It’s a well-known fact that Trump is profiting off of taxpayers in many regards. All presidents’ personal well being is paid for by our government—as it should be. The U.S. Secret Service will famously take a bullet for a president. Our current president is such a pathological case, he needs a special brand of protection. But Donald Trump is a conman first and foremost and his insistence on grifting the American public by profiting off of this protection is crass at best, and criminal at worst. Late Thursday, reports came out that the Secret Service was moving their command post out of Trump Tower because the rates being demanded to stay there were ridiculous.
The Secret Service has had a presence in Trump Tower since late 2015, when then-candidate Donald J. Trump became a front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. For much of that time, it ran its operations from space inside the building, just one floor below Mr. Trump’s triplex residence.
The G.S.A., which arranges real estate transactions on behalf of federal agencies, had been in negotiations with the Trump Organization to formalize a lease of that space when the deal collapsed. The two parties had gone as far as drawing up a lease contract, the two people privy to the negotiations said. But representatives of the Trump Organization refused to sign it over objections to the inclusion of a clause in the contract, the contents of which were not immediately known.
Considering that these are the men and women charged with taking … a … bullet for the orange man, the magnitude of this is not a small thing. But there is a dark poetry here. Trump is a conman. “Winning” to Trump means scamming people out of money and land.
The Secret Service has been forced to relocate its Trump Tower command center to a trailer outside the Midtown skyscraper after a lease agreement between the General Services Administration and the Trump Organization fell apart last month, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said on Thursday.
A perfect illustration of what happens when you are involved in a con.