Which is why Mar-a-Lago is raising its entrance fees, since everyone who's anyone wants to join, because they get to hob-nob with the President (four of the last five weekends), and attending cabinet officials, and visiting dignitaries — with the American taxpayer footing the travel to and the security bill at the private club.
'As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, we’re looking at an ethical nightmare. A president who refuses to divest from his many business ventures still owns a for-profit enterprise, in which undisclosed people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for exclusive access – and the facility itself openly acknowledges the financial benefits of exploiting Trump’s presidency.
How many lobbyists or agents of foreign governments are signing up to take advantage? We don’t know – because Mar-a-Lago doesn’t disclose its membership list.'
Presidenting for fun and profit.
Following Sessions’ Mar-a-Lago appearance, new ethics questions arise
If you voted Republican because you were worried about Hillary Clinton and pay-to-play controversies, I have some very bad news for you.
Milo Minderbinder would have appreciated this. Of course, not everyone has a share.
+Travis Bird somewhere, someone is working overtime to sell Trump Brand chocolate covered Egyptian cotton balls.
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/832993436533874688
+Simon B Which, for those who don't want to go to Twitter to read it: 'Any foreign intel service that doesn't have an agent as a member or employee of Mar-a-Lago is guilty of rank incompetence.'
Ayup.
(Or, conversely, Trump has made an arrangement with the Secret Service to fully staff Mar-a-Lago with its own agents, at the taxpayers' expense. Which would also be right in line with his MO.)
No one on the Trump team is that clever Dave. Not to mention that's a lot of spooks running around pretending to be butlers, banquet organisers, gardeners, sommeliers, etc… I mean, maybe the CIA has those on the payroll, but the secret service…?