The Trump Hotel: A Pipeline for Presidential Patronage and Profits

Reporting cited here

1. documented

   House Democratic staff found that U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft paid $1,395 for one night at Donald Trump's Washington hotel during a 2018 conference, nearly three times the federal per-diem lodging rate.

   Kelly Craft case study and hotel folio analysis

   Ambassador Kelly Craft paid $1,395 for one night at Trump's hotel · Historical official-linked stay documented in hotel records

2. documented

   House Democratic staff found that Richard Grenell spent nearly $10,000 for nineteen nights at Donald Trump's Washington hotel from 2017 through 2019, about half before his Senate confirmation as ambassador.

   Richard Grenell case study and hotel folio analysis

   Richard Grenell spent nearly $10,000 at Trump's hotel · Historical official-linked stays documented in hotel records

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   House Oversight Democratic staff's October 2024 report totals $70,735 in Secret Service room expenditures at Trump's Washington hotel in 11 months from September 2017 through August 2018, excluding July 2018. The total deducts $6,431 in apparent refunds. It covers room charges identified in the Mazars records, not meals, incidental charges or all agency spending at Trump properties.

   Page 3: period excludes July 2018; page 15 and footnote 38: $70,735 net of $6,431 apparent refunds.

   DC hotel records document $70,735 in net Secret Service room spending · Disclosed historical financial observation