Daily Beast: “The Secret Service is spending nearly $35,000 to rent portable toilets for the next four months in Bedminster, New Jersey – where former President Donald Trump is reportedly summering – according to federal procurement data reviewed by The Daily Beast. ‘BATHROOM TRAILERS BEDMINSTER,’ the expenditure states. ‘A NOTICE TO PROCEED WAS GIVEN ON MAY 24, 2021.’ The contract will run through Sept. 30, which works out to rental costs of about $8,500 per month. Imperial Restrooms of Saugerties, New York, is supplying the rolling commodes.”
“Trump moved in late May from his winter digs at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, to his Bedminster golf club, sources told CNN. He will reside there until early fall, the outlet reported, citing a senior member of Trump’s team. On May 22, Trump appeared at a fundraiser at the Bedminster club for Make America Great Again Action, a pro-Trump super PAC run by former campaign manager and longtime adviser Corey Lewandowski. Tickets for the dinner and reception reportedly started at $250,000. ‘Even now, taxpayers continue to spend many thousands of dollars to facilitate Donald Trump’s businesses,’ Noah Bookbinder, executive director of watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a former federal prosecutor, told The Daily Beast. ‘He is of course entitled to protection, but from the beginning, it has been about his advancement and convenience, rather than what is good for the country. Forcing taxpayers to spend all of this money for porta potties at a business that surely has sufficient bathrooms is confounding.’ The Secret Service did not respond to a request for comment by The Daily Beast.”