Force One travel and Secret Service protection.

Guess what. Trump has been to Mar-a-Lago 17 times, for a grand total of $17 million in flight and protection costs.

The dates of those trips:

Feb. 3, 2017

Feb. 10, 2017

Feb. 17, 2017

March 3, 2017

March 17, 2017

April 6, 2017

April 13, 2017

Nov. 21, 2017

Dec. 8, 2017

Dec. 22, 2017

Jan. 12, 2018

Feb. 2, 2018

Feb. 16, 2018

March 2, 2018

March 23, 2018

March 29, 2018

April 16, 2018

 

Again, this is including only two subsets of the costs incurred by the federal government. It doesn’t include, Judicial Watch told the AP, things like “airlifting equipment such as the presidential limousines.” Nor does it include all the costs of protection. In July of last year, The Washington Post determined that the Coast Guard had spent about $6.6 millionon guarding the beachfront-adjacent property over the course of Trump’s first five visits there. If the other visits were similarly expensive, the overall price tag essentially doubles.

Just to go to Mar-a-Lago, Judicial Watch figures that each trip Trump has made to his club in Bedminster, N.J., costs more than $40,000 in travel time alone. He’s been there nine times. He’s been to his golf club in Sterling, Va., a whopping 31 times, usually on the weekends; the costs of those trips are not included in the total.

These are all estimates. To get hard figures, we’d need more information from the White House, something that the Government Accountability Office announced last March that it was hoping to determine (as it did for Obama). Just this week, though, it was reported that the White House was stonewalling.

In a letter to the majority, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee requested a hearing to look into the White House’s failure to provide information, based on a May 9 letter from the GAO to White House counsel Donald McGahn.

“I understand that attorneys from your office and the National Security Council (NSC) will not respond to inquiries or otherwise engage with GAO staff during the course of our reviews,” that letter, from GAO general counsel Thomas Armstrong, read. “This approach represents a clear departure from past practice.”

Trump has been unusually secretive about his leisure time, generally refusing to admit that he spends much of it playing golf. This is probably partly because of the rhetoric he deployed on the campaign trail and before, when he excoriated Obama’s golfing and travel. Trump has already played more rounds of golf by our tally than Obama played in his first 39 months in office.

But the costs incurred from those trips are different. That’s public money being spent by the president — a drop in the federal budget bucket, yes, but not nothing. It’s more than, say, the cost of the Mueller investigation, probably several times over.

Then again, we understand why McGahn might have higher-priority issues to deal with.

 

 

[begooode]

Waiting for @MadMax to graciously invite our resident Trumpers to engage in witty repartee in defense of their much maligned leader,...

[MadMax]

Spin it, retards.

[Omar]

How much did the whitewater investigation cost? Adjusted for inflation..

[Btowner]

19 minutes ago, MadMax said:

Spin it, retards.

Too funny. Right after your clarion call to the retards, you get an immediate response.

 

[WG53]

1 hour ago, JakePA_Titan said:

So 16.7m in the grand scheme of things isn't a lot when it comes a meaningless investigation, but it is a lot when it comes to meaningless travel?

 

Meanwhile, ppl bitch about money for a wall that would actually make a difference....

Lmao a wall would make a difference? More stupidity from the resident moron.

[thor]

Is that all Trump has spent going to Florida??? I would have expected it to be a lot more --- since he has to leave Washington due to Obama's spying and leaking activities and corruption... 

[Rogue]

This will only please his supporters 

[heyitsmeallen]

2 hours ago, JakePA_Titan said:

So 16.7m in the grand scheme of things isn't a lot when it comes a meaningless investigation, but it is a lot when it comes to meaningless travel?

 

Meanwhile, ppl bitch about money for a wall that would actually make a difference....

I think the point is that Trump is bitching that the investigation has cost the taxpayers so much but he doesn’t mind spending that kind of money to go play golf. 

And the wall wouldn’t make a difference. You build a wall they use the hundreds of tunnels already available or start going by boat to California. 

[begooode]

For those keeping score at home, we have our “I’ll be too busy to play golf” prez meekly defended by:

 

1 truly bad false equivalency + a link to a 30bil symbolic wall

1 lame obama reference

1 lame hillary reference

=

$17mil of excuses that no real preTrump conservative would have ever tolerated from their prez.

The only things cheap from these clowns are their allegiances to real conservative principles.  

[Mythos27]

3 minutes ago, JakePA_Titan said:

 Ot that I really want to get back into the who he did it, she did it BS. But Obama played a good amount of golf too.

 

The point  ehind the investigation though, is we all realize or expect nothing really major to come from it, so is it not really a waste? And we can say the POTUS using tax payer money to travel outside of work duties is as well, but again, they all have done it.

 

If the same ppl crying about Trump doing it cried about Obama and Bush doing it, Ill digress. However, I dont think that is the case with most of those taking issue.

Are you kidding me? The special counsel will more likely than not recommend impeachment charge against a sitting U.S. President and to you that's nothing major? Even you don't believe that.

[Btowner]

45 minutes ago, JakePA_Titan said:

A lot better than mowing the grass or putting millions to billions into Mexicos economy...

 

Those brilliant ideas from those who oppose a wall.

Stay focus and keep up Jake. This has nothing to do with a wall. It's about Trump bashing Obama for playing golf while playing more golf than Obama. It's about complaining about the cost of Mueller's investigation while spending more on his golfing trips.

 

You don't have to defend everything Trump does.

 

 

[Mythos27]

Just now, Btowner said:

Stay focus and keep up Jake. This has nothing to do with a wall. It's about Trump bashing Obama for playing golf while playing more golf than Obama. Its about complaining about the cost of Mueller's investigation while spending more on his golfing trips.

He can't focus on that. The cognitive dissonance is too strong and he's not intellectually honest enough to admit it's a bad look.

[heyitsmeallen]

15 minutes ago, JakePA_Titan said:

 Not that I really want to get back into the who he did it, she did it BS. But Obama played a good amount of golf too.

 

The point  ehind the investigation though, is we all realize or expect nothing really major to come from it, so is it not really a waste?

 

 And we can say the POTUS using tax payer money to travel outside of work duties is as well, but again, they all have done it.

 

If the same ppl crying about Trump doing it cried about Obama and Bush doing it, Ill digress. However, I dont think that is the case with most of those taking issue.

I don’t have any problem with the investigation or the POTUS traveling. Like the article in the OP says. The amount spent on the investigation is pennies compared to the budget for the year. I’m sure people thought watergate was a waste of money too. And the whole golf thing is just pointed out because of how much Trump criticized Obama his whole presidency for playing golf and traveling. Hell Trump even campaigned saying he wouldn’t be golfing because he wouldn’t have time, and now he’s doing it more than Obama did. Here’s a graph someone made comparing the 2 week by week. “Confirmed” is Trumps confirmed times playing golf. His visits to his golf courses is way higher than that. 

 

Again. This is something that people wouldn’t even bother to bring up if Trump hadn’t been so vocal against Obama for doing the same thing and now he’s doing it at a more frequent pace than Obama did. Of course people are going to point out the Hypocrisy. 

 

Source for the graph.

[LongTimeFan]

I think all the presidents abuse the travel.