DONALD Trump Jr has cost taxpayers “at least $75,000 from his controversial Mongolia hunting trip to slay the world’s largest sheep.”
Documents obtained by Citizens for Ethics show that the president’s son’s eight-day trip in August 2019 cost taxpayers $76,859.36.
This cost included an initially reported $17,704.96 in Secret Service charges – which included $15,999.84 for the Marmara International LLC camping service and another $1,705.12 on unnamed resources.
Additional records showed that an extra $12,025 was spent on the security’s stay at Shangri-la Hotel in Ulaanbaatar and $1,927.62 on expenses like phones and cars.
The trip also included Don Jr’s stop in Ulaanbaatar where he met privately with the Mongolian president, the outlet reported.
Before the extensive costs were announced, the trip already sparked controversy as Don Jr was awarded a permit to hunt an endangered argali sheep after he had already killed it, ProPublica reported.
The outlet reported that Trump Jr also denied to answer questions about his meeting with the Mongolian president.
Citizens for Ethics also reported that a Treasury Department budget document showed that the Trump family is taking 12 times as many trips protected by the Secret Service than former president Barack Obama’s did.
This translates to roughly one thousand more trips on average per year.
