How Much Did Obuma's Hawaiian Trip Cost You?

[Vigilante]

Ni66ER RICH, really DOES have a meaning with this ass clown!

Obama Family Vacation Breaks the Bank at Taxpayer Expense

I hope your Christmas and holiday season has been wonderful. The Christmas holidays are a busy time of year for Judicial Watch because corrupt politicians and bureaucrats often leak embarrassing scandal information during a time when many Americans aren’t focused on the news (and many reporters are on vacation). Sure enough, we received a Christmas document dump from the Secret Service about Obama’s travel costs. If the hope was to bury the information, it failed, as our JW team got the word out and gained headlines across the globe.

How would you like to vacation in Hawaii on the taxpayer dime every Christmas? Would your employer give you a nearly three-week break to do so? Barack Obama and his family vacation every year in Hawaii – and now we have more of the outrageous costs you incur for his time in Hawaii.

This week we received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expense records bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33.

The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch. The records were mailed to us on December 22, but it took the U.S. Postal Service six days to deliver them a few miles across town to our offices on December 28.

The heavily redacted records were in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:

• $91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid
• $224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals

The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.

Saying he was “eager to skip town” Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As detailed at the time by The Washington Post:

The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state’s most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.

For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends — and, yes, perfecting his golf game.

Obama is right now in Hawaii on another Christmas vacation. His golf games must be the most expensive in history.

In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for the 2013 Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).

This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama’s security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.

Our efforts investigating Obama travel began back in 2009 when we obtained the Secret Service costs of the Obama’s “date night” in New York City.

Click here for our various Obama travel exposés.

Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch. The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.

It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama’s luxury Christmas vacation. The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama’s 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060.

It is nice to know that Obama’s “tradition” of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.....

How Much Did Obama Hawaii Trip Cost You? - Judicial Watch

 

[leftwinger]

$10 mil per day. Like always. Many staff. pre-staff. post-staff. on-site staff. off-site staff. dog groomer. ya know.

 

[pwjohn]

How much does it cost to drive the presidential barge from DC to Hawaii ?

And, can they get there on a single tank of gas?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"How Much Did Obuma's Hawaiian Trip Cost You?"

Of all the stupidity that comes from the right, of all the more moronic manifestations of ODS, this is among the most stupid and moronic.

 

[eagle1462010]

Camp David would be cheaper.........

 

[leftwinger]

$20T debt. Stay home. Go thru budget line by line with dumbo. Cut spending.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Needless to say, if Obama took no vacations at all, republicans would whine about that as well.

 

[eagle1462010]

Needless to say, if Obama took no vacations at all, republicans would whine about that as well.

That depends............Maybe we want him to go on vacation for the next year.................That would be a hoot.........

 

[DGS49]

Judicial Watch must be having a slow day. This is a total non-story. The President doesn't request Secret Service protection, or to travel with a giant entourage, it's part of the job.

Here's one Republican who welcomes every day this jag-off is on the links. I don't care what it costs; it minimizes the harm.

 

[Syriusly]

Ni66ER RICH, really DOES have a meaning with this ass clown!

Obama Family Vacation Breaks the Bank at Taxpayer Expense

I hope your Christmas and holiday season has been wonderful. The Christmas holidays are a busy time of year for Judicial Watch because corrupt politicians and bureaucrats often leak embarrassing scandal information during a time when many Americans aren’t focused on the news (and many reporters are on vacation). Sure enough, we received a Christmas document dump from the Secret Service about Obama’s travel costs. If the hope was to bury the information, it failed, as our JW team got the word out and gained headlines across the globe.

How would you like to vacation in Hawaii on the taxpayer dime every Christmas? Would your employer give you a nearly three-week break to do so? Barack Obama and his family vacation every year in Hawaii – and now we have more of the outrageous costs you incur for his time in Hawaii.

This week we received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expense records bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33.

The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch. The records were mailed to us on December 22, but it took the U.S. Postal Service six days to deliver them a few miles across town to our offices on December 28.

The heavily redacted records were in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:

• $91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid
• $224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals

The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.

Saying he was “eager to skip town” Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As detailed at the time by The Washington Post:

The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state’s most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.

For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends — and, yes, perfecting his golf game.

Obama is right now in Hawaii on another Christmas vacation. His golf games must be the most expensive in history.

In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for the 2013 Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).

This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama’s security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.

