The U.S. Secret Service paid more than $250,000 to President Donald Trump’s private businesses in just the first five months of Trump’s presidency – paying the president’s company an average of nearly $2,000 per day, according to Secret Service records.
Those records, obtained by the group Property of the People after an open-records lawsuit, detail some of the revenue that Trump derives from the U.S. taxpayer.
The president has set up an extraordinary arrangement: he kept ownership of his businesses – and then visited them repeatedly, bringing along aides and security officials and charging the government for what they bought.

Reaction and analysis from former CIA officer Buck Sexton and former Schumer aide Chris Hahn.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday requesting documents related to former vice president Joe Biden and his communications with Ukrainian officials, a step seen as a GOP effort to counter the House impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump.
The inquiry by Graham, R-S.C., is focused on any calls Biden may have had with Petro Poroshenko, then the Ukrainian president, regarding the firing of the country’s top prosecutor, as well as any that referenced an investigation of Burisma, the Ukrainian natural-gas company that employed Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

The IDF and Border Police have deployed extra units in the city of Chevron secure this year’s ‘Chevron Shabbos’, as tens of thousands of Israelis head to the ancient city for what has become a popular annual pilgrimage.
Last year, more than 40,000 Jews stayed in Chevron for Shabbos Chayeiu Sorah, and similar numbers are expected to visit this weekend.
The entire Meoras Hamachpela complex will be open to Jewish visitors during Shabbos. For most of the year, most of the complex is reserved for Muslim prayer services, with Jewish access limited to a single hall.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s indictment is expected to sharpen the battle lines in Israel’s already deadlocked political system and could test the loyalty of his right-wing allies, Israeli commentators said Friday. The serious corruption charges announced Thursday appear to have dashed already slim hopes for a unity government following September’s elections, paving […]

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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan details what he and his GOP colleagues have learned from the last five days of public impeachment inquiry proceedings. Plus, Bret Baier confronts Jordan on his seeming distaste for jackets.
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