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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 12:10 AM Nov 2017

GOP reps who have spent the most at Trump properties.Let's see what their spending bought them..

Since President Trump won last year’s election, his company — the Trump Organization — has experienced an increase in one particular line of business: hosting fundraisers and receptions for Republican lawmakers.These events have mostly happened at Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, which opened last year.

Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.) - Arrington’s campaign spent more than $16,000 on the reception,No other GOP lawmaker has reported holding an event this expensive at Trump’s D.C. hotel.

Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) - $15,221 spent at Trump-branded properties,Trump undercut MacArthur’s key legislative achievement — a House bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health-care law — by publicly calling it “mean.” MacArthur’s staff did not respond to requests for comment.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) - $12,545 spent at Trump-branded properties

Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) - $9,277 spent at Trump-branded properties ,A few weeks later, Trump lent his support to an idea that Shuster had been pushing for years — privatizing the U.S. air traffic control system. In an East Room ceremony, Trump signed a memo and a letter to Congress endorsing the idea, as Shuster looked on. The plan later stalled in Congress.Shuster did not respond to a request for comment.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) - $7,585 spent at Trump-branded properties - Around the same time, Trump was considering McCaul as a candidate for homeland security secretary.The homeland security job went instead to John Kelly, who later became White House chief of staff. McCaul remains in the House.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/gop-money-trump-properties/?utm_term=.d5b96ca7eac9

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GOP reps who have spent the most at Trump properties.Let's see what their spending bought them.. (Original Post) HipChick Nov 2017 OP
Influence is cheaper than I thought n/t SonofDonald Nov 2017 #1
They seem sort of cheap, I thought they usually BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #2
This is pure corruption. Self-dealing. Banana republic stuff. sharedvalues Nov 2017 #3
Not to mention the way foreigners bribe Trump by staying at his properties. sharedvalues Nov 2017 #4
No sense of propriety Generic Other Nov 2017 #5
You reminded me of my past in Alaska SonofDonald Nov 2017 #6

BigmanPigman

(51,660 posts)
2. They seem sort of cheap, I thought they usually
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 01:47 AM
Nov 2017

spend much more than that. I guess I was comparing them to foreign governments' and businesses' expenditures at his properties.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
3. This is pure corruption. Self-dealing. Banana republic stuff.
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 02:30 AM
Nov 2017

The president's self-dealing at his properties is a black mark on America.

The founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
5. No sense of propriety
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 02:42 AM
Nov 2017

Just mind boggling. The sort that would pick his nose and eat his boogers in public and then seriously look at all the aghast witnesses and say "what?"

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)
6. You reminded me of my past in Alaska
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 10:51 AM
Nov 2017

I worked for a very large oil company, there was an executive who was very high up, he couldn't keep his finger out of his nose.

The phrase " nose buffet " and "digging for gold he is" just popped into my head reading your post, his nickname among the peons like myself was "Booger".

I can't stop laughing after reading your post and that memory came slamming back.

Sorry but I can't help it, oh man.....

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