Trump spent almost $1 million taxpayer dollars to rent four Mercedes Benz limos

[MineralMan]

for a couple of days in Ireland. That comes to almost $250,000 for each limo and driver for two days. Here's a link to a brand new, 2020 Mercedes van-style limo for sale. The price: $174,000!



https://limoforsale.com/limos-for-sale/mercedes-benz/2020-mercedes-benz-van-limo-midwest-automotive-designs-12959.html

Think about it! He's paying more per limo than those limousines cost to buy, brand new, in order to use them for a couple of days.

Why?

The only reason I can think of is a kick-back of part of that $1 million back to the Trump family. Not to Donald, directly, no. Instead it will be laundered carefully and kicked back to Don Jr. or Eric, through one of the Trump family businesses.

There is no other possible reason for that cost for four limos for 2 days.

[Gothmog]

1. Is trump or trump company getting a kickback?

[dchill]

4. Why wouldn't they?

Who's going to stop them? This is what they do! They've got to make a living.

[MineralMan]

6. Trump company. Same thing with their stay at the Irish Trump

golf resort. The taxpayers will pay for that, too, but will be charged far more than the usual cost. Just like the limo rentals.

This is the emoluments clause being corrupted through misdirection of payments.

This is why Trump spends so much time at Trump-owned properties. His entourage has to pay his property for everything, from rooms and meals to golf cart rentals. And all of those things are charged at premium rates far higher than what the general public would pay for them.

It's all an easy to understand scheme to pump taxpayer dollars into the Trump family business accounts. The total amount during Trump's term in office will easily exceed $1 billion, I'm certain. And there will be no itemized accounting that compares what Trump properties charge the US Government with the standard rates for the same services.

I don't know how that would be investigated, but it should be.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. So long; it's been good to know you.

[MineralMan]

7. Oh, damn! I missed it.

I was typing a reply, or I'd have seen what was posted.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. He was advertising HP printers. NT

[MineralMan]

15. Oh, just a commercial spammer. Never mind.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. How boring. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Warning: scenes of laundering may be too intense for some viewers.

[genxlib]

16. That was mesmerizing to watch

I can't believe how it kept going like a zombie.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. China will pay for it! NT

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. My first thought when I read this last night was

that someone in the tRump Crime Family owes the owner some money.

Just another way the grifters use our tax money.

[bigbrother05]

9. Probably contracted thru the golf resort

Likely "necessary" because of the size of his traveling group.

[AJT]

10. No, WE spent 1 million dollars to rent 4 limos.

[MineralMan]

11. Exactly, and it will line the Trump family's pockets, too.

He's been doing this all along by constantly visiting his own properties and having the US Government foot everyone's inflated bills.

[malaise]

12. He did not spend that money

You and other tax payers spent it

[MineralMan]

13. Yes, of course.

I changed the thread title to reflect that. I just assumed that everyone understood who was actually paying.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. no words

[MineralMan]

20. I have a few choice ones, but hesitate to post them

out of an abundance of caution against using profanity in public.

[Scurrilous]

21. ...

[Beringia]

22. Interesting that a man

who has no cares about the planet, about other humans, about his wives makes it to the top. He seems to really enjoy total luxury and dumping on everyone around him.

[MineralMan]

23. Yes, and disgusting, too.

Sometimes shit floats to the top. (Please excuse my language.)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Couldn't he have just used his golf cart?

[Scarsdale]

25. Taxpayer should DEMAND to know

how much this entire trip cost the treasury. The entire family of grifters went along - FREE. Vacation on the taxpayers dime. Even Kellyanne and Sarah Sanders. The pub crawl by the tRump "boys" likely cost a pretty penny, too, what with all the secret service protection. I am beyond disgusted. It cost a fortune for this grifting family to make the USA look like damn fools. The ORIGINAL cost for those 4 limos should be made public. I will bet they were vastly inflated, like everything tRump.

[MuseRider]

26. I hope they enjoyed themselves

because if justice will out they will be carrying these memories to prison.

They know this is wrong and if they don't we need to be certain that the people we put in that office has an inkling how this looks and what it actually is.

[A HERETIC I AM]

30. First of all, I can absolutely guarantee you they didn't hire drivers over there.

Second, this was more than likely a decision made by the Secret Service, as opposed to anything from the oval office.

This is over the top hyperbole, frankly. I doubt the fees and the idea that Trump himself had anything to do with this choice is as likely as him demanding to be flown in a Bell helicopter instead of a Sikorsky.


It ain't happening.

But of course, it makes for a great thread...people love to be outraged, no matter the source or how ridiculous.

[MineralMan]

31. You can, eh?

Based on what knowledge I don't have?

Explain $1 million paid to rent four limos for a couple of days. As I pointed out, for that amount they could have bought those four limos.

I've rented limos with drivers a few times. I've never paid $250,000 for one for two days. I've never paid $125,000 for one for a single day, either.

My wife and I rented a limo a few years ago to take her parents on a wine tour at the wineries around the area where we lived in California. We had the limo all day, along with a driver, who took us from one winery to another for tours of those wineries. The whole shebang cost us about $400, and it was a gift for her father's 70-something birthday. It was a gift that was very well received by him.

I didn't pay the price of a limo for the day. I paid the going rate in that area.

[MineralMan]

35. Here's your link:

https://thehill.com/policy/international/447186-trump-admin-spends-1-million-on-funeral-home-limo-rentals-for-two-day

Here's another:

https://time.com/5601908/ireland-funeral-home-trump-visit-limos/

And another:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/irish-funeral-firm-rents-out-four-limousines-to-trump-for-1m

This has been in multiple threads already.

[WoonTars]

34. Wait, you think the SS let a regular company limo driver drive Trump around??

[Fritz Walter]

32. Another possibility

Who in their right mind would want to ride in these limos after they've been contaminated with AquaNet, hamburder wrappers, KFC chicken bones and crumbs, and the general stench that this whole family exudes?

Even extensive detailing would only cover up some of the mess. The vehicles would have to be completely gutted: from carpeting and floor mats to upholstered seats, to fabric window shades, to the ceiling. And even then, future passengers would still know that cadet bone spurs and his spawn had ridden in them. Not fit for hauling swine to the marketplace now.

I guess someone could transport them to the USA and sell them to wealthy Drumpf donors, but with tariff-mania underway, even the most loyal Cult45 members would opt for limos assembled in 'Murica.