All things considered, it's going to turn out to be one of the Kushners' more modest offenses. I mean, it really doesn't hold a candle to the perpetual grift; the buddy-buddy with MBS before, during and after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi; the COVID botch; the ongoing enabling of the Destructor in Chief. But not letting the Secret Service agents charged with protecting your family use one of your 6.5 toilets when they needed to go, well, that certainly speaks to character.
Two law enforcement officials said the bathrooms inside the Trump/Kushner home were declared off-limits to the people protecting them from the beginning. One official did not know the reason for this restriction, while the other said it was instigated by the couple. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of security arrangements for the president’s family. (Source: WaPo)
It's certainly in keeping with everything we know about the couple, that's for sure.
White House spokesman Judd Deere denied that Trump and Kushner ever requested that their Secret Service detail not use the bathrooms in their home.
Oh, the White House denies it? Then okay, then. I mean, Judd Deere is no Kayleigh McEnany. He's not even a Sarah Huckabee Sanders. But we've certainly had no evidence whatsoever that info emanating from the White House is anything other than God's honest truth.
Oh, wait. This is the Trump White House we're talking about.
So my money's on the two LEO's who reported that the Kushner bathrooms were off-limits to the help.
The Obamas did not use the garage [where their Secret Service hung out], so the extra traffic to and from the command post caused no problem. Yet this solution, too, was short-lived after a Secret Service supervisor from the Trump/Kushner detail left an unpleasant mess in the Obama bathroom at some point before the fall of 2017, according to a person briefed on the event. That prompted the leaders of the Obama detail to ban the agents up the street from ever returning.Well, ewww to that detail. You almost can't blame Jared and Ivanka. This may have been exactly what they were afraid of. Almost not blame them. Almost.
But it came at a cost to U.S. taxpayers. Since September 2017, the federal government has been spending $3,000 a month — more than $100,000 to date — to rent a basement studio, with a bathroom, from a neighbor of the Kushner family.All the more galling when you consider that the adult children of sitting presidents don't automatically get protection. The president has to request it. And, of course, I'm sure nothing pleased the adult children of Trump more than swanning around with a Secret Service detail, demonstrating their celebrity and self-importance to all.
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