Frank Ripkoski

THIS IS RIDICULOUS: Taxpayers just got stuck with a $93,000 hotel bill so Secret Service agents could stay at two five-star resorts in Marrakech while Ivanka Trump celebrated her 45th birthday in Morocco. And that’s just the rooms. It doesn’t include the agents’ flights, meals, cars or salaries. Federal contracting records dug up by the Daily Mail show a $59,543 contract for the five-star Sofitel Marrakech ahead of a “VVIP” arrival. The next day came a $33,457 contract for a Secret Service team at La Mamounia, a palace hotel where private villas can run more than $8,600 a night. The records don’t name her. But she was the only Secret Service protectee known to be in Morocco at the time, and she was photographed strolling through the old city the day before her birthday. She doesn’t have a government job. She’s the president’s adult daughter on a private birthday getaway, and you’re picking up the tab. Her camp’s defense? A source close to the family said Iran had threatened to kill her, so wouldn’t you want the best protection possible? Nobody’s saying her agents should sleep in a hostel. But nobody made her fly to Marrakech for her birthday either. This family has always treated the Secret Service like a revenue stream. During his first term, Don the Con’s own resorts billed the Secret Service for the rooms its agents stayed in. Now he serves them $30 hotdogs paid for by you. Working families are cutting back at the grocery store, and the Grifter-in-Chief’s daughter is celebrating in a palace on your dime. ~Notice News