{"id":133006,"date":"2017-03-09T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/its-good-to-be-the-president-who-profits-from-the-winter-white-house.html"},"modified":"2017-03-09T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:47:25","slug":"its-good-to-be-the-president-who-profits-from-the-winter-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/its-good-to-be-the-president-who-profits-from-the-winter-white-house.html","title":{"rendered":"It's GOOD to be the President Who Profits From The "Winter White House""},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

'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.<\/i><\/p>\n

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.'<\/i><\/p>\n

Presidenting for fun and profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nFollowing Sessions’ Mar-a-Lago appearance, new ethics questions arise<\/a><\/span>
\nIf you voted Republican because you were worried about Hillary Clinton and pay-to-play controversies, I have some very bad news for you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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 … Continue reading “It's GOOD to be the President Who Profits From The "Winter White House"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133293,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/mar-a-lago-gets-a-vacation-at-new-jerseys-expense.html","url_meta":{"origin":133006,"position":0},"title":"Mar-a-Lago gets a vacation, at New Jersey's expense","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Apr-17 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"And I mean literal expense.Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida country club resort and regular weekend getaway, will be shutting down for the season (who knew?), and the President is expected to instead spend his weekends at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.(I mean, he could spend his time, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133338,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/its-good-to-make-money-off-the-winter-white-house.html","url_meta":{"origin":133006,"position":1},"title":"it's GOOD to make money off the "Winter White House"","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Apr-17 5:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The problem here is that there are reasonable cases to be made on both sides. 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