Our efforts investigating Obama travel began back in 2009 when we obtained the Secret Service costs of the Obama’s “date night” in New York City.

Click here for our various Obama travel exposés.

Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch. The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.

It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama’s luxury Christmas vacation. The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama’s 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060.

It is nice to know that Obama’s “tradition” of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.....

How Much Did Obama Hawaii Trip Cost You? - Judicial Watch

I fully expect Vigilante and the rest of those 'outraged' by Obama's vacations while in office to be of course just as outraged by Trump's vacation. How many millions will the 'hard working tax paying citizens of the United States many of whom don't even get vacation' have to pay?
It is nice to know that Trump's tradition of Christmas vacations in Florida comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.
Donald Trump Planning To Start A 16-Day Vacation At Mar-A-Lago The Same Day The Government Would Shut Down

Just to be truly honest- I don't expect any of those Birthers and Obama attackers or any of those who attacked Obama for his vacations to give a damn about the taxpayer money spent on Trump's vacations. That would require honesty and integrity.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Ni66ER RICH, really DOES have a meaning with this ass clown!

Obama Family Vacation Breaks the Bank at Taxpayer Expense

I hope your Christmas and holiday season has been wonderful. The Christmas holidays are a busy time of year for Judicial Watch because corrupt politicians and bureaucrats often leak embarrassing scandal information during a time when many Americans aren’t focused on the news (and many reporters are on vacation). Sure enough, we received a Christmas document dump from the Secret Service about Obama’s travel costs. If the hope was to bury the information, it failed, as our JW team got the word out and gained headlines across the globe.

How would you like to vacation in Hawaii on the taxpayer dime every Christmas? Would your employer give you a nearly three-week break to do so? Barack Obama and his family vacation every year in Hawaii – and now we have more of the outrageous costs you incur for his time in Hawaii.

This week we received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expense records bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33.

The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch. The records were mailed to us on December 22, but it took the U.S. Postal Service six days to deliver them a few miles across town to our offices on December 28.

The heavily redacted records were in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:

• $91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid
• $224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals

The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.

Saying he was “eager to skip town” Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As detailed at the time by The Washington Post:

The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state’s most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.

For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends — and, yes, perfecting his golf game.

Obama is right now in Hawaii on another Christmas vacation. His golf games must be the most expensive in history.

In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for the 2013 Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).

This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama’s security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.

Our efforts investigating Obama travel began back in 2009 when we obtained the Secret Service costs of the Obama’s “date night” in New York City.

Click here for our various Obama travel exposés.

Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch. The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.

It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama’s luxury Christmas vacation. The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama’s 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060.

It is nice to know that Obama’s “tradition” of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.....

How Much Did Obama Hawaii Trip Cost You? - Judicial Watch

I fully expect Vigilante and the rest of those 'outraged' by Obama's vacations while in office to be of course just as outraged by Trump's vacation. How many millions will the 'hard working tax paying citizens of the United States many of whom don't even get vacation' have to pay?
It is nice to know that Trump's tradition of Christmas vacations in Florida comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.
Donald Trump Planning To Start A 16-Day Vacation At Mar-A-Lago The Same Day The Government Would Shut Down

Just to be truly honest- I don't expect any of those Birthers and Obama attackers or any of those who attacked Obama for his vacations to give a damn about the taxpayer money spent on Trump's vacations. That would require honesty and integrity.

The details surrounding vacations and leisure spending by presidents are no longer a concern of USMB "conservatives".

It's all good. Being president is a demanding job. And the office holder must be free to relax whenever and wherever he pleases.

 

[candycorn]

Ni66ER RICH, really DOES have a meaning with this ass clown!

Obama Family Vacation Breaks the Bank at Taxpayer Expense

I hope your Christmas and holiday season has been wonderful. The Christmas holidays are a busy time of year for Judicial Watch because corrupt politicians and bureaucrats often leak embarrassing scandal information during a time when many Americans aren’t focused on the news (and many reporters are on vacation). Sure enough, we received a Christmas document dump from the Secret Service about Obama’s travel costs. If the hope was to bury the information, it failed, as our JW team got the word out and gained headlines across the globe.

How would you like to vacation in Hawaii on the taxpayer dime every Christmas? Would your employer give you a nearly three-week break to do so? Barack Obama and his family vacation every year in Hawaii – and now we have more of the outrageous costs you incur for his time in Hawaii.

This week we received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expense records bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33.

