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POTUS and FLOTUS are required to fly via the Air Force for security reasons.
FLOTUS is accompanied by her parents and unpaid aids and SS.
Someone is onboard ironing her disembarkation outfit, doing her hair and make-up.
Just like Michelle Obama. Thanks for reminding everyone. At least Melania's parents don't live in the White House like Michelle's mama did.
What did Bill and Hillary do? For that matter, what did most of the previous presidents do, with the notable exceptions of Republican presidents Bush(both) and Reagan? Is there White House protocol for that? You seem well versed in that sort of thing, dear.
Hahahahaha.
Too predictable, you just couldn’t help but deflect to bill and Hillary.
Face it, Trump’s marriage is a sham at best; any unbiased observer would admit to said fact.
Just like Michelle Obama. Thanks for reminding everyone. At least Melania's parents don't live in the White House like Michelle's mama did.
At least Michelle's mother was a U.S. citizen. Melania's parents got here through chain migration, something you guys pretend to find abhorrent--unless it's this First Lady's family. Then it's A-Okay.
I think Trump should pay for Melania's travel back and forth to Maralago, as it is so often--the taxpayers should not have to shoulder he lifestyle and according to Trump, he can afford it.. If Michelle used Air Force One every weekend to go off on jaunts, Obama would have been pilloried and possibly investigated by Gowdy or Chaffetz.
But, honestly, would you rather be in cold dreary Washington DC with a fat boring old guy in his 70s, who is not even respected by half of his staff, or be on the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach where it is a beautiful sunny 75 degrees?
At least Michelle's mother was a U.S. citizen. Melania's parents got here through chain migration, something you guys pretend to find abhorrent--unless it's this First Lady's family. Then it's A-Okay.
I guess you didn't know that Trump did not create the chain migration policy but he wants to end it. For all you know that may be why -- he couldn't think of an excuse to prevent his in-laws from moving here.
Old habits die hard. Pelosi has been using the military as her personal airline for years.
The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), include internal DOD email correspondence which show:
In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, “Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi’s team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?…[T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case’…” The email also notes that Pelosi’s office had, “a history of canceling many of their past requests.”
One DOD official complained about the “hidden costs” associated with the speaker’s last minute changes and cancellations. “We have…folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc.”
The documents include a discussion of House Ethics rules and Defense Department policies as they apply to the speaker’s requests for staff, spouses and extended family to accompany her on military aircraft. In May 2008, for example, Pelosi requested that her husband join her on a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) into Iraq. The DOD explained to Pelosi that the agency has a written policy prohibiting spouses from joining CODEL’s into combat zones.
Old habits die hard. Pelosi has been using the military as her personal airline for years.
The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), include internal DOD email correspondence which show:
In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, “Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi’s team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?…[T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case’…” The email also notes that Pelosi’s office had, “a history of canceling many of their past requests.”
One DOD official complained about the “hidden costs” associated with the speaker’s last minute changes and cancellations. “We have…folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc.”
The documents include a discussion of House Ethics rules and Defense Department policies as they apply to the speaker’s requests for staff, spouses and extended family to accompany her on military aircraft. In May 2008, for example, Pelosi requested that her husband join her on a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) into Iraq. The DOD explained to Pelosi that the agency has a written policy prohibiting spouses from joining CODEL’s into combat zones.
Pelosi is working for us. What do you have on the costs Melania has racked up traveling on the tax payer dime? Remember when she flew to Mar a lago for a spa treatment?
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The two-hour trip, aboard a C-32A plane, from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Palm Beach International Airport, cost $16,168 per hour, the Times said, citing Department of Defense figures. That brings the total round-trip travel costs to around $64,600, based on those figures.
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