State Department Reportedly Spent $15K On Rooms At A Trump Hotel
- 7 years ago
Amid ongoing allegations of conflicts of interest involving President Trump and his businesses, a Washington Post report describes an instance concerning the State Department spending thousands of dollars on lodging at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver earlier this year.
Amid ongoing allegations of conflicts of interest involving President Trump and his businesses, a Washington Post report describes an instance concerning the State Department spending thousands of dollars on lodging at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver earlier this year.
According to the Post, which broke the story with evidence gathered from a Freedom of Information Act request, “The State Department spent more than $15,000 to book 19 rooms at the new Trump hotel in Vancouver when members of President Trump’s family headlined the grand opening of the tower in late February.”
The publication goes on to call this “the first evidence of State Department expenditures at a Trump-branded property since President Trump took office in January.”
While the family’s company does not have an ownership stake in the hotel, it still earns royalties which reportedly totaled more than $5 million in the year through this April.
Media outlets have continued to point out the president's alleged conflicts of interests; earlier this year, the liberal website ThinkProgress tracked his frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida which doubled its joining fee to $200,000 after he was elected.
In May, the Trump Organization hosted its first ever PGA tournament at its course near Washington, D.C.; the New York Times called the event one of the “pitfalls associated with a businessman president unwilling to make a clean break with his commercial empire.”
And earlier this week, some House Democrats announced an inquiry into determining if the president could profit from his stake in a Brooklyn affordable housing complex based on decisions made by his administration.
Amid ongoing allegations of conflicts of interest involving President Trump and his businesses, a Washington Post report describes an instance concerning the State Department spending thousands of dollars on lodging at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver earlier this year.
According to the Post, which broke the story with evidence gathered from a Freedom of Information Act request, “The State Department spent more than $15,000 to book 19 rooms at the new Trump hotel in Vancouver when members of President Trump’s family headlined the grand opening of the tower in late February.”
The publication goes on to call this “the first evidence of State Department expenditures at a Trump-branded property since President Trump took office in January.”
While the family’s company does not have an ownership stake in the hotel, it still earns royalties which reportedly totaled more than $5 million in the year through this April.
Media outlets have continued to point out the president's alleged conflicts of interests; earlier this year, the liberal website ThinkProgress tracked his frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida which doubled its joining fee to $200,000 after he was elected.
In May, the Trump Organization hosted its first ever PGA tournament at its course near Washington, D.C.; the New York Times called the event one of the “pitfalls associated with a businessman president unwilling to make a clean break with his commercial empire.”
And earlier this week, some House Democrats announced an inquiry into determining if the president could profit from his stake in a Brooklyn affordable housing complex based on decisions made by his administration.