Swammerdami
Squadron Leader
An unpaid hotel bill could drag Donald Trump’s company back into a major lawsuit over his inauguration expenses, a news report says.
According to the lawsuit, brought by the attorney general of Washington, DC, the 2017 inauguration booked $49,358 worth of rooms at the Loews Madison Hotel. But when the hotel asked the Trump Organization to pay the bill, the company allegedly refused.
A debt collection agency then took up the task of recovering the money, and began pressuring the Trump Org to pay up. In response, the company reportedly arranged for the Presidential Inaugural Committee – a tax-exempt charity – to pay the bill instead. The DC lawsuit says this was inappropriate.
It is striking how petty this self-described "billionaire" is. Proportional to his alleged wealth, a $50k bill is like a $20 tab for most of us, yet he refused to pay; and then arranged to pay it illegally. This despite that Ivanka and other family members "earned" hundreds of millions during the 4-year tenure.
What really struck me, several years ago, was to read about a $7 donation made to the Boy Scouts of America by the "non-profit" Trump Foundation. That's right: $7, not $700. The "donation" was made the same year Don Junior became a Boy Scout, for which the membership fee is ... $7.
The White House is full of heirlooms donated over the decades by visiting heads of state. Have they done a careful inventory to list the heirlooms pilfered by the Trumps?