Summary
In early January, Eric Trump took a trip to Uruguay to check progress on an unfinished Trump tower. About a month later, he was in the Dominican Republic, seeing whether an earlier resort project could be revived. He joined his brother, Donald Jr., a couple of weeks later at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a Trump-branded golf course in Dubai. Then the two popped up earlier last week in Vancouver, Canada, for the opening of a new Trump hotel.
Since Donald Trump became president, his sons’ business travel has became much more complicated and expensive, especially when the travel is overseas, says Brendan Doherty, a U.S. Naval Academy professor who has tracked presidential travel for more than a decade. He says the president’s sons are guaranteed round-the-clock Secret Service protection. Overseas trips usually involve coordination with local security forces, and often, U.S. embassies.
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Robert Gordon, a law professor at Stanford University who specializes in legal history and ethics, doesn’t dispute the need for Secret Service protection of the president’s family, but he says Trump’s sons should start paying for it themselves if they’re using it while on private business.
“Given that this is supplied to them free by the government, shouldn’t they exercise a little common sense and restraint in how far they use this perk?” he says.
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