This really ticks me off!
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Remember how earlier this month failed Democrat presidential nominee and loser Hillary Clinton traveled to India to talk garbage about half of America?
As noted by Katherine Timpf over at National Review, Clinton “basically called half the country racist” and “basically characterized women who voted for Trump as thoughtless vacuums for their husband’s opinions rather than as actual human beings.”
Charming woman.
Unfortunately, because Clinton is a former First Lady, she gets to benefit from “U.S. Secret Service protection for life,” including while on trips, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
And since we the American people fund the Secret Service (whose members themselves have certainly never been a fan of Clinton), this in turn means WE essentially paid for her to travel to India and talk garbage.
We paid “at least $22,000,” to be precise:
[T]he State Department awarded two contracts worth $16,143 and $6,301 for her security detail’s travel and lodging on the trip.
The contracts do not name Clinton but say they are awarded for the Secret Service to “support FFLOTUS,” an acronym used for former first ladies, on a March 2018 trip to India. The contract was awarded by the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, which operates under the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.
Both contracts are for “logistic services for USSS to support FFLOTUS visit” and say they are for “travel/lodging.”
It is unclear whether the two contracts account for all of the government spending related to Clinton’s India trip.
Two other contracts, one worth $21,093 and another worth $23,690, were awarded by the American Consulate in Mumbai for March hotel reservations for Secret Service agents in Mumbai and Maheshwar, another town Clinton visited on her trip.
I’m not certain why the $21,093 and $23,690 cited at the end weren’t included in the Beacon’s total estimate. If you combine all four values ($16,143, $6,301, $21,093 and $23,690), you get a total of $67,227 of our money wasted to fund Clinton’s bitchfest.
And because of our government’s misguided commitment to treating former presidents and their families like lifelong rock stars, this likely won’t be the last time we pay for Clinton talk shit.
Annoying!
H/T TheBlaze