The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch. The records were mailed to us on December 22, but it took the U.S. Postal Service six days to deliver them a few miles across town to our offices on December 28.

The heavily redacted records were in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:

• $91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid
• $224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals

The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.

Saying he was “eager to skip town” Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As detailed at the time by The Washington Post:

The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state’s most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.

For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends — and, yes, perfecting his golf game.

Obama is right now in Hawaii on another Christmas vacation. His golf games must be the most expensive in history.

In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for the 2013 Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).

This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama’s security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.

Our efforts investigating Obama travel began back in 2009 when we obtained the Secret Service costs of the Obama’s “date night” in New York City.

Click here for our various Obama travel exposés.

Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch. The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.

It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama’s luxury Christmas vacation. The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama’s 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060.

It is nice to know that Obama’s “tradition” of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.....

How Much Did Obama Hawaii Trip Cost You? - Judicial Watch

I fully expect Vigilante and the rest of those 'outraged' by Obama's vacations while in office to be of course just as outraged by Trump's vacation. How many millions will the 'hard working tax paying citizens of the United States many of whom don't even get vacation' have to pay?
It is nice to know that Trump's tradition of Christmas vacations in Florida comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.
Donald Trump Planning To Start A 16-Day Vacation At Mar-A-Lago The Same Day The Government Would Shut Down

Just to be truly honest- I don't expect any of those Birthers and Obama attackers or any of those who attacked Obama for his vacations to give a damn about the taxpayer money spent on Trump's vacations. That would require honesty and integrity.

The details surrounding vacations and leisure spending by presidents are no longer a concern of USMB "conservatives".

It's all good. Being president is a demanding job. And the office holder must be free to relax whenever and wherever he pleases.

That’s true. I wish the entire topic would just go away.

Until then; that 90,000 hotel bill ran up by Melanianaana or whatever her name is….lol

 

[LoneLaugher]

Ni66ER RICH, really DOES have a meaning with this ass clown!

Obama Family Vacation Breaks the Bank at Taxpayer Expense

I hope your Christmas and holiday season has been wonderful. The Christmas holidays are a busy time of year for Judicial Watch because corrupt politicians and bureaucrats often leak embarrassing scandal information during a time when many Americans aren’t focused on the news (and many reporters are on vacation). Sure enough, we received a Christmas document dump from the Secret Service about Obama’s travel costs. If the hope was to bury the information, it failed, as our JW team got the word out and gained headlines across the globe.

How would you like to vacation in Hawaii on the taxpayer dime every Christmas? Would your employer give you a nearly three-week break to do so? Barack Obama and his family vacation every year in Hawaii – and now we have more of the outrageous costs you incur for his time in Hawaii.

This week we received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expense records bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33.

The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch. The records were mailed to us on December 22, but it took the U.S. Postal Service six days to deliver them a few miles across town to our offices on December 28.

The heavily redacted records were in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:

• $91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid
• $224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals

The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.

Saying he was “eager to skip town” Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As detailed at the time by The Washington Post:

The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state’s most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.

For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends — and, yes, perfecting his golf game.

Obama is right now in Hawaii on another Christmas vacation. His golf games must be the most expensive in history.

In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for the 2013 Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).

This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama’s security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.

Our efforts investigating Obama travel began back in 2009 when we obtained the Secret Service costs of the Obama’s “date night” in New York City.

Click here for our various Obama travel exposés.

Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch. The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.

It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama’s luxury Christmas vacation. The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama’s 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060.

It is nice to know that Obama’s “tradition” of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.....

How Much Did Obama Hawaii Trip Cost You? - Judicial Watch

I fully expect Vigilante and the rest of those 'outraged' by Obama's vacations while in office to be of course just as outraged by Trump's vacation. How many millions will the 'hard working tax paying citizens of the United States many of whom don't even get vacation' have to pay?
It is nice to know that Trump's tradition of Christmas vacations in Florida comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.
Donald Trump Planning To Start A 16-Day Vacation At Mar-A-Lago The Same Day The Government Would Shut Down

Just to be truly honest- I don't expect any of those Birthers and Obama attackers or any of those who attacked Obama for his vacations to give a damn about the taxpayer money spent on Trump's vacations. That would require honesty and integrity.

The details surrounding vacations and leisure spending by presidents are no longer a concern of USMB "conservatives".

It's all good. Being president is a demanding job. And the office holder must be free to relax whenever and wherever he pleases.

That’s true. I wish the entire topic would just go away.

