How Much Money Has Donald Trump Made From Charging The Secret Service For Airfare?

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Forbes Staff Writer Zach Everson joins Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the $10.1 million that Donald Trump has charged the Secret Service in airfare.  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript   Stay Connected Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com

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00:00 And the story that we're talking about involves the Secret Service. Tell us about that.

00:06 So the agency has paid the Trump campaign a little bit over $800,000 for airfare so

00:13 far for this election cycle. So we're not talking about any previous the previous two

00:16 campaigns and it owes the Trump campaign another $361,000. And this is all per documentation

00:25 that the Trump campaign itself has filed with the Federal Election Commission. So you can

00:30 just look this up on their website, go to look up Trump campaign expenditures and our

00:36 disbursements or receipts rather, and you can see that the Secret Service has paid this

00:40 money. Now Trump's campaign has in turn paid Tag Air, which is Donald Trump's company that

00:46 manages his airplanes. Airplanes another $4.2 million. So we don't know directly if, you

00:52 know, the 817 the Secret Service has paid, if that's gone to Tag Air. But we certainly

00:58 have seen, you know, the Secret Service has paid the campaign and the campaign has paid

01:03 Trump business.

01:05 And the Secret Service has paid or needs to pay the campaign. You're saying over a million

01:09 dollars just in this election cycle alone.

01:12 So what we still have several months to go.

01:16 What's the precedence here? Has the Secret Service shelled out money for other campaigns

01:20 in the past?

01:21 Yeah, looking back through Federal Election Commission records, saw it as early as 2004

01:28 within Senator John Kerry's campaign. There have been several other campaigns that it's

01:33 paid, but none have taken this much money. You know, all told, Trump's campaign, Trump's

01:39 three presidential campaigns have received about $10.1 million from the Secret Service

01:44 in payments for airfare reimbursements.

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