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Taxpayers forking out $160K this fiscal year for Donald Trump to “rent” office space in his own building

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The week after Trump took the Midnight Special out of DC a year ago last January, he set up his own Office of the Former President in Palm Beach, Florida, presumably in one of the buildings the “real estate tycoon” [snicker] owns — or perhaps “owns,” da? — in that locality.

Perusing the General Services Administration budgetary requests for the current fiscal year I notice that the U.S. government is paying $160,000 to enable Trump to “rent” his own property, so he can go about his former presidenting in the style to which he has become accustomed.

Frankly I’m surprised the number is this low, although of course it should be zero (The GSA requested $118,000 for Jimmy Carter’s office rent, $542,000 for Dubya’s, $563,000 for Obama’s, and $612,000 for Clinton’s. Somebody should let Trump know how badly he’s getting ripped off).

All in all the government will be spending just under a million bucks on supporting Trump this fiscal year NOT COUNTING SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION for him and the rest of his evil brood.

These numbers just underline what a ridiculous law the Former Presidents Act has always been, born as it was out of Harry Truman’s shameless fabrications regarding his supposedly difficult post-presidential financial circumstances (TL;DR: Truman was very rich when he left the White House, in part because he, um, “misappropriated” a big ‘ol pile of “expense account” money, and he got a lot richer by exploiting his presidential fame at the very time he was whinging to Congress about how difficult it was for a simple old country farmer to limp along without a regular job any more etc.)

As bad as the law’s genesis was, Trump as is his speciality is cranking up the petty corruption to 11, by “renting” property he already owns, and passing along the bill to We the suckers People. And I expect that rental number to go way up next year, when people might not be paying as much attention. But I’ll be there (reach out).

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