President Donald Trump has opened the Office of the Former President. Apparently the Office was set up yesterday in Palm Beach County, Florida.
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One of the first news outlets to report this yesterday was the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. It’s been widely reported on today by mid-sized media outlets and few large mainstream sources. For some reason the Sun-Sentinel removed their article (not politically correct to talk about Trump? Or did their employees demand that it be taken down?). Here’s a cache of the article which was all that was left today, fortunately the Wayback Machine was able to copy and save the cache:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210126235538/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A3NRuvVx_JbAJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.sun-sentinel.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Ffl-ne-trump-new-office-20210126-odrs57btrndzthowc7ucditefu-story.html+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=do
Explainer: Why Trump’s post-presidency perks, like a pension and office, are safe for the rest of his life
Reuters.com
by Jan Wolfe
Jan. 27, 2021
Excerpt:
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It is a law, enacted in 1958, that provides lifetime benefits to former presidents. The benefits include a “suitable office space,” Secret Service protection, around $100,000 per year to help cover the cost of a staff and a pension currently worth around $220,000 per year.
The law was enacted to provide financial relief to former President Harry Truman, who left office in 1953 facing debts from unsuccessful business ventures that predated his time in office.
For Trump, the annual value of these benefits will likely exceed $1 million. Each year, U.S. taxpayers spend about $4 million to provide perks to the four living former presidents, according to a report by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, a government spending watchdog.
The most valuable perk is the office space. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama each had more than $500,000 in office rent covered by taxpayers in 2020, according to the report.
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Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-benefits-explai-idUSKBN29W238
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