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The Trumps’ $100,000 toilet bill

“A presidential trip to a South American resort town turned into a kind ofVegas bachelor party, complete with heavy drinking and prostitutes”

The Roman satirist Juvenal once pointed out that it was pointless for jealous husbands to keep their wives under constant guard because there was no guarantee that the guards themselves could be trusted. It’s probably safe to say thatby Carol Leonnig, says Ashley Parker in The Washington Post. The book details the rumours and gossip about romantic relationships between Trump family members and their security agents, and “chronicles the successes, missteps and evolution of the agency tasked with protecting the American president”. The author first reported on the agency for The Washington Post in 2012, when “a dozen agents and officers” stood accused of turning a presidential trip to a South American resort town into a kind of “Vegas bachelor party, complete with heavy drinking and prostitutes”.

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