Room rentals, resort fees and furniture removal: How Trump?s company charged the U.S. government more than $900,000

The agency was paying for rooms on nights when Trump wasn’t even visiting — to be ready just in case Trump decided to go, one former Trump administration official said.Trump has now visited his own properties 271 times as president, according to a Washington Post tally — including a visit Thursday, when he met with GOP donors at his D.C. hotel.Through these trips, Trump has brought the Trump Organization a stream of private revenue from federal agencies and GOP campaign groups. In addition to the rentals at Mar-a-Lago, the documents show that the Trump Organization charged daily “resort fees” to Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Pence in Las Vegas and in another instance asked agents to pay a $1,300 “furniture removal charge” during a presidential visit to a Trump resort in Scotland.In addition, campaign finance records have provided new details about the payments the Trump Organization received from GOP groups, as a result of the 37 instances in which Trump headlined a political event at one of his properties. And the end of his literal isolation also ended his financial isolation: Trump’s visit brought the club a new, deep-pocketed customer.On that trip, the Secret Service reserved a house, a cottage, two suites and two hotel rooms from the club to guard the president, according to newly released documents. Instead, the Trump Organization charged rates as high as $650 per night for rooms at Mar-a-Lago and $17,000 per month for a cottage at President Trump’s club in Bedminster, N.J., according to previously released federal receipts and two people who have seen nonpublic records.The newly obtained federal records showed other instances in which the Trump Organization charged the government rates far above what Eric Trump claimed.In early 2017, for instance, Pence visited Las Vegas to speak to a Republican Jewish Coalition gathering. It is unclear what nightly room rate the agents were charged — the Secret Service redacted that information before releasing the receipts.Trump Jr. did not respond to requests for comment.“The Secret Service is always there,” said one former employee at the Trump hotel in Washington.