Trump’s Kids, Former Officials Received Extra Secret Service Costing Taxpayers $1.7 Million

Former presidents and their spouses are given Secret Service protection for life, and rightly so.

Once leaving office, the president doesn’t stop being a public figure and a possible target of violence.

Children of a former president who are under 16 years of age are also given protection.

But former President Donald Trump took it a step further when he left office, giving six months of Secret Service protection to his adult children, their spouses and three former officials, The Washington Post reported.

That cost taxpayers $1.7 million.

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and George W. Bush did order agents to protect college-aged children for a short time after leaving office, WaPo reported.

But Trump took the unprecedented step of extending Secret Service protection for former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien, as well as his adult children.

Mnuchin visited Israel in June “to scout investments for his new company, then flew to Qatar for a conference,” WaPo reported.

The agents followed Mnuchin across the Middle East, with taxpayers picking up the tab for the $3,000-each plane tickets, and $11,000 for rooms at Qatar’s luxe St. Regis Doha.

The coverage for “a multimillionaire on a business trip” as WaPo put it, cost taxpayers more than $52,000.

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