The U.S. Secret Service has been shelling out $30,000 a month for the past year to rent a swanky mansion in Malibu, California, so they can be near Hunter Biden, who is under their protection.
The younger Biden has been living in luxury in Malibu, renting out a $20,000 mansion for himself, and in doing so, forcing the Secret Service to expend huge chunks of taxpayer funds to pay for a residence to be near him.
“Typically, wherever a protectee sets up their residence, the Secret Service is forced to find someplace to rent nearby at market value,” said retired senior Secret Service agent Don Mihalek, adding that the Secret Service is renting out properties near Joe Biden’s Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, homes.
Asked directly about the costs associated with providing protection to Hunter, the Secret Service said it can’t comment “due to the need to maintain operational security.”
Hunter’s luxurious lifestyle is coming into focus as prosecutors comb through his business affairs and the probe into his business dealings intensify.
In the past few weeks, a number of witnesses have appeared before a grand jury in Wilmington, Delaware, and have been asked about payments Hunter received while serving on the board of directors for Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which it is alleged his father was involved in.
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6 Responses
1. If the Trump administration had prosecuted Hunter Biden in the 4 years it had to do so, (i) if it had convicted and jailed him, he would be cheaper to protect, and (ii) if it had failed to convict him, this would be of no interest.
2. Trump is receiving rental income from the Secret Service for protecting him at Mar-a-Lego.
3. What (if anything) is the Secret Service paying to protect Trump’s “adult” children? That would be important to put the Hunter Biden costs in perspective.
I guess Burisma is paying well despite the war in Ukraine or because of it.
Interesting. Secret service protection for the trump children cost $1.7 million. Trump had it extended for six months after he left office. Steve Mnuchin, a multi millionaire, cost taxpayers $52,000 last June, no longer in government, for a business trip he took to the mid East.
And yet no one complained about Ivankas secret service detail or the extra 6 months of coverage she and her siblings received after her father changed the rules. There is no higher ground here. Either the children of presidents get the coverage or they don’t. It’s not a pick and choose situation.
> huju
> “If the Trump administration had prosecuted Hunter Biden i”
Who are you kidding? The Trump administration was undermined from within by the leftovers (such as the FBI etc) of the Obama-Biden administrations, and undermined from without by the media and leftists Democrats. And the Hunter Biden laptop was uncovered late in the Presidency (like the end of 2019).
> rental income from the Secret Service
The resort is a business (and it has tax rules), and it is the resort that charges because it has employees and bills to pay that supply services, and, it loses use of the accommodations to rent out to other people. But in terms of personal charges for personal property that is not a business, try the following from businessisider:
> When President Joe Biden was vice president, he charged the Secret Service $2,200 per month to rent a cottage on his Delaware property.
> What (if anything) is the Secret Service paying to protect Trump’s “adult” children?
After 6 months (and now it is past 6 months), the answer is zero. But the cost here that is mentioned for Hunter Biden is only the rent alone and for only protecting one single person. What about the other relatives (including children) of Joe and Jill Biden, and what about the other non-rent costs? The internet loves to lump all the costs (not just rent) for all the children and relatives of Trump and family into one number and then compare that single lump number to the rent alone for only one of the children of the Bidens. So it is not the costs for Trump’s children that is hard to find (I found it) – it is the true entire cost for all of Biden’s children that is not available.
To georgeg: You completely missed the point I was making, and you got some (but not all) facts wrong. I would remake and simplify my point if I thought your mind was open to understanding it.