Until then; that 90,000 hotel bill ran up by Melanianaana or whatever her name is….lol

My tongue was practically poking through my cheek when I typed that last paragraph.

The topic is legit. Trump is a grifter.

 

[candycorn]

Ni66ER RICH, really DOES have a meaning with this ass clown!

Obama Family Vacation Breaks the Bank at Taxpayer Expense

I hope your Christmas and holiday season has been wonderful. The Christmas holidays are a busy time of year for Judicial Watch because corrupt politicians and bureaucrats often leak embarrassing scandal information during a time when many Americans aren’t focused on the news (and many reporters are on vacation). Sure enough, we received a Christmas document dump from the Secret Service about Obama’s travel costs. If the hope was to bury the information, it failed, as our JW team got the word out and gained headlines across the globe.

How would you like to vacation in Hawaii on the taxpayer dime every Christmas? Would your employer give you a nearly three-week break to do so? Barack Obama and his family vacation every year in Hawaii – and now we have more of the outrageous costs you incur for his time in Hawaii.

This week we received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expense records bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33.

The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch. The records were mailed to us on December 22, but it took the U.S. Postal Service six days to deliver them a few miles across town to our offices on December 28.

The heavily redacted records were in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:

• $91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid
• $224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals

The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.

Saying he was “eager to skip town” Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As detailed at the time by The Washington Post:

The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state’s most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.

For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends — and, yes, perfecting his golf game.

Obama is right now in Hawaii on another Christmas vacation. His golf games must be the most expensive in history.

In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for the 2013 Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).

This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama’s security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.

Our efforts investigating Obama travel began back in 2009 when we obtained the Secret Service costs of the Obama’s “date night” in New York City.

Click here for our various Obama travel exposés.

Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch. The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.

It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama’s luxury Christmas vacation. The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama’s 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060.

It is nice to know that Obama’s “tradition” of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.....

How Much Did Obama Hawaii Trip Cost You? - Judicial Watch

I fully expect Vigilante and the rest of those 'outraged' by Obama's vacations while in office to be of course just as outraged by Trump's vacation. How many millions will the 'hard working tax paying citizens of the United States many of whom don't even get vacation' have to pay?
It is nice to know that Trump's tradition of Christmas vacations in Florida comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.
Donald Trump Planning To Start A 16-Day Vacation At Mar-A-Lago The Same Day The Government Would Shut Down

Just to be truly honest- I don't expect any of those Birthers and Obama attackers or any of those who attacked Obama for his vacations to give a damn about the taxpayer money spent on Trump's vacations. That would require honesty and integrity.

The details surrounding vacations and leisure spending by presidents are no longer a concern of USMB "conservatives".

It's all good. Being president is a demanding job. And the office holder must be free to relax whenever and wherever he pleases.

That’s true. I wish the entire topic would just go away.

Until then; that 90,000 hotel bill ran up by Melanianaana or whatever her name is….lol

My tongue was practically poking through my cheek when I typed that last paragraph.

The topic is legit. Trump is a grifter.

Yeah, when a President relaxes by going skiing at Breckenridge or visiting the Grand Canyon or LegoLand, I’ll believe that the president whomever she/he is….is NOT a grifter. The Obama’s flew to Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard because they could for a greatly reduced costs. Just like the Trumps are doing and just like most other Presidents of my life have done.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Ni66ER RICH, really DOES have a meaning with this ass clown!

Obama Family Vacation Breaks the Bank at Taxpayer Expense

I hope your Christmas and holiday season has been wonderful. The Christmas holidays are a busy time of year for Judicial Watch because corrupt politicians and bureaucrats often leak embarrassing scandal information during a time when many Americans aren’t focused on the news (and many reporters are on vacation). Sure enough, we received a Christmas document dump from the Secret Service about Obama’s travel costs. If the hope was to bury the information, it failed, as our JW team got the word out and gained headlines across the globe.

How would you like to vacation in Hawaii on the taxpayer dime every Christmas? Would your employer give you a nearly three-week break to do so? Barack Obama and his family vacation every year in Hawaii – and now we have more of the outrageous costs you incur for his time in Hawaii.

This week we received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expense records bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33.

The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch. The records were mailed to us on December 22, but it took the U.S. Postal Service six days to deliver them a few miles across town to our offices on December 28.

The heavily redacted records were in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to the records:

• $91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid
• $224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals

The documents are heavily redacted and the Secret Service is withholding 28 pages in their entirety.

