Average Trump hotel rates are down since his inauguration. I guess people don’t travel much and realize that when a Hotel has only a few rooms left (say a $25000 a night suite) that the average price will be distorted. When I was younger I drove to Vegas without booking a room figuring I would get one when I arrived. I didn’t realize there was some conference and the only rooms available were $1200 a night. I slept in my car that night.
Not what happened here, 13x the average rate is not remotely believable. This is straightforward pay-to-play being laundered through the hotel.
Nonsense. Show how all the attendees paid $6700 a night. Otherwise it’s more fake news from fake newsies.
Between you and snark etc. the boldness of the naked stupidity/fantasy thinking you guys exhibit is really getting worse. The source is the pubicized room rates. If there was an IT problem submitting bad data than that could explain it except similar is reported as happening on 4th July etc. "“While the least expensive room for a one-night stay at the hotel was around $500 on surrounding days, the cheapest room on December 14 was a whopping $6,719. Lucky donors who managed to snag a room were also invited to the White House’s holiday open house, meaning that the cost of a room at Trump’s DC Hotel and donations towards his reelection included exclusive political access for the buyer.” " Why not just donate directly to the campaign for this access? Is it enough of a degree of separation to not count as a campaign donation? I don't know but either way, paying his hotel is paying him. "Lucky donors who managed to snag a room were also invited to the White House’s holiday open house, meaning that the cost of a room at Trump’s DC Hotel and donations towards his reelection included exclusive political access for the buyer.” 3x, maybe 4x, not 13x.
Trump speaks at swank GOP fundraiser, his DC hotel profits By MICHAEL BIESECKER, BRIAN SLODYSKO and ASHRAF KHALILDecember 19, 2019 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump took the stage in the ballroom of his luxury hotel in Washington on Saturday night, just days before an impeachment vote, to rail against his political rivals as a crowd of high-dollar Republican donors and party activists cheered. In the weeks leading up to the invitation-only event, advertised rates for a standard room at the Trump International Hotel surged to as high as $6,719 — more than a dozen times the posted price for rooms on other weekends. Even at the sky-high prices, the website for Trump’s hotel indicated last week that all 263 guest rooms and suites were booked. Ethics watchdogs have long pointed to Trump’s landmark D.C. hotel, housed in a leased federal building just down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, as emblematic of how the president mixes his elected office with his family’s business interests. The Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment this week about whether hotel managers hiked room rates to profit from the president’s appearance. Trump says he turned management of his business interests over to his two adult sons after he won election in 2016, but he has retained ownership of the company and rebuffed calls to place his assets in a blind trust, as past presidents have. Last weekend’s winter retreat for Trump Victory, the joint fundraising committee for the president’s reelection campaign and Republican National Committee, attracted more than 600 attendees from across the country. In addition to Trump’s speech, guests were treated to a luncheon with Vice President Mike Pence and remarks from Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Attendees were also offered tickets for holiday tours of the White House and provided a copy of Donald Trump Jr.’s recently released book, “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.” The book by the president’s eldest son briefly occupied the coveted top spot on the New York Times Bestseller List last month, propelled in part by bulk purchases. RNC spokesman Steve Guest told AP last month it had been offering the book as a fundraising incentive, a common practice for political books. Both the White House and the RNC said Saturday’s event was a fundraiser, though the RNC declined to say how much money was raised. Several donors who were in attendance said it was primarily a celebration for those who had already given major sums. “If you’re a major donor to the party and the RNC’s Trump Victory campaign fund, then you get invited,” said Doug Deason, a Texas businessman and GOP donor, who along with his father, Darwin, has spent at least $2.2 million supporting Trump. Since Trump’s 2016 win, committees tied to his reelection campaign have spent a minimum of $4 million at his hotels and restaurants on lodging, meals, events, catering and other expenses, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records. His Washington hotel has taken in the most, reaping a minimum of $1.7 million during that period. While the events last weekend have not been reported to the FEC yet, over $320,000 has been spent by those committees at the property so far this year, the analysis shows. The totals include spending by the RNC and other entities officially connected to his reelection effort, as well as spending by America First Action, the Trump’s campaign’s sanctioned super PAC. Virginia Canter, a lawyer for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said there appears to be little separation between the president’s political machine and his business empire. “The Trump presidency and campaign have served almost as another arm of the Trump Organization,” said Canter, the chief ethics counsel for CREW. “When Trump’s D.C. hotel fills up for political events, the president is benefitting twice — money is going to both support his reelection and support his bottom line.” While some rooms at the hotel were advertised at more than $6,000 in the lead-up to the Trump Victory retreat, Deason said a block of rooms set aside for some attendees were available at preferable rates. “It was pretty well sold out. As long as they made the block, it was as low as $375 a night,” said Deason. Still he acknowledged that the hotel has charged high rates in the past, including during Trump’s inauguration. “The hotel got a premium then,” he said. Alabama donor William McFarland said he didn’t hear anyone complaining about the cost of rooms. “In order to be invited you have to be obviously a major donor to the RNC. But there was no hard sell — it’s just an annual dinner they have,” said McFarland. That said, he found a cheaper place to stay elsewhere. “If I was going to pay that kind of money for any hotel room, I’d rather just give it to the RNC,” McFarland said. An RNC official declined to comment specifically on the cost of rooms at the Trump Hotel, how much money was raised through the weekend’s events or to give details on any perks offered to donors. The official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters, said many donors prefer to stay at the Trump Hotel. But the person added that other factors like security and convenience were part of the decision to hold the event at Trump’s Washington hotel. Those attending the Trump Victory retreat said they were discouraged from posting about it on social media and those at the Saturday night gala had their phones locked in individual bags by security personnel to prevent them from taking photos or making recordings. An Associated Press reporter saw tight security for the event, with a long line of police cars and vans parked in front of the hotel along Pennsylvania Avenue. Uniformed Secret Service officers guarded the approaches to the ballroom where the president was speaking, with only the sharply dressed GOP donors wearing special credentials dangling from neck lanyards allowed to pass. Inside the gilded ballroom, the well-heeled guests sipped Trump-branded wines and were feted with a main course of pan-seared sea scallops and filet mignon, according to a menu reviewed by AP. Bridget Melson, a Texas psychologist who attended the gala, said she didn’t see anything wrong with the president’s reelection effort hosting an event at his family’s business. “I would definitely want to have a dinner at my hotel, if I had one,” she said. “It just makes sense.” https://apnews.com/baf440eb06883e4e6b5badebcecdec0c
Say something... they say fake news..prove it. say facts they change the subject. Facts are like kryptonite to them..
They will believe some Right wing racist Facebook spin on Muslim people getting whipped on the Austrian- Italian border, and find it titillating, but cold hard facts don’t compute with their confirmation bias. I don’t know how they trade profitably with that mind set.
I do wonder if they are actually serving his wines or good wines in his bottles? The "New World Reserve" 2013 is $23 a bottle direct and seems best and most believably described as a "good pizza wine" wading though reviews with a lot of bias of course. Here is a more professional review and one of the higher rated ones. https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/we-tried-some-bottles-from-donald-trumps-virginia-winery/
Interesting. Trump probably put the wine list together. He doesn’t drink but I imagine he has studied wine and knows more than anyone he knows about wine. His favorite colored wine is orange I believe... Guests were lucky to get pan seared scallops and filet mignon. They could’ve walked in on this...
Biden leased a guest house to the Secret Service detail guarding him. I'm sure it was at least as above board as anything else he did. There is nothing illegal or improper about Trump having an event at his hotel. These are private individuals, not government employees.