Saying he was “eager to skip town” Obama took his family to Honolulu on December 20, 2013, for a 17-day Christmas vacation. As detailed at the time by The Washington Post:

The presidential motorcade ferried the Obamas across Oahu, the state’s most populous island, to the well-to-do oceanfront neighborhood of Kailua, where as in years past they have rented a private home for what this time will be a 17-day holiday vacation.

For the sixth straight year, Obama plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii, gathering with extended family and friends — and, yes, perfecting his golf game.

Obama is right now in Hawaii on another Christmas vacation. His golf games must be the most expensive in history.

In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for the 2013 Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).

This was the first Judicial Watch FOIA request about Obama’s security costs the Secret Service has answered since July, 2014.

Our efforts investigating Obama travel began back in 2009 when we obtained the Secret Service costs of the Obama’s “date night” in New York City.

Click here for our various Obama travel exposés.

Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests. The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch. The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.

It seems our lawsuits finally got the attention of the Secret Service. It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers for just one of Obama’s luxury Christmas vacation. The $317,000 in Secret Service expenses are only the tip of the iceberg for the true cost of Obama’s 2013 vacation in Hawaii, which has now skyrocketed to $8,098,060.

It is nice to know that Obama’s “tradition” of Christmas vacations in Hawaii comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.....

How Much Did Obama Hawaii Trip Cost You? - Judicial Watch

I fully expect Vigilante and the rest of those 'outraged' by Obama's vacations while in office to be of course just as outraged by Trump's vacation. How many millions will the 'hard working tax paying citizens of the United States many of whom don't even get vacation' have to pay?
It is nice to know that Trump's tradition of Christmas vacations in Florida comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.
Donald Trump Planning To Start A 16-Day Vacation At Mar-A-Lago The Same Day The Government Would Shut Down

Just to be truly honest- I don't expect any of those Birthers and Obama attackers or any of those who attacked Obama for his vacations to give a damn about the taxpayer money spent on Trump's vacations. That would require honesty and integrity.

The details surrounding vacations and leisure spending by presidents are no longer a concern of USMB "conservatives".

It's all good. Being president is a demanding job. And the office holder must be free to relax whenever and wherever he pleases.

That’s true. I wish the entire topic would just go away.

Until then; that 90,000 hotel bill ran up by Melanianaana or whatever her name is….lol

My tongue was practically poking through my cheek when I typed that last paragraph.

The topic is legit. Trump is a grifter.

Yeah, when a President relaxes by going skiing at Breckenridge or visiting the Grand Canyon or LegoLand, I’ll believe that the president whomever she/he is….is NOT a grifter. The Obama’s flew to Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard because they could for a greatly reduced costs. Just like the Trumps are doing and just like most other Presidents of my life have done.

Sorry. Trump is not normal. He works less and charges more for his leisure....with his business doing the invoicing...than any other president.

 

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I fully expect Vigilante and the rest of those 'outraged' by Obama's vacations while in office to be of course just as outraged by Trump's vacation. How many millions will the 'hard working tax paying citizens of the United States many of whom don't even get vacation' have to pay?
It is nice to know that Trump's tradition of Christmas vacations in Florida comes courtesy of overburdened taxpayers.
Donald Trump Planning To Start A 16-Day Vacation At Mar-A-Lago The Same Day The Government Would Shut Down

Just to be truly honest- I don't expect any of those Birthers and Obama attackers or any of those who attacked Obama for his vacations to give a damn about the taxpayer money spent on Trump's vacations. That would require honesty and integrity.

The details surrounding vacations and leisure spending by presidents are no longer a concern of USMB "conservatives".

It's all good. Being president is a demanding job. And the office holder must be free to relax whenever and wherever he pleases.

That’s true. I wish the entire topic would just go away.

Until then; that 90,000 hotel bill ran up by Melanianaana or whatever her name is….lol

My tongue was practically poking through my cheek when I typed that last paragraph.

The topic is legit. Trump is a grifter.

Yeah, when a President relaxes by going skiing at Breckenridge or visiting the Grand Canyon or LegoLand, I’ll believe that the president whomever she/he is….is NOT a grifter. The Obama’s flew to Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard because they could for a greatly reduced costs. Just like the Trumps are doing and just like most other Presidents of my life have done.

Sorry. Trump is not normal. He works less and charges more for his leisure....with his business doing the invoicing...than any other president.

That's